GIDMAPS: A DROUGHT TIME MACHINE BY Farshad Momtaz A DROUGHT TIME MACHINE  Team members  What is drought?  Why does drought matter?  What does GIDMaPS do?  How does GIDMaPS work?  A look into the future  Sponsors  More information TEAM MEMBERS  Assistant Professor Amir AghaKouchak, PhD  Shahrbanou Madadgar, PhD  Z. Hao, PhD  Ali Mehran, PhD Candidate  Alireza Farahmand, PhD Student  Omid Mazdiyasni, PhD Student WHAT IS DROUGHT?  Drought: Deficiency in Water Supply  Meteorological  Precipitation  Agricultural  Soil Moisture WHY DOES DROUGHT MATTER?  Loss of crop yields and livestock  Increase in global food prices  Famine and loss of life  Climate extreme with largest affect on population  Economic damage of $6 - $8 Billion/Year HOW TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM?!  US Drought Monitoring System  Drought Monitor for only the United States  Human input and precipitation  GIDMaPS GIDMAPS  Global Integrated Drought Monitoring and Prediction System  Drought Monitoring  Drought Prediction  The only drought prediction system currently available  Current conditions and long term climatological data to predict future droughts HOW DOES IT WORK? • Multivariate Standardized Drought Index Data Scan (NASA Satellites) NASA Servers GIDMaPS Servers • Standardized Precipitation Index • Standardized Soil Moisture Index Drought and Prediction algorithm Maps! OUTCOME Exceptional Wetness Extreme drought GIDMAPS WEB A picture of a product is worth more than a thousand words!! GIDMAPS MOBILE FUTURE OF DROUGHT  GIDMaPS can help fight drought  Drought Monitoring  Drought Prediction  Faster data availability  More accurate predictions MORE INFORMATION  Momtaz F., Nakhjiri N., AghaKouchak A., 2014, Toward a Drought Cyberinfrastructure System, Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 95(22), 182-183, doi:10.1002/2014EO220002.  Hao Z., AghaKouchak A., Nakhjiri N., Farahmand A., 2014, Global Integrated Drought Monitoring and Prediction System, Scientific Data, 1:140001, 1-10, doi: 10.1038/sdata.2014.1.  Hao Z., AghaKouchak A., 2014, A Nonparametric Multivariate Multi-Index Drought Monitoring Framework, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15, 89-101, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-120160.1.  Hao Z., AghaKouchak A., 2013a, Multivariate Standardized Drought Index: A Parametric Multi-Index Model, Advances in Water Resources, 57, 12-18, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.03.009.  AghaKouchak A., and Nakhjiri N., 2012, A Near Real-Time Satellite-Based Global Drought Climate Data Record, Environmental Research Letters, 7(4), 044037, doi:10.1088/17489326/7/4/044037. SPONSORS THANK YOU