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African drought monitor and continental seasonal climate forecast service

This data set can be used to obtain information and data of meteorological, hydrological, and socio-economic drought hazards on a near real-time basis for Africa.

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Date (Publication)
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Custodian
  ACMAD - N/A ( )
http://www.acmad.net/rcc/
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard, Socio-economic drought hazard

Credit

N/A

Custodian
  ACMAD, dgacmad@acmad.ne/dgacmad@acmad.org Tel: +227 20 73 49 92
Maintenance and update frequency
Daily
Update scope
Dataset
Theme
  • Type: Dataset

  • Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural, Hydrological Drought

  • Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard, Socio-economic drought hazard

  • Extent: Africa

Use limitation

None

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Intellectual property rights
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Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Distance
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Spatial resolution

No information provided.
Metadata language

eng

Description

Africa

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Reference system identifier
EPSG / No Spatial Reference given / 7.9
Distribution format
  • ( Various )

OnLine resource
http://www.acmad.net/rcc/
Hierarchy level
Series
Description

Africa

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Temporal Extent

No information provided.

Vertical extent

Dataset

Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard, Socio-economic 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: N/A;

Data format: N/A;

Data access: website;


Concise description:

- Monthly and seasonal precipitation in percent of average for meteorological drought


- Monthly soil moisture anomaly data for agricultural/ hydrological drought


- The NDVI data is used to measure agricultural drought


- Lakes and rivers levels data for hydrological drought expected soon with sentinel suite of satellites

File identifier
7f6eb6a0-085c-4b9c-874c-1c78d990fcb6 XML
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

African drought monitor and continental seasonal climate forecast service

Date stamp
2022-02-07T11:04:21
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Custodian
  ACMAD - N/A ( )
http://www.acmad.net/rcc/
Dataset URI

http://www.acmad.net/rcc/

 
 

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Keywords

Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard, Socio-economic drought hazard Extent: Africa Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural, Hydrological Drought Type: Dataset

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