FLDAS - Southern Africa
This platform can be used to obtain real-time information on meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural drought hazards for Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo-Brazzavile, Congo-Kinshasa, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo-Brazzavile, Congo-Kinshasa, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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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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Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo-Brazzavile, Congo-Kinshasa, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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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-southern-africa
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Description
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Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo-Brazzavile, Congo-Kinshasa, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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
- 0fc6dadf-9d83-4dc1-a709-1950551386c6 XML
- Metadata language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Platform
- Hierarchy level name
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FLDAS - Southern Africa
- Date stamp
- 2022-02-07T11:04:52
- 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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