The GPCC Drought Index – a new, combined and gridded global drought index
The Global Precipitation Climatology Centre Drought Index (GPCC-DI) provides estimations of water supply anomalies with respect to long-term statistics. It is a combination of the Standardized Precipitation Index with adaptations from Deutscher Wetterdienst (SPI-DWD) and the Standardized Preci...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-08-01
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| Series: | Earth System Science Data |
| Online Access: | http://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/6/285/2014/essd-6-285-2014.pdf |
| Summary: | The Global Precipitation Climatology Centre Drought Index (GPCC-DI) provides estimations of
water supply anomalies with respect to long-term statistics. It is a combination of the
Standardized Precipitation Index with adaptations from Deutscher Wetterdienst (SPI-DWD) and the
Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). Precipitation data were taken from the
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) and temperature data from NOAA's Climate Prediction
Center (CPC). The GPCC-DI is available with several accumulation periods of 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 24 and 48
months for different applications. It is issued monthly starting in January 2013. Typically, it
is released on the 10th day of the following month,
depending on the availability of the input data. It is calculated on a regular grid with
1°
spatial resolution. All accumulation periods are integrated into one netCDF file for each month. This
data set is referenced by the <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5676/DWD_GPCC/DI_M_100"target="_blank">doi:10.5676/DWD_GPCC/DI_M_100</a> and is available
free of charge from the GPCC website <a href="ftp://ftp.dwd.de/pub/data/gpcc/html/gpcc_di_doi_download.html"target="_blank">ftp://ftp.dwd.de/pub/data/gpcc/html/gpcc_di_doi_download.html</a>. |
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| ISSN: | 1866-3508 1866-3516 |