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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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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
User defined maintenance frequency
P0Y0M0DT0H0M0S
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

Access constraints
Intellectual property rights
Use constraints
Other restrictions
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Spatial resolution

Distance
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Spatial resolution

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Language

eng

Description

Africa

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End date
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Date (Revision)
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

Title

N/A

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

Metadata

File identifier
7f6eb6a0-085c-4b9c-874c-1c78d990fcb6XML
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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