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FLDAS - Central Asia Snow Modeling

This platform can be used to obtain information of Mapping meteorological drought hazards on a near real-time basis for Afghanistan and Pakistan (including snow).

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

Mapping meteorological 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 Drought

  • Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard

  • Extent: Afghanistan, Pakistan

Use limitation

None

Access constraints
Intellectual property rights
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Date
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Distance
Aggregation period: N/A  
Distance
Spatial scale: 1km x 1km  

Spatial resolution

No information provided.
Metadata language

eng

Description

Afghanistan, Pakistan

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Begin date
2001
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-central-asia
Hierarchy level
Series
Description

Afghanistan, Pakistan

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Temporal Extent

No information provided.

Vertical extent

Dataset

Mapping meteorological 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 and GeoTIFF;

Data access: HTTP, FTP;


Concise description:

Routinely updated, high resolution


Indices included:

Snow Water Equivalent (SWE)

File identifier
5e4ef2c4-e512-4223-8079-16201b8d2342 XML
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Platform
Hierarchy level name

FLDAS - Central Asia Snow Modeling

Date stamp
2022-02-07T11:04:34
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Custodian
  NASA - Amy McNally ( )
http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/fewsnet-central-asia
Dataset URI

http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/fewsnet-central-asia

 
 

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Keywords

Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard Extent: Afghanistan, Pakistan Type of Drought: Meteorological Drought Type: Platform

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