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Old World Drought Atlas

The OWDA provides new data to determine the causes of Old World drought and wetness and attribute past climate variability to forced and/or internal variability.

Data Coverage
Europe
File Format
images
text (ascii)
netcdf-4
Data Type
Paleoclimate

Overview of Weather Water Land Sites (OWWLS)

OWWLS, Overview of Weather Water Land Sites, maps the location of weather stations, streamgages, groundwater monitoring stations and reservoirs across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 

Data Coverage
Puerto Rico
United States
USVI/USAPI
Data Type
Land-based Station

Paleoclimatology Data

NCEI provides the paleoclimatology data and information scientists need to understand natural climate variability and future climate change.

Data Coverage
Global
Period of Record
Historical data
Data Type
Model
Paleoclimate

Potential Flash Drought Detection Tool from NLDAS-2

The Potential Flash Drought Detection Tool identifies areas of potential rapid drought emergence by identifying rapid change of evapotranspiration using the NLDAS-2 land surface model. 

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
File Format
images
geotiff
Data Type
Model