FLDAS - Eastern Africa

This platform can be used to obtain information of meteorological agricultural, and hydrological drought hazards for Burundi, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.

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Date (Publication)
Date
Custodian
  NASA - Amy McNally ( )
http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/fewsnet-east-africa
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard
Credit

McNally et al. (2017) A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications, Scientific Data.
Custodian
  NASA, amy.l.mcnally@nasa.gov
Maintenance and update frequency
Daily
Update scope
Platform
Theme

  • Type: Platform

  • Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural, Hydrological Drought

  • Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard

  • Extent: Burundi, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
Use limitation

None
Access constraints
Intellectual property rights
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Date
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Distance
Aggregation period: Pentad to seasonal  
Distance
Spatial scale: 0.25 and 0.1 degree (~25, 10km)  

Spatial resolution

No information provided.
Metadata language

eng
Description

Burundi, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
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Begin date
1981
End date
near real-time
Date (Revision)
Reference system identifier
EPSG / No Spatial Reference given / 7.9
Distribution format
  • ( Various )

OnLine resource
http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/fewsnet-east-africa
Hierarchy level
Series
Description

Burundi, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
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Temporal Extent

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Vertical extent

Dataset

Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard

Non quantitative attribute accuracy

Measure description

N/A
Evaluation Method
Direct internal

Conformance result

Date (Revision)
Pass

Conformance result

Date

Completeness omission

Name of measure

Codelist omission
Evaluation Method
Direct internal

Conformance result

Date (Revision)
Pass
Statement

Data requirements to use: None;

Data used: CHIRPS, MERRA, GDAS, RFE2;

Data format: NetCDF;

Data access: HTTP, FTP;


Concise description:

(1) FLDAS outputs are based on multiple hydrologic models hence they better represent the uncertainty in simulated hydrologic variables. (2) FLDAS provides simulation of soil moisture and runoff/streamflow (observations of which are sparse at best) hence it allows monitoring of agricultural and hydrological drought.


Indices included:

GeoWRSI, NOAA Daily Rainfall, CHIRPS Precipitation
File identifier
09693944-a13e-44d6-92fe-01b37a73e952 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Platform
Hierarchy level name

FLDAS - Eastern Africa
Date stamp
2022-02-07T11:04:27
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Custodian
  NASA - Amy McNally ( )
http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/fewsnet-east-africa
Dataset URI

http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/fewsnet-east-africa

 
 

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Keywords

Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard Extent: Burundi, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural, Hydrological Drought Type: Platform

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