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Palmer Z Index

This index can be used to determine and characterize meteorological andagricultural drought hazards on a monthly basis. (source WMO and GWP, 2016)

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Date (Publication)
Date
Custodian
  N/A - N/A ( )
http://www.droughtmanagement.info/indices/
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard

Credit

N/A

Custodian
  N/A, N/A
Maintenance and update frequency
Daily
Update scope
Indices
Theme
  • Type: Indices

  • Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural Drought

  • Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard

  • Extent: Not relevant

Use limitation

Monthly precipitation and temperature. Water holding capacity of soils.

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

Spatial resolution

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Distance
Spatial scale: Not relevant  

Spatial resolution

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Metadata language

eng

Description

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Begin date
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End date
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Date (Revision)
Reference system identifier
EPSG / Spatial_reference / 7.9
Distribution format
  • ( Various )

OnLine resource
http://www.droughtmanagement.info/indices/
Hierarchy level
Series
Description

Not relevant

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Temporal Extent

No information provided.

Vertical extent

Dataset

Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural 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: Monthly precipitation and temperature. Water holding capacity of soils.;

Data used: N/A;

Data format: N/A;

Data access: N/A;


Concise description:

Sometimes referred to as the ‘Moisture Anomaly Index’, and the derived values provide a comparable measure of the relative anomalies of a region for both dryness and wetness when compared to the entire record for that location.

File identifier
71a7046f-28d9-4a9c-a624-e99ff8b7a740 XML
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Indices
Hierarchy level name

Palmer Z Index

Date stamp
2022-02-07T11:04:27
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Custodian
  N/A - N/A ( )
http://www.droughtmanagement.info/indices/
Dataset URI

http://www.droughtmanagement.info/indices/

 
 

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Keywords

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

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