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Climate Outlooks and WebinarsKT Ingram
NIDIS Drought Early Warning System Pilot Review and Future Directions
1-2 December 2011, Lake Lanier Islands, Georgia
Outline• Why we do webinars and outlooks• Accomplishments over the past year• Future needs and opportunities
Why webinars and outlooks• NIDIS conducted a series of
workshops beginning in April 2010o Apalachicola, FL; Pine Mountain,
GA; Stone Mountain, GA; Lake Blackshear, GA
• NIDIS also held an outlook forum in Albany, GA in November 2010
• As ENSO was entering a La Niña phase, participants in these events agreed that we should alert stakeholders to the potential for drought through webinars
Webinar History and Accomplishments
• November 2010: Form committee to design webinars
• Learning from the Upper Colorado NIDIS Pilot
• Series of prototypes• Dry runs• First webinar 21 January
2011 US Drought Monitor, 1 Dec 2011
Webinar format• Introduction• Current drought
status• Conditions that led up
to the current status• Projections• Discussion of impacts• Summary
28-day streamflow, Flint at Bainbridge
Webinar evolution and summary• Based on inputs from
committee members, webinar participants, and communications experts, we have tried to develop a body of information that both gives a full context of the basin, and focuses specifically on the basin Ground water depth, Mitchell Co, GA
USGA 1 Dec 2011
Who has been involved?• The design committee included many in the room today
and others• Webinar standard content providers include:
o Florida Climate Centero US Geological Surveyo Army Corps of Engineerso SE River Forecast Center
• Special content:o UCO-Boulder/CIRESo Tallahassee NWSo FL DEP
Sea surface temperature anomaliesNOAA NESDIS, 1 Dec 2011
Future needs and opportunities• Sustaining the process
o Rely on teams, not individualso Institutionalize webinarso Automate slide production
• Inputs to drought monitor• Enlarge participation• Include media 8-14 day Precipitation
Outlook, 1 Dec 2011NOAA CPC
Thanks!Especially to everyone who has provided content and feedback, and to those who
have participated in the webinars