PDSI adif adif 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 01-Jan) periodic (Jan) to (Dec) by 1.0 N= 12 pts :grid
- Longitude (longitude)
- grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (178.75W) to (178.75E) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
- Latitude (latitude)
- grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (58.75S) to (76.25N) by 2.5 N= 55 pts :grid
Other Info
- CE
- null
- CS
- null
- datatype
- realarraytype
- file_missing_value
- -99999.0
- missing_value
- NaN
- units
- unitless
- history
- Averaged over T2[1860, 1995] minimum 0.0% data present
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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