PDSI int_dY Palmer Drought Severity Index from NCAR CGD CAS Indices: Palmer Drought Severity Index from the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- Time (time)
- grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1860) to (Dec 1995) by 1.0 N= 1632 pts :grid
- Longitude (longitude)
- grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (180W) to (177.5E) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
- Latitude (latitude)
- grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (60S) to (77.5N) by 2.5 N= 56 pts :grid
Other Info
- bufferwordsize
- 8
- CE
- null
- CS
- null
- datatype
- doublearraytype
- file_missing_value
- -99999.0
- missing_value
- NaN
- units
- degree_north
- standard units*
- 0.0174532925199433 radian north
References
Heddinghaus, T.R. and P. Sabol, 1991: A review of the Palmer Drought Severity Index and where do we go from here? Proceedings, 7th Conf. on Appl. Climatol., 10-13 September 1991, Boston: American Meteorological Society, 242-246.
Guttman, N.B., 1991: A sensitivity analysis of the Palmer Hydrologic Drought Index. Water Resour. Bull., 27, 797-807.
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