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Drought Termination and Amelioration

NCEI provides precipitation data that can be used to show probability or the amount of precipitation to ameliorate or end a drought at different monthly scales.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
Current Conditions, Forecasts
File Format
images
text (ascii)
csv
json
xml
Data Type
Model

ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5)

GPCC Drought Index: a standardized anomaly of precipitation and potential evapotranspiration regarding to long-term means.

Data Coverage
Global
Period of Record
1940 - Present
File Format
geotiff
netcdf-4
Data Type
Land-based Station
Model

ERA5: Drought Indices

GPCC Drought Index: a standardized anomaly of precipitation and potential evapotranspiration regarding to long-term means.

Data Coverage
Global
Period of Record
1940 - Present
File Format
geotiff
netcdf-4
Data Type
Land-based Station
Model

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) is an experimental tool that examines how anomalous the atmospheric evaporative demand (E0; also known as "the thirst of the atmosphere") is for a given

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
1980 - Present
File Format
images
text (ascii)
Data Type
Model