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Today, the NOAA Climate Program Office’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) program jointly announced $4.9 million in funding for NOAA labs and research partners to improve drought monitoring and prediction in the American West. This research combines $3.1 million in funding from NIDIS and $1.8 million from the

By Zachary H. Hoylman, R. Kyle Bocinsky, and Kelsey G. Jencso, Montana Climate Office at the University of Montana. This article summarizes the study, Drought assessment has been outpaced by climate change: empirical arguments for a paradigm shift, published in Nature Communications. Click on this video for a short presentation on this work. Key Findings Climate change shifts the