20240813 06463600 1.0 FALSE CMOR_USDM_2021 002 Projected GCS_WGS_1984 Linear Unit: Meter (1.000000) WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere <ProjectedCoordinateSystem xsi:type='typens:ProjectedCoordinateSystem' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:typens='http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/3.3.0'><WKT>PROJCS["WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",0.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",0.0],PARAMETER["Auxiliary_Sphere_Type",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0],AUTHORITY["EPSG",3857]]</WKT><XOrigin>-20037700</XOrigin><YOrigin>-30241100</YOrigin><XYScale>10000</XYScale><ZOrigin>-100000</ZOrigin><ZScale>10000</ZScale><MOrigin>-100000</MOrigin><MScale>10000</MScale><XYTolerance>0.001</XYTolerance><ZTolerance>0.001</ZTolerance><MTolerance>0.001</MTolerance><HighPrecision>true</HighPrecision><WKID>102100</WKID><LatestWKID>3857</LatestWKID></ProjectedCoordinateSystem> 20240814 05341800 20240814 05341800 Esri ArcGIS 13.3.0.52636 CMOR_USDM_2021 U.S. Drought Monitor 2021 maps for Condition Monitoring Observer Reports (CMOR). For more information visit: go.unl.edu/cmor_drought.<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:18px; font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-stretch:inherit;'>The U.S. Drought Monitor is a map released every Thursday, showing parts of the U.S. that are in drought. The map uses five classifications: abnormally dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels of drought: moderate (D1), severe (D2), extreme (D3) and exceptional (D4).<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:18px; font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-stretch:inherit;'>The Drought Monitor map identifies areas of drought and labels them by intensity. D1 is the least intense level and D4 the most intense. Drought is defined as a moisture deficit bad enough to have social, environmental or economic effects.<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:18px; font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-stretch:inherit;'>D0 areas are not in drought but are experiencing abnormally dry conditions that could turn into drought or are recovering from drought but are not yet back to normal.<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:18px; font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-stretch:inherit;'>Drought intensity categories are based on:<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:18px; font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-stretch:inherit;'><ul><li>the original five key indicators along with several dozen other objective indicators</li><li>local condition reports and impact reports from more than 450 expert observers around the country.</li><li>drought impacts which subjectively support and validate the indicators used.</li></ul><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:18px; font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-stretch:inherit;'>The Drought Monitor has been a team effort since its inception in 1999, produced jointly by the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The NDMC hosts the web site of the drought monitor and the associated data, and provides the map and data to NOAA, USDA and other agencies. It is freely available at droughtmonitor.unl.edu.<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:18px; font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-stretch:inherit;'>The USDA uses the drought monitor to trigger disaster declarations and eligibility for low-interest loans. The Farm Service Agency uses it to help determine eligibility for their Livestock Forage Program, and the Internal Revenue Service uses it for tax deferral on forced livestock sales due to drought. State, local, tribal and basin-level decision makers use it to trigger drought responses, ideally along with other more local indicators of drought.<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:18px; font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-stretch:inherit;'>The US Drought Monitor is publicly funded and to this end we provide all data and services free of charge to all users. There may be requests that are not possible given workloads, funding and budgeting but all data is freely accessible and free to use. Please give credit to our various partners as this allows us to continue to provide these data and service to the public.<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:18px; font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-stretch:inherit;'>If you reproduce the U.S. Drought Monitor map, please use this wording:<hr /><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:20px; font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-stretch:inherit;'>The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 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