Description
The Total Water Storage (TWS) Anomaly indicator that is implemented in the Copernicus Global Drought Observatory (GDO) is used for determining the occurrence of long-term hydrological drought conditions, which arise when the TWS reaches values lower than usual. This quantity is often used as a proxy of groundwater drought. The TWS Anomaly indicator in GDO is computed as anomalies of GRACE-derived TWS data - which are produced by the Center for Space Research (CSR) at the University of Texas at Austin, as scaled by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (available at: https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/tellus/L3/gracefo/land_mass/RL06/).
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Contributors
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- EDO European and Global Drought Observatories
How to cite
European and Global Drought Observatories, EDO (2002): GDO GRACE Total Water Storage Anomaly (version 1.1.0). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/0fd62e28-241f-472c-8966-98744920e181
Keywords
CEMS GRACE Copernicus Groundwater European Drought Observatory (EDO) Global Drought Observatory (GDO)
Data access
This Factsheet provides a detailed technical description of the indicator Total Water Storage (TWS) Anomaly, which is implemented in the Copernicus Global Drought Observatory (GDO), and used for detecting and monitoring long-term hydrological drought conditions
Publications
Geographic areas
Spatial coverage
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| WKT | POLYGON((-180 90,180 90,180 -90,-180 -90,-180 90)) |
Temporal coverage
| From date | To date |
|---|---|
| 2012-04-01 | N/A |
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2020-12-09
- Modified date
- 2021-08-26
- Issued date
- 2002-04-01
- Landing page
- https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gdo/
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Environment
- Update frequency
- monthly
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/0fd62e28-241f-472c-8966-98744920e181
- Popularity
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