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.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- Date
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard
- Credit
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McNally et al. (2017) A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications, Scientific Data.
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Daily
- Update scope
- Platform
- Theme
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Type: Platform
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Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural, Hydrological Drought
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Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard
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Extent: Burundi, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
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- Use limitation
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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
- Metadata language
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eng
- Description
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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
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Various
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Various
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- OnLine resource
- http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/fewsnet-east-africa
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Description
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Burundi, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
Temporal Extent
Vertical extent
- Dataset
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Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard
Non quantitative attribute accuracy
- Measure description
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N/A
- Evaluation Method
- Direct internal
Conformance result
- Date (Revision)
- Pass
Conformance result
- Date
Completeness omission
- Name of measure
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Codelist omission
- Evaluation Method
- Direct internal
Conformance result
- Date (Revision)
- Pass
- Statement
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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
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Platform
- Hierarchy level name
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FLDAS - Eastern Africa
- Date stamp
- 2022-02-07T11:04:27
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
Overviews
Spatial extent
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