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  1. U2U Fact Sheet - October 2012

    17 Oct 2012 | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U fact sheet is a brief handout describing project objectives and participants.

  2. U2U Poster - May 2012

    18 May 2012 | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.

  3. U2U Poster - May 2012

    18 May 2012 | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.

  4. Metadata for Climate Research Unit Time Series (CRU TS) 2.1

    16 May 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao

    The CRU TS 2.1 data-set comprises 1224 monthly grids of observed climate, for the period 1901-2002, and covering the global land surface at 0.5 degree resolution. There are nine climate variables available: daily mean, minimum and maximum temperature, diurnal temperature range, precipitation, wet...

  5. Metadata for Harvested Area and Yields of 175 crops (M3-Crops Data)

    15 May 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Jake R Carlson

    This data collection is composed of land use data sets, generated by combining national, state, and county level census statistics along with a global data set of croplands from countries around the world for the year 2000. The resulting land use data sets depict circa the year 2000 the...

  6. Metadata for Indiana Stream Flow Data

    15 May 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Jake R Carlson

    The United States Geological Survey (USGS) daily streamflow dataset is the source of this dataset. Streamflow data are subjected to human interference, and therefore data contain both natural and regulated flows. This practice does not cause serious problems in flood frequency analysis (flows are...

  7. Metadata for Historical Averages of Precipitation and Temperature Data

    15 May 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Jake R Carlson

    This dataset is composed of plots of historical time series of average precipitation (measured in inches) and temperature (measured in fahrenheit degrees) data with five year tendencies for each climate division (CD) within Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Data are...

  8. Metadata for Indiana Hourly Precipitation Data (NCDC)

    15 May 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Jake R Carlson

    This dataset contains hourly precipitation data from 144 COOP raingagues located in Indiana (NCDC TD3240 dataset). The main purpose of this dataset is to provide for at-site rainfall frequency analysis. Several data processing manners were taken:(1) For nearby stations with non-overlapping...

  9. U2U Objective 2 Fact Sheet

    24 Jan 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U Objective 2 Fact Sheet briefly describes the planned and ongoing research activities, as well as participants, of the Objective 2 Working Group.

  10. U2U Objective 1 Fact Sheet

    24 Jan 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U Objective 1 Fact Sheet briefly describes the planned and ongoing research activities, as well as participants, of the Objective 1 Working Group.

  11. U2U Fact Sheet - October 2011

    28 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U fact sheet is a brief handout describing project objectives and participants.

  12. Evaluation Reports

    18 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Whitney Meredith

    An evaluation team perodically examines our progress towards defined project objectives. During year 1, three such evaluations are scheduled. As these are completed, the report will be added to this resource.

  13. Effects of Drought on Water Quality in Streams

    08 Aug 2011 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Rashad Riley, Indrajeet Chaubey, Lan Zhao

    A research poster presented at the DDAD2011 symposium. It describes the preliminary results of a study on drought impact on water quality conducted over the Massie Creek sub-watershed in Ohio. The Messie Creek data is now available on DRINET and access is through the iDATA tool.Rashad Riley1,...

  14. DURI Summer Intern Project: Drought related data and tools: development and integration

    08 Aug 2011 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Yuan Xia

    A poster presented at the DURI student recognition luncheon, July 28, 2011. Yuan Xia, a junior from Computer Science, Purdue University, completed his summer internship with the Scientific Solutions group at RCAC. He helped integrated various maps and datasets into the DRINET. The live page can...

  15. U2U Overview Presentation

    03 Aug 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy

    This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) research project. Last updated Nov. 1, 2011.

  16. U2U Poster - July 2011

    22 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy

    This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.Thank you to our University of Wisconsin colleagues...

  17. U2U Poster - July 2011

    22 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy

    This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.Thank you to our University of Wisconsin colleagues...

  18. A seasonal-scale climatological analysis correlating spring tornadic activity with antecedent fall–winter drought in the southeastern United States

    14 Jun 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Dev Niyogi

    Using rain gauge and satellite-based rainfall climatologies and the NOAA Storm PredictionCenter tornado database (1952–2007), this study found a statistically significant tendency forfall–winter drought conditions to be correlated with below-normal tornado days the followingspring in north...

  19. A copula-based joint deficit index for droughts

    31 Mar 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rao S Govindaraju

    Current drought information is based on indices that do not capture the joint behaviors of hydrologic variables. To address this limitation, the potential of copulas in characterizing droughts from multiplevariables is explored in this study. Starting from the standardized index (SI) algorithm, a...

  20. Metadata and DRINET

    11 Dec 2009 | Online Presentations

    Jake Carlson, Purdue University Libraries