Drought events based on SPEI 3 version 1.0

Description

Drought events based on Standard Precipitation and Evaporation Index for 3 months

Contact

Email: JRC-EMS-DROUGHT (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

European Drought Observatory, EDO

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2017): Drought events based on SPEI 3 version 1.0. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/12a852fe-8a43-4d04-9c75-1d3ef2ac673c

Keywords

Climate change Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) Drought events European Drought Observatory (EDO) Global database Meteorological drought SPEI Global Drought Observatory (GDO)

Data access

Drought events based on SPEI 3 from 1951 to 2016 by macroregions (csv)

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Drought events based on SPEI 3 from 1951 to 2016 by countries (csv)

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Countries (dbf)

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URL

To be joined with field CTY_CODE of the provided csv files (ISO_A3 <=>CTY_CODE).

Macroregions (dbf)

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URL

Customized version defined in Iturbide, M., Gutiérrez, J. M., Alves, L. M., Bedia, J., Cerezo-Mota, R., Cimadevilla, E., ... & Hauser, M. (2020). An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets. Earth System Science Data, 12(4), 2959-2970. To be joined with field MGN_CODE of the provided csv files (cod <=> MGN_CODE).

Standardised Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index SPEI 3 Months (NetCDF)

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Publications

Publication

A new global database of meteorological drought events from 1951 to 2016

Spinoni, J., Barbosa, P., De Jager, A., McCormick, N., Naumann, G., Vogt, J. V., ... & Mazzeschi, M. (2019). A new global database of meteorological drought events from 1951 to 2016. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 22, 100593

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Geographic areas

World

Spatial coverage

GML

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GML

<gml:Polygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2">  <gml:exterior>    <gml:LinearRing>      <gml:posList>-180 90 180 90 180 -90 -180 -90 -180 90</gml:posList>    </gml:LinearRing>  </gml:exterior></gml:Polygon>

WKT

POLYGON ((-180 90, 180 90, 180 -90, -180 -90, -180 90))

Temporal coverage

From date	To date
1951-01-01	2016-01-01

Additional information

Published by: European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date: 2020-07-14
Modified date: 2025-04-08
Issued date: 2017-07-14
Landing page: https://drought.emergency.copernicus.eu/
Language(s): English
Data theme(s): Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Environment
Update frequency: biennial
Identifier: http://data.europa.eu/89h/12a852fe-8a43-4d04-9c75-1d3ef2ac673c
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