Date (Publication)

Date

Presentation form

Digital map

Purpose

Mapping meteorological drought hazard

Credit

National Center for Atmospheric Research/ University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. 2013. Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) for Global Land Surface (1949-2012). Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6086397. Accessed† dd mmm yyyy.

Maintenance and update frequency

Daily

User defined maintenance frequency

P0Y0M0DT0H0M0S

Update scope

Dataset

Theme

• Type: Dataset

• Type of Drought: Meteorological Drought

• Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard

• Extent: Global

Use limitation

None

Access constraints

Intellectual property rights

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Title

Precipitation data resampled from the original University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) global time series, TS3.21, monthly 0.5° by 0.5° grids to the study unit of analysis, 1.0° by 1.0° grids

Date

Spatial representation type

Vector

Distance

Spatial scale: 1°  

Language

eng

Description

World

Begin date

1949

End date

2012

Date (Revision)

Reference system identifier

EPSG / Spatial_reference / 7.9

Distribution format

• (Various)

OnLine resource

https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds298.0/#!access

Hierarchy level

Series

Description

World

Dataset

Mapping meteorological drought hazard

Statement

Data requirements to use: None;

Data used: Precipitation data resampled from the original University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) global time series, TS3.21, monthly 0.5° by 0.5° grids to the study unit of analysis, 1.0° by 1.0° grids;

Data format: N/A;

Data access: N/A;

Concise description:

This dataset includes the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) at three-, six-, and 12-month scales for global land surfaces. The precipitation data (1949-2012) are resampled from the original University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) global time series, TS3.21, monthly 0.5° by 0.5° grids to the study unit of analysis, 1.0° by 1.0° grids, thereby facilitating regression with environmental and socioeconomic variables.

Metadata

File identifier

bba2795f-65be-4810-bb62-bf1c4965b8c2XML

Metadata language

eng

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) for Global Land Surface (1949-2012)

Date stamp

2022-02-07T11:04:26

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Dataset URI

https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds298.0/#!access