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EDO Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) (version 1.6.1, dismissed)

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Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) based on SPI, soil moisture and fAPAR, to identify areas with potential to suffer agricultural drought, areas where the vegetation is already affected by drought conditions, and areas in the recovery process to normal conditions after a drought episode. The method is based on 5 impact levels. These levels are: "Watch" when a relevant precipitation shortage is observed, "Warning" when this precipitation shortage comes with a soil moisture anomaly, "Alert" when these two conditions are accompanied with an anomaly in the vegetation condition, "Partial recovery" when after a drought episode, the meteorological conditions are recovered to normal but not the vegetation conditions, "Full recovery" when meteorological and vegetation normal conditions are recovered. Currently, historical data are being reprocessed.

--- IMPORTANT WARNING: this dataset is not computed or displayed in EDO anymore. Please, consider the latest CDI release instead.

Contributors

EDO European Drought Observatory

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2026): EDO Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) (version 1.6.1, dismissed). [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.1BNVE0R PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/e83b19ce-08c2-4e0c-b93a-5fd62be21e5e

Keywords

CEMSCombined indicatorCopernicusDroughtsEuropean Drought Observatory (EDO)FAPARIndicatorSoil MoistureSPI

Other resources

Combined Drought Indicator Factsheet
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Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • Factsheet of the Combined Drought Indicator

Publications

Publication
Development of a Combined Drought Indicator to detect agricultural drought in Europe
Sepulcre-Canto, G., S. Horion, A. Singleton, H. Carrão, and J. Vogt. 2012. Development of a Combined Drought Indicator to detect agricultural drought in Europe. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 12, 3519-3531

Spatial coverage

Temporal coverage

From date To date
2012-03-01 2023-12-31

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
JRC-EMS-DROUGHT (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
three times a month

The event occurs three times a month.

Language(s)
English

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Data theme(s)
Environment

dataset theme covering the domain of environment, defined as the interaction of all living species, climate, weather, and natural resources that impact human survival and economic activity

Issued date
2020-12-21
Created date
10 Nov 2020 10:35
Modified date
27 May 2024 15:46
Landing page
https://drought.emergency.copernicus.eu/ 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/e83b19ce-08c2-4e0c-b93a-5fd62be21e5e
Other identifiers
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