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Climate Services for Coping with Climate Change, Drought, and
Extreme Heat in the México-U.S. Border Region
Figure 2. Cover page of the Rio Grande|Bravo Climate Impacts and
Outlook online bulletin (Río Grande|Bravo Impactos Climáticos y
Perspectivas), October, 2017. Website:
Source: CLIMAS, University of Arizona.
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component than other Pilot activities. The initial impetus for the
impacts initiative was to garner transboundary regional impacts
reporting, similar to reports delivered to U.S. platforms, like the
National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) Drought Impacts
Reporter (Smith
et al.,
, 2014), and the CoCoRaHS network, in order
to ground truth drought status derived from hydrometeorological
observations and drought indices. Consistent drought impacts
reporting has been elusive, even in the best of circumstances
(e.g., Meadow
et al.,
2013), due to turnover in observers, lack of
