Near-real Time Daily Drought Monitoring Using Remotely Sensed and In-situ Gridded Precipitation Datasets

Olivier P Prat1, David Coates2, Scott Wilkins1, Denis Willet3, Ronald Leeper2, Brian R Nelson4, Rocky Bilotta5, Steve Ansari6 and George John Huffman7, (1)North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, North Carolina State University, Asheville, United States, (2)North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC, United States, (3)North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Asheville, United States, (4)NOAA Asheville, NCEI/CWC, Asheville, NC, United States, (5)ISciences, LLC/NIDIS, Asheville, NC, United States, (6)NOAA Asheville, NCEI/NIDIS, Asheville, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States