NOAA CPC

This platform can be used to obtain real-time information on meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural drought hazards for Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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Date (Publication)
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Custodian
  NOAA CPC - N/A ( )
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/international/africa/africa.shtml
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard
Credit

N/A
Custodian
  NOAA CPC, N/A
Maintenance and update frequency
Daily
Update scope
Platform
Theme

  • Type: Platform

  • Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural, Hydrological Drought

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

  • Extent: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Use limitation

None
Access constraints
Intellectual property rights
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Date
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Distance
Aggregation period: 0.5, 1, 6 months  
Distance
Spatial scale: .1 degree  

Spatial resolution

No information provided.
Metadata language

eng
Description

Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Begin date
2000 (RFE2) 1983 (ARC2)
End date
2017
Date (Revision)
Reference system identifier
EPSG / No Spatial Reference given / 7.9
Distribution format
  • ( Various )

OnLine resource
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/international/africa/africa.shtml
Hierarchy level
Series
Description

Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Temporal Extent

No information provided.

Vertical extent

Dataset

Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard

Non quantitative attribute accuracy

Measure description

Good
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: GRIB;

Data access: HTTP, FTP;


Concise description:

Routinely updated


Indices included:

CPC-U SPI, CMORF SPI, Soil Moisture Percentile, Runoff Percentile, Temperature Percentile, Precipitation, Temperature
File identifier
88f38600-5d00-4099-b86b-a5142e7d4c27 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Platform
Hierarchy level name

NOAA CPC
Date stamp
2022-02-07T11:04:23
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Custodian
  NOAA CPC - N/A ( )
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/international/africa/africa.shtml
Dataset URI

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/international/africa/africa.shtml

 
 

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Keywords

Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard Extent: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural, Hydrological Drought Type: Platform

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