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PDSI: University of Idaho Palmer Drought Severity Index
The Palmer Drought Severity Index dataset provides high spatial resolution (~4-km) thrice-monthly estimates of this widely used measure of integrated water supply and demand anomalies across the contiguous United States from 1979-present. The PDSI is calculated using precipitation and potential evapotranspiration derived from the gridded ... pdsi drought conus crop palmer geophysical -
TerraClimate: Monthly Climate and Climatic Water Balance for Global Terrestrial Surfaces, University of Idaho
TerraClimate is a dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces. It uses climatically aided interpolation, combining high-spatial resolution climatological normals from the WorldClim dataset, with coarser spatial resolution, but time-varying data from CRU Ts4.0 and the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA55). ... climate global monthly geophysical palmer drought -
KBDI: Keetch-Byram Drought Index
Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) is a continuous reference scale for estimating the dryness of the soil and duff layers. The index increases for each day without rain (the amount of increase depends on the daily high temperature) and decreases when it rains. This system is ... kbdi drought rainfall lst-derived utokyo wtlab