“…To monitor meteorological, agricultural (Sun et al, 2017), and hydrological drought events and their severity, these cyberinfrastructures provide crop vegetation conditions, streamflow, soil moisture deficit, rainfall patterns, real-time data, and warnings with various drought indicators at not only global (Sohn et al, 2012;Deng et al, 2013;Nijssen et al, 2014;, regional, and watershed scale (Shukla et al, 2021) but also semi-arid climatic regions (Vicente-Serrano et al, 2022) around the world. These web platforms also enable weekly, monthly, and seasonal drought-related potential impact reports for agricultural sectors (Rembold et al, 2017) based on different agroclimatic indicators, public health, tourism, livestock (Stone et al, 2019), and other related communities (McCullum et al, 2021). They also use various drought indices, which have different representativeness capacities for different types (meteorological, hydrological, agricultural) of drought including snow .…”