Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)

This index can be used to determine and characterizemeteorological drought hazards on a monthly basis.

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Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

Mapping meteorological drought hazard
Credit

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Custodian
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Maintenance and update frequency
Daily
Update scope
Indices
Theme

  • Type: Indices

  • Type of Drought: Meteorological Drought

  • Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard

  • Extent: Not relevant
Use limitation

Monthly precipitation and temperature. Water holding capacity of soils.
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Metadata language

eng
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / Spatial_reference / 7.9
Distribution format
  • ( Various )

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Temporal Extent

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Vertical extent

Dataset

Mapping meteorological drought hazard

Non quantitative attribute accuracy

Measure description

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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: Monthly precipitation and temperature. Water holding capacity of soils.;

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Concise description:

Calculated using monthly temperature and precipitation data along with information on the water-holding capacity of soils. It takes into account moisture received (precipitation) as well as moisture stored in the soil, accounting for the potential loss of moisture due to temperature influences.
File identifier
6b04419b-3d22-46ef-8e71-6a11bb002325 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Indices
Hierarchy level name

Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI)
Date stamp
2022-02-07T11:04:29
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Custodian
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Dataset URI

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Keywords

Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard Extent: Not relevant Type of Drought: Meteorological Drought Type: Indices

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