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

Distribution of all FLDAS products from the NASA GES DISC by calendar year:

Users of FLDAS datasets are encouraged to join the LDAS mailing list for updates on new data releases, new data services, data reprocessing, and data delays or outages.

01/01/2016 FLDAS_A (RFE2+GDAS) daily data with one-day latency available on GES DISC and GIOVANNI

02/03/2017 FEWS NET special report: Illustrating the extent and severity of the 2016 Horn of Africa drought http://www.fews.net/east-africa/special-report/february-3-2017

02/14/2017 McNally, Amy, et al. "A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications." Scientific Data 4 (2017).

6/23/2017 new information added re: Central Asia snow modeling