The current California drought through EDDI’s eyes: early warning and monitoring of agricultural and hydrologic drought with the new Evaporative Demand Drought Index.

Mike Hobbins1, Daniel McEvoy2, Justin L Huntington3, Andrew W Wood4, Charles Morton3 and James P Verdin5, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States