Developing a drought monitoring and sub-seasonal to seasonal forecast system for South Asia

Yifan Zhou1, Benjamin Zaitchik2, Mir Abdul Matin3, Faisal M. Qamer4, Ryan Zamora2, Sujay V Kumar5, Jim Nelson6, Kiran Shakya7 and Riley Hales8, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Geospatial Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States, (7)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (8)Brigham Young University, Civil & Environmental, Provo, UT, United States