Mapping meteorological drought hazard

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Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, Montenegro, Serbia

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, Montenegro, Serbia

Mapping meteorological drought hazard

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Data format: .tiff;

Data access: website;

Concise description:

Basic information on drought in the current season are summarized in drought bulletin for SE Europe. Drought bulletin is being published since spring 2010.

Drought Bulletin for SE Europe. Using GPCC data, some preliminary maps of the SPI, Percentiles and Precipitation for the region were prepared. For making maps monthly precipitation data from GPCC were used. This data are land-only in latitude/longitude format in resolution 1 degree x 1 degree. For calculating monthly percentiles (5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 - with R) data from VASClimO (resolution 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree) for all period (1951-2000) were used.

Data were imported into GRASS GIS and interpolated to 100x (50x) better resolution (0.01 degree). For reprojecting maps into Lambert Conformal Conic Projection (lcc) nearest interpolation method was used. Maps are updated twice per month. Final data maps with two months delay are available after 20th day of the current month. First-guess maps are available after 5th day of the next month. Final data are available from January 1986, first-guess from August 2004. For period 1951-2000 maps are available here.

Indices included:

SPI-1,SPI-3,SPI-6,SPI-12,WBA-60

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Drought monitor - Drought management Centre for Southeast Europe

ISO 19115:2003/19139

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http://www.dmcsee.org/en/drought_monitor/