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Global Drought Hazard dataset (ENERGYDATA.INFO)

Open mirror of the global drought hazard rasters (months with SPEI <= -3.0 at 50-1000 year return periods) hosted on the ENERGYDATA.INFO open-data platform with GeoTIFF downloads.

energydata.info

At a glance

Region
Global
Coverage
Global
Access
Free
Category
International
Last updated
2019

What's inside

  • drought hazard
  • return period
  • SPEI
  • raster

Terms explained

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Drought indices

    Track SPI and SPEI style indices for declarations and relief.

    Because it has: drought hazard

  2. 02

    Planning

    Plan reservoir releases and cropping for a dry year.

  3. 03

    History

    Compare this year with the worst droughts on record.

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Onset forecasts

    Predict drought onset months ahead from climate signals.

  2. 02

    One risk score

    Combine many indices into a single, explainable risk score.

  3. 03

    Impact links

    Connect drought to yields, prices and migration with ML.

Machine access and documentation

Open API

CKAN-based open-data portal with dataset API and GeoTIFF downloads.

Licence: Open data

Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.

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