Drought Early Warning and the Timing of Range Managers’ Drought Response

Figure 3

Time series showing the average condition depicted by anomalies in the ESI (black line) NLDAS TS (red line) and NLDAS TS (blue line) data sets at weekly intervals from six weeks prior to six weeks after the onset: (a) decreased topsoil moisture, (b) delayed/lack of plant emergence, (c) delayed/lack of plant growth, (d) plant stress, (e) deteriorating range conditions, and (f) decreased forage productivity as reported by the respondents.

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