Upper Missouri River Basin Drought Indicators Dashboard

This website provides access to drought indices that are used by the Montana Governor’s Drought and Water Supply Advisory Committee (Monitoring Sub-Committee). All datasets are calculated daily and can be aggregated by watershed and county boundaries. Much of the underlying data in this dashboard is from the gridMET dataset.

The site focuses on providing current drought information using the most current peer-reviewed science, a description of the theoretical basis for a metric, data required for calculation of each index, discussion of the relative strengths and weaknesses of a metric, and validating a metric using on-the-ground observations (soil moisture, streamflow, and groundwater).