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Agricultural Reference Index for Drought (ARID)

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

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

Mapping agricultural 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: Agricultural Drought

  • Application: Mapping agricultural drought hazard

  • Extent: Only tested in the United States

Use limitation

Daily temperature and precipitation. The CERES-Maize model is also used, but other crop simulations models can used.

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Spatial resolution

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Metadata language

eng

Description

Only tested in the United States

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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/
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Description

Not relevant

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Temporal Extent

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Vertical extent

Dataset

Mapping agricultural 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: Daily temperature and precipitation. The CERES-Maize model is also used, but other crop simulations models can used.;

Data used: N/A;

Data format: N/A;

Data access: N/A;


Concise description:

Predicts the status of moisture availability in the soil. It uses a combination of water stress approximations and crop models to identify the impact of water stress on plant growth, development and yield for specific crops.

File identifier
b6a14b52-a13a-493e-b56b-41d56db0dd1b XML
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Indices
Hierarchy level name

Agricultural Reference Index for Drought (ARID)

Date stamp
2022-02-07T11:04:22
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 agricultural drought hazard Extent: Only tested in the United States Type of Drought: Agricultural Drought Type: Indices

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