Reclamation Drought Index (RDI)
This index can be used to determine and characterizehydrological drought hazards on a monthly basis at river basin scale. (source WMO and GWP, 2016)
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- Date
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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Mapping hydrological drought hazard
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N/A
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Daily
- Update scope
- Indices
- Theme
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Type: Indices
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Type of Drought: Hydrological Drought
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Application: Mapping hydrological drought hazard
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Extent: Not relevant
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- Use limitation
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Monthly precipitation, snowpack, reservoir levels, streamflow and temperature.
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Date
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
- Distance
- Aggregation period: N/A
- Distance
- Spatial scale: River basin
Spatial resolution
- Metadata language
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eng
- Description
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Not relevant
- Begin date
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- End date
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- Date (Revision)
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / Spatial_reference / 7.9
- Distribution format
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Various
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Various
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- OnLine resource
- http://www.droughtmanagement.info/indices/
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Description
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Not relevant
Temporal Extent
Vertical extent
- Dataset
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Mapping hydrological drought hazard
Non quantitative attribute accuracy
- Measure description
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N/A
- Evaluation Method
- Direct internal
Conformance result
- Date (Revision)
- Pass
Conformance result
- Date
Completeness omission
- Name of measure
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Codelist omission
- Evaluation Method
- Direct internal
Conformance result
- Date (Revision)
- Pass
- Statement
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Data requirements to use: Monthly precipitation, snowpack, reservoir levels, streamflow and temperature.;
Data used: N/A;
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Data access: N/A;
Concise description:
Developed to define drought severity as well as duration and can also be used to predict the onset and end of drought periods. It has both wet and dry scales and is calculated at the river basin level, in a similar way to the Surface Water Supply Index (SWSI). RDI has water-demand and temperature components, which allow for the inclusion of evaporation into the index.
- File identifier
- c7217e05-44b9-4c09-ba4d-bba5ba497285 XML
- Metadata language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Indices
- Hierarchy level name
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Reclamation Drought Index (RDI)
- Date stamp
- 2022-02-07T11:04:39
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Dataset URI