Global Drought Hazard dataset (HDX)
Global drought hazard raster dataset (GFDRR) giving number of months with SPEI <= -3.0 for return periods of 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000 years, downloadable as GeoTIFF on the Humanitarian Data Exchange.
data.humdata.org
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.
- 01
Drought indices
Track SPI and SPEI style indices for declarations and relief.
Because it has: drought hazard
- 02
Planning
Plan reservoir releases and cropping for a dry year.
- 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.
- 01
Onset forecasts
Predict drought onset months ahead from climate signals.
- 02
One risk score
Combine many indices into a single, explainable risk score.
- 03
Impact links
Connect drought to yields, prices and migration with ML.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Hosted on HDX (CKAN) with resource download links and CKAN API.
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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