McNally, A., Jacob, J., Arsenault, K., Slinski, K., Sarmiento, D. P., Hoell, A., Pervez, S., Rowland, J., Budde, M., Kumar, S., Peters-Lidard, C., and Verdin, J.

Central Asia Extended Outlook: Reservoir water levels are low with a possible drought looming, 2021. https://blog.chc.ucsb.edu/?p=1044

Elevated chances of drought in March to May 2022 rainy season in East Africa,  https://blog.chc.ucsb.edu/?p=1008.

Famine Early Warning Systems Network Land Data Assimilation System (FLDAS) global data are now publicly available on Climate Engine.

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

McNally, A., et.al. 2019, Water, 11(10), 1968; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11101968

When Drought Threatens Crops: NASA’s Role in Famine Warnings

July 1, 2019

East Africa drought shown through soil moisture anomalies from the FEWS NET LDAS (FLDAS) system.

NASA image of the day (May 31, 2019) 

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