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The GRIDMET DROUGHT dataset offers various drought indices, including SPI, EDDI, SPEI, and PDSI, derived from the 4-km daily Gridded Surface Meteorological (GRIDMET) dataset for the contiguous US.
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The GRIDMET dataset provides daily surface data for temperature, precipitation, winds, humidity, and radiation at ~4-km resolution across the contiguous US from 1979 onwards.
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Both datasets are relevant for climate, agricultural, and geophysical analysis, with GRIDMET DROUGHT focusing specifically on drought monitoring.
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GRIDMET DROUGHT: CONUS Drought Indices
This dataset contains drought indices derived from the 4-km daily Gridded Surface Meteorological (GRIDMET) dataset. The drought indices provided include the standardized precipitation index (SPI), the evaporative drought demand index (EDDI), the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI), the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and Palmer … climate conus crop drought evapotranspiration geophysical -
GRIDMET: University of Idaho Gridded Surface Meteorological Dataset
The Gridded Surface Meteorological dataset provides high spatial resolution (~4-km) daily surface fields of temperature, precipitation, winds, humidity and radiation across the contiguous United States from 1979. The dataset blends the high resolution spatial data from PRISM with the high temporal resolution data from the … climate gridmet humidity merced metdata precipitation