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Old World Drought Atlas

This dataset can be used to obtain data on historical meteorological drought hazards on for Europe.

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Date (Publication)
Date
Custodian
  LDEO TreeRingLab - N/A ( )
http://kage.ldeo.columbia.edu/TRL/OWDA/
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

Mapping meteorological drought hazard

Credit

Cook, E. R., R. Seager, Y. Kushnir, K. Briffa, U. Buentgen, D. Frank, P. Krusic, W. Tegel, G. van der Schrier, L. Andreu-Hayles, M. Baillie, C. Baitttinger, A. Billamboz, N. Bleicher, N. Bonde, D. Brown, M. Carrer, R. Cooper, K. Cufar, C. Dittmar, J. Esper, C. Giggs, B. Gunnarson, B. Gunther, E. Gutierrez, K. Haneca, S. Helema, F. Herzig, K.-U. Heussner, J. Hofman, P. Janda, R. Kontic, N. Kose, T. Kyncl, T. Levanic, H. Linderholm, S. Manning, T. Melvin, D. Miles, B. Neuwirth, K. Nicolussi, P. Nola, M. Panayotov, I. Popa, A. Rothe, K. Seftigen, A. Seim, H. Svarva, M. Svoboda, T. Thun, M. Timonen, R. Touchan, V. Trotsiuk, V. Truet, F. Walder, T. Wazny, R. Wilson, C. Zang, 2015: Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era. Science Advances, in press.

Custodian
  LDEO TreeRingLab, naomi@ldeo.columbia.edu
Maintenance and update frequency
Daily
Update scope
Dataset
Theme
  • Type: Dataset

  • Type of Drought: Meteorological Drought

  • Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard

  • Extent: Europe

Use limitation

None

Access constraints
Intellectual property rights
Use constraints
Other restrictions
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Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Distance
Aggregation period: yearly  
Distance
Spatial scale: 0.5 degree  

Spatial resolution

No information provided.
Metadata language

eng

Description

Europe

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Begin date
0001BC
End date
01-Jan-12
Date (Revision)
Reference system identifier
EPSG / No Spatial Reference given / 7.9
Distribution format
  • ( Various )

OnLine resource
http://kage.ldeo.columbia.edu/TRL/OWDA/
Hierarchy level
Series
Description

Europe

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Temporal Extent

No information provided.

Vertical extent

Dataset

Mapping meteorological drought hazard

Non quantitative attribute accuracy

Measure description

Peer-reviewed

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: tree-ring reconstructions;

Data format: .netcdf;

Data access: FTP/OPeNDAP;


Concise description:

Reconstructed PDSI for Europe-Mediterranean Region 

File identifier
f25876df-bb7f-481d-a343-c180eeb7e66a XML
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

Old World Drought Atlas

Date stamp
2022-02-07T11:04:25
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Custodian
  LDEO TreeRingLab - N/A ( )
http://kage.ldeo.columbia.edu/TRL/OWDA/
Dataset URI

http://kage.ldeo.columbia.edu/TRL/OWDA/

 
 

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Keywords

Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard Extent: Europe Type of Drought: Meteorological Drought Type: Dataset

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