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Global droughts events

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Title
Global droughts events
Description
This dataset includes an estimate of global drought annual repartition based on Standardized Precipitation Index. It is based on two sources: 1) A global monthly gridded precipitation dataset obtained from the Climatic Research Unit (University of East Anglia). 2) A GIS modeling of global Standardized Precipitation Index based on Brad Lyon (IRI, Columbia University) methodology. This product was designed by UNEP/GRID-Europe for the Project of Risk Evaluation, Vulnerability, Information & Early Warning (PreView). It was modeled using global data. Credit: UNEP/GRID-Europe. [Preview this dataset] (http://preview.grid.unep.ch/index.php?preview=data&events=droughts&evcat=1⟨=eng)
Creator
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Publisher
The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
1980-01-01 to 2001-12-31
Date Issued
2015-05-05
Access Rights
Public
Date Added
August 23, 2025
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.

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  • Citation
    United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2015). Global droughts events. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/f5e8b21e-bb71-40e3-8129-5378ebc42e33 (dataset)
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