2019 Short Rains in East Africa Among the Wettest on Historical Record

6 Jan 2020: NCA-LDAS v2.0 trends data are now publicly available from the NASA GES DISC.

McNally, A., et.al.: Acute Water-Scarcity Monitoring for Africa, Water, 11(10), 1968, doi: 10.3390/w11101968, 2019.

5 Sep 2019: NCA-LDAS v2.0 Noah-3.3 LSM datasets are now publicly available from the NASA GES DISC.

30 July 2019: Two papers describing NCA-LDAS are published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology:

07/01/2019 When Drought Threatens Crops: NASA’s Role in Famine Warnings

05/31/2019 NASA image of the day: East Africa drought shown through soil moisture anomalies from the FEWS NET LDAS (FLDAS) system.

05/22/2019 Afghanistan season monitor includes figures (2 & 3) from FLDAS/LIS Central Asia modeling 

3/21/2019 FLDAS on Earth Observatory: Southern Africa drought

Distribution of all NCA-LDAS products from the NASA GES DISC by calendar year: