Drought events based on SPEI 3 version 1.0

EDO European Drought Observatory

Description

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

Contact

Email: Jonathan.SPINONI (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

EDO European Drought Observatory

How to cite

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

Data access

Timeline of Drought Events

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

Standardised Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index SPEI 3 Months (NetCDF)

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Macroregions (dbf)

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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).

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

Type	Value
WKT	POLYGON((-180 90,180 90,180 -90,-180 -90,-180 90))

Temporal coverage

From date	To date
1951	2016

Additional information

Published by: European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date: 2020-07-14
Modified date: 2022-02-08
Issued date: 2017-07-14
Landing page: https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events
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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