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The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) shows the unusualness in evaporative demand--the "thirst" of the atmosphere--over a user-specified time window. The EDDI team has recently posted new resources and tools on the updated EDDI homepage to make EDDI maps and data more accessible and usable, complementing the current EDDI maps for the United States (the "Current Conditions" tab on the EDDI homepage):

- EDDI User Manual
- Archive of past EDDI maps back to 1980 ("EDDI Map Archive" tab)
- EDDI time-series tool ("Time Series" tab)

Current EDDI maps for the Intermountain West region are also available via the WWA Intermountain West Climate Dashboard and the NIDIS Drought Summary from the Colorado Climate Summary. A webinar on EDDI given on May 11, 2017 is available here. The EDDI Team includes researchers from NOAA ESRL Physical Sciences Division/CIRES, the Desert Research Institute, and Western Water Assessment.

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More than 130 public sector and nonprofit organizations provide climate services to the eleven western states, yet until now there has been no centralized resource to connect climate information users with the wide array of information and services available. The NOAA Western Region Climate Service Providers Database is a searchable directory of climate service providers in the west that makes climate services easier to find. Its powerful search function allows users to customize their search based on the type of service, the geographic area, stakeholders served, and several additional parameters. It’s a match-making app for the climate world. For more information about this project and initial findings from a landscape assessment of climate providers in the west, please refer to the preliminary analysis report.

Phase II Final Report: https://wwa.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/CSP_Phase2_Report_Final.pdf