Date (Publication)

Date

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.

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

Distance

Spatial scale: 1km x 1km  

Metadata language

eng

Description

Afghanistan, Pakistan

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

Dataset

Mapping meteorological drought hazard

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

Dataset URI

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