DATASET

Drought events based on SPEI 12 version 1.0

Collection: Droughts : Global Database of Drought Events from 1951 to 2016 

Description

Drought Events based on Standard Precipitation and Evapotranspiration index of 12 Months

Contact

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

Contributors

  • European Drought Observatory, EDO

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2017): Drought events based on SPEI 12 version 1.0. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/154f7ef5-17da-481f-b6e6-2933db1c7af3

Keywords

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

Data access

Drought events based on SPEI 12 from 1951 to 2016 by macroregions (csv)
Download 
Timeline of Drought Events
URL 
Drought events based on SPEI 12 from 1951 to 2016 by countries (csv)
Download 
  • To be joined with field CTY_CODE of the provided csv files (ISO_A3 <=>CTY_CODE).

Macroregions (dbf)
URL 
  • Customized version defined in Iturbide, M., GutiĆ©rrez, 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 12 Months (NetCDF)
URL 

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
URL 

Geographic areas

World

Spatial coverage

Type Value
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
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/154f7ef5-17da-481f-b6e6-2933db1c7af3
Popularity