Drought is a complex environmental phenomenon that can affect a wide range of natural and socioeconomic resources, including surface water, groundwater, natural vegetation, crops, wildlife, livestock, and public health services, and can contribute to disasters like wildfire and famine. As a result, characterizing drought severity and duration using maps can help to inform preparedness and response efforts.
To help support these efforts, the Climate Engine web application has been supported by NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System and can be used to create drought maps from a variety of data sources. In this video, we’ll demonstrate how to select 1) climate datasets and drought indicators, 2) identify drought time periods, and 3) interpret the drought maps so that you can start using them.
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Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:53 Accessing the Climate Engine App
1:26 Description of the use case
2:50 Create map of the 1-year standardized precipitation index (SPI) for northern South America
5:26 Create map of the 3-month standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPI) for the eastern Mediterranean
6:40 Exporting and sharing your data
7:25 Closing
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Learn more about all of our tools and efforts at climateengine.org!
Visit the Climate Engine web application at app.climateengine.org.
Here are links to our introductory tutorials to the Climate Engine web application:
- Making Maps in the Climate Engine Research App: ua-cam.com/video/jMZFWRgchzw/v-deo.html
- Creating Graphs in the Climate Engine Research App: ua-cam.com/video/JUFpG24AEkM/v-deo.html
The ClimateEngine.org Support Site can be found at support.climateengine.org.
Here are links to the datasets and indices referred to in the video:
- ERA5 Land: support.climateengine.org/article/59-era5-land
- Standardized precipitation index (SPI): support.climateengine.org/article/93-standardized-precipitation-index-spi
- Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI): support.climateengine.org/article/124-standardized-precipitation-evapotranspiration-index
- Standardized index calculations: support.climateengine.org/article/130-standardized-indice-calculation-methods
- Hargreaves Potential evapotranspiration calculation: support.climateengine.org/article/125-hargreaves-potential-evapotranspiration
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🎵 Music credits 🎵
Luminous Trails, PineAppleMusic
Tutorial, Paul Yudin