Merge pull request #48 from aaarcher-usgs/drought-event-wording

Drought event wording

Author: aaarcher-usgs

.gitignore

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ _targets
 */out/*
 !*/out/CONUS_1951_2020/
 */out/CONUS_1951_2020/*
+*dist/
 
 # Eventually ignore images (can build locally with R and then put on S3)
 # for now, commit them.

src/assets/text/droughtAnnotations_desktop.js

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ export default {
       {
         id: '1930s',
         date: '1932-09-01',
-        text: 'Usually known for its flooding, the worst drought during this period was on the Red River of the North in Fargo, ND, which lasted over 1,000 days.',
+        text: 'Usually known for its flooding, the worst streamflow drought event during this period was on the Red River of the North in Fargo, ND, which lasted over 1,000 days.',
         desktop_x_offset_per: 60,
         desktop_text_anchor: 'start',
         desktop_text_width: 250
@@ -59,23 +59,23 @@ export default {
       {
         id: '1950s',
         date: '1958-06-01',
-        text: 'The most severe drought in this period was near San Antonio, TX.',
+        text: 'The most severe streamflow drought event in this period was near San Antonio, TX.',
         desktop_x_offset_per: 63,
         desktop_text_anchor: 'start',
         desktop_text_width: 250
       },
       {
         id: '1960s-fact',
         date: '1968-01-01',
-        text: 'The 3 most severe droughts in this period all happened on Long Island, NY.',
+        text: 'The 3 most severe streamflow drought events in this period all happened on Long Island, NY.',
         desktop_x_offset_per: 60,
         desktop_text_anchor: 'start',
         desktop_text_width: 250
       },
       {
         id: '1970s-fact',
         date: '1975-06-01',
-        text: 'California, Iowa, and Minnesota together had 67% of the droughts in this period.',
+        text: 'California, Iowa, and Minnesota together had 67% of the streamflow drought events in this period.',
         desktop_x_offset_per: 60,
         desktop_text_anchor: 'start',
         desktop_text_width: 250
@@ -92,15 +92,15 @@ export default {
       {
         id: '1980s-fact',
         date: '1987-07-01',
-        text: 'This drought on the Carmel River near Seaside, CA, lasted almost 4 years!',
+        text: 'This streamflow drought event on the Carmel River near Seaside, CA, lasted almost 4 years!',
         desktop_x_offset_per: 58,
         desktop_text_anchor: 'start',
         desktop_text_width: 250
       },      
       {
         id: '2000s-fact1',
         date: '2000-06-01',
-        text: 'Over 31% of the 2,000 most severe droughts happened during this period.',
+        text: 'Over 31% of the 2,000 most severe streamflow drought events happened during this period.',
         desktop_x_offset_per: 62,
         desktop_text_anchor: 'start',
         desktop_text_width: 250
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ export default {
       {
         id: '2000s',
         date: '2009-01-01',
-        text: 'The longest drought of all was near Tampa, FL, and lasted over 6 years!',
+        text: 'The longest streamflow drought event from 1920-2020 was near Tampa, FL, and lasted over 6 years!',
         desktop_x_offset_per: 62,
         desktop_text_anchor: 'start',
         desktop_text_width: 250

src/assets/text/droughtAnnotations_mobile.js

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ export default {
       {
         id: '1970s_1', // Unique id for annotation - order and # value don't matter - annotations are later sorted by start_date
         date: '1976-03-01', // Date marking start of annotation. Determines y trigger start position on deskop and order
-        text: 'The 1976-1977 drought was short, so it is not considered one of the five major drought events in the last 100 years. But this two-year drought caused agricultural losses and hydropower shortages across much of the western U.S.', // Narrative text
+        text: 'The 1976-1977 drought was short, so it is not considered one of the five major drought periods in the last 100 years. But this two-year drought caused agricultural losses and hydropower shortages across much of the western U.S.', // Narrative text
         quote: false,
         mobile_x_offset_per: 35
       },
@@ -112,13 +112,13 @@ export default {
       {
         id: 'turn_of_century_1',
         date: '2000-03-15',
-        text: 'Turn-of-the-Century Drought: The turn-of-the-century drought is one of the worst droughts to hit the southwestern U.S. in the last 1,200 years. Like previous droughts, low amounts of rain led to big drops in available water, but high temperatures drove the loss of soil moisture during this most recent drought (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7904" target="_blank">McCabe et al. 2022</a>).',
+        text: 'Turn-of-the-Century Drought: The turn-of-the-century drought was one of the worst drought periods to hit the southwestern U.S. in the last 1,200 years. Like previous droughts, low amounts of rain led to big drops in available water, but high temperatures drove the loss of soil moisture during this most recent drought (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7904" target="_blank">McCabe et al. 2022</a>).',
         mobile_x_offset_per: 25
       },
       {
         id: 'turn_of_century_2',
         date: '2011-07-01',
-        text: 'The national-level drought event ended in 2015, but the turn-of-the-century drought in the southwestern U.S. has continued. The USGS is working with partners to understand this ongoing drought and to predict and communicate drought risk (<a href="https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/image-week-lake-powell-and-megadrought" target="_blank">Video of drought at Lake Powell</a>).',
+        text: 'The national-level drought period ended in 2015, but the turn-of-the-century drought in the southwestern U.S. has continued. The USGS is working with partners to understand this ongoing drought and to predict and communicate drought risk (<a href="https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/image-week-lake-powell-and-megadrought" target="_blank">Video of drought at Lake Powell</a>).',
         mobile_x_offset_per: 85
       }
     ]

src/assets/text/droughtNarrations_desktop.js

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ export default {
         title: '1970s Drought (1976 - 1978)',
         start_date: '1976-05-01',
         end_date: '1979-03-01',
-        text: 'The 1976-1977 drought was short, so it is not considered one of the five major drought events in the last 100 years. But this two-year drought caused agricultural losses and hydropower shortages across much of the western U.S.',
+        text: 'The 1976-1977 drought was short, so it is not considered one of the five major drought periods in the last 100 years. But this two-year drought caused agricultural losses and hydropower shortages across much of the western U.S.',
         quote: 'There is no assurance that the next drought is not just beyond the horizon. We can be assured, however, that drought will return, and, considering the greater needs of that future time, its impact, unless prepared for, will be much greater.',
         quote_source: '<a href="https://cawaterlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Drought-1976-77.pdf" target="_blank">Ronald B. Robie, CA Department of Water Resources, 1978</a>',
         img_source: 'drought_period_stations_1976.png',
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ export default {
         title: 'Turn-of-the-Century (1999 - 2015)',
         start_date: '1999-09-01',
         end_date: '2009-09-01',
-        text: 'This was one of the worst droughts to hit the southwestern U.S. in the last 1,200 years. Like previous droughts, low amounts of rain led to big drops in available water, but high temperatures drove the loss of soil moisture during this most recent drought (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7904" target="_blank">McCabe et al. 2022</a>). ',
+        text: 'This was one of the worst drought periods to hit the southwestern U.S. in the last 1,200 years. Like previous droughts, low amounts of rain led to big drops in available water, but high temperatures drove the loss of soil moisture during this most recent drought (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7904" target="_blank">McCabe et al. 2022</a>). ',
         quote: '2000-2021 ranks as the driest 22-year period since at least 800 CE.',
         quote_source: '<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01290-z" target="_blank">A. Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook, and Jason E. Smerdon, 2022</a>',
         img_source: 'drought_period_stations_1999.png',
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ export default {
         title: 'Turn-of-the-Century (1999 - 2015)',
         start_date: '2009-09-01',
         end_date: '2017-09-30',
-        text: 'The national-level drought event ended in 2015, but the turn-of-the-century drought in the southwestern U.S. has continued. The USGS is working with partners to understand this ongoing drought and to predict and communicate drought risk (<a href="https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/image-week-lake-powell-and-megadrought" target="_blank">Video of drought at Lake Powell</a>).',
+        text: 'The national-level drought period ended in 2015, but the turn-of-the-century drought in the southwestern U.S. has continued. The USGS is working with partners to understand this ongoing drought and to predict and communicate drought risk (<a href="https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/image-week-lake-powell-and-megadrought" target="_blank">Video of drought at Lake Powell</a>).',
         quote: '2000-2021 ranks as the driest 22-year period since at least 800 CE.',
         quote_source: '<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01290-z" target="_blank">A. Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook, and Jason E. Smerdon, 2022</a>',
         img_source: 'drought_period_stations_1999.png',

src/components/DroughtHistory.vue

@@ -8,21 +8,21 @@
         <p
           v-if="!mobileView"
         >
-          The U.S. has experienced thousands of droughts that have caused water-related problems for humans and ecosystems. But in the last 100 years, five major drought events stand out in their effects on agriculture, wildfires, and streamflow (<a
+          The U.S. has a long history of droughts that have caused water-related problems for humans and ecosystems. But in the last 100 years, five periods of drought stand out in their effects on agriculture, wildfires, and streamflow (<a
             href="https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7904"
             target="_blank"
-          >McCabe et al. 2022</a>). Scroll through the timeline to see when and where these major drought events occurred at USGS streamgages (<a
+          >McCabe et al. 2022</a>). Scroll through the timeline to see when and where these major drought periods occurred at USGS streamgages (<a
             href="https://dashboard.waterdata.usgs.gov/"
             target="_blank"
           >USGS Streamgage Network</a>) across the lower 48 states.
         </p>
         <p
           v-if="mobileView"
         >
-          The U.S. has experienced thousands of droughts. But in the last 100 years, five major drought events stand out in their effects on agriculture, wildfires, and streamflow (<a
+          The U.S. has a long history of droughts. But in the last 100 years, five periods of drought stand out in their effects on agriculture, wildfires, and streamflow (<a
             href="https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7904"
             target="_blank"
-          >McCabe et al. 2022</a>). Scroll through the timeline to see when and where these major droughts occurred at <a
+          >McCabe et al. 2022</a>). Scroll through the timeline to see when and where these major drought periods occurred at <a
             href="https://dashboard.waterdata.usgs.gov/"
             target="_blank"
           >USGS streamgages</a> across the lower 48 states.
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     >
       <h3>Drought in Regions of the Conterminous U.S.</h3>
       <p>
-        Droughts happen in every region of the U.S. These charts show the same 2,000 drought events as the national timeline above, but now they are shown by <a
+        Droughts happen in every region of the U.S. These charts show the same 2,000 streamflow drought events as the national timeline above, but now they are shown by <a
           href="https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-adaptation-science-centers"
           target="_blank"
         >Climate Adaptation Science Center</a> regions. Where the orange violin-like shapes are wider, more streamgages were in drought at one time in that region.
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@
             href="https://labs.waterdata.usgs.gov/visualizations/what-is-drought/index.html#/"
             target="_blank"
           >What is Streamflow Drought?</a>
-          ). The red line in this image represents a variable threshold, which means that normal streamflow levels change through the year. For our timeline visualization, we identified streamflow droughts in the lower 48 states that were below the 20% variable 7-day threshold – in other words, these drought events were all moderate, severe, extreme, or exceptional (<a
+          ). The red line in this image represents a variable threshold, which means that normal streamflow levels change through the year. For our timeline visualization, we identified streamflow drought events in the lower 48 states that were below the 20% variable 7-day threshold – in other words, these drought events were all moderate, severe, extreme, or exceptional (<a
             href="https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/"
             target="_blank"
           >U.S. Drought Monitor Map</a>). We excluded states and regions outside of the conterminous U.S. because of a lack of data.
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
           id="methods3"
           class="methods_text"
         >
-          Of all the droughts identified in this dataset from 1920 to 2020, we selected the 2,000 most severe droughts to build this timeline. Streamflow drought severity is a measure of how long conditions last through time (duration) and how low streamflow is compared to normal (intensity) (<a
+          Of all the droughts identified in this dataset from 1920 to 2020, we selected the 2,000 most severe streamflow drought events to build this timeline. Streamflow drought severity is a measure of how long conditions last through time (duration) and how low streamflow is compared to normal (intensity) (<a
             href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR031930"
             target="_blank"
           >Hammond et al. 2022</a>).