Mapping meteorological drought hazard

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.

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Mapping meteorological drought hazard

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;

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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.

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

ISO 19115:2003/19139

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