Our Mission

DRINET is a research environment for collecting and disseminating local to regional scale drought information while interoperating with other resources and tools. The disseminated information via the DRINET will be based on a comprehensive evaluation of causal factors for short and long term droughts, as well as on a standardization of data formats and collection practices. It thus lays the foundation for investigating and providing improved drought risk and trigger indicators.

Why DRINET

The DRINET project will engage diverse stakeholders to collect, publish drought related information and build community acceptance of local and regional data collection/compilation processes and data formats. To-date, many gaps hamper efforts at forecasting droughts and mitigating their impact. This work will foster increased communication and cross-synthesis of data for diverse applications. Consequently, DRINET will be able to provide a solid basis for drought assessment. Further, it will serve the purpose of an educational tool, and draw on visualization capabilities to better explain, for example, the role of precipitation and stream flow patterns on droughts.

DRINET is also home for researchers, students to publish their own models and tools, datasets, analysis,visualization, training and educational materials for studying droughts. Tools published at the web site can be run from a web browser.

Join Us

Take a tour of our web site and see how you can use our infrastructure to further your own research and educational activities. Create your own account. It's free and will give you access to our online simulation tools and other features. Become a contributor by uploading your own presentations and simulation tools for others to share. Ask a question in our community forum, and let the community help you out.