Drought Working Group Science Data Sets as of 2007
| DATA Set | Web Link | Period | Spatial Resolution | Temporal Resolution | Proposer | |
| PRECIPITATION | ||||||
| Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) Global Gridded Product for Precipitation Anomalies | http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ghcn/ghcngrid.html#Overview | Jan 1900 - present | 5.0 deg | Monthly | Siegfried Schubert | Anomalies are from the 1961-90 base period |
| CPC's US-Mexico gridded station precipitation | http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.REGIONAL/.US_Mexico/.daily/.gridded/.archive/.prcp/monthlyAverage/ | Jan 1948 - Dec 2004 | 1.0 deg | Daily | Brad Lyon | |
| CPC's US-Mexico gridded station precip (REALTIME) | http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.REGIONAL/.US_Mexico/.daily/.gridded/.realtime/.prcp/monthlyAverage/ | May 2001 - Dec 2006 | 1.0 deg | Daily | Brad Lyon | |
| CPC's North & South American Retrospective precip analysis | http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/realtime/retro.shtml | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| Mexico, Central American & Caribbean station Precip | http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/ | Jan 1901 - Dec 1999 | 3000 stations | Monthly, daily (soon) | Victor Magana (Please provide web link) | |
| India Sub-division Monsoon Rainfall Data | http://www.iges.org/india/partha.subdiv.html | 1871 -2000 | Divisional rainfall based on 306 stations | Summer seasonal rainfall | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | |
| CPC's Global land precipitation reconstruction (PRECL) | http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.PRECL/.prcp/ | Jan 1948 - Dec 2002 | 2.5 deg, land | Monthly | Brad Lyon | |
| Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) from gage data (UEA gridded) | http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.IRI/.Analyses/.SPI/ | Jan 1901 - Dec 2002 | 0.5 deg, land | 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 month indices | Brad Lyon | |
| Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) from Merged gage-satellite data (CPC/CMAP, NASA/GPCP) | http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.IRI/.Analyses/.SPI/ | Jan 1979 - Dec 2006 | 2.5 deg | 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 month indices | Brad Lyon | |
| UEA (Univ of East Anglia) precipitation | http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.UEA/.CRU/.TS2p1/.monthly/.prcp/ | Jan 1901 - Dec 2002 | 0.5 deg, land | Monthly | Brad Lyon | |
| CPC's CMAP-2 (gauge + satellite) | http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.Merged_Analysis/.monthly/.latest/.ver2/.prcp_est/ | Jan 1979 - Aug 2006 | 2.5 deg | Monthly | Brad Lyon | |
| CPC's CMAP (gauge + satellite + NWP) | http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.Merged_Analysis/.monthly/.v0605/ | Jan 1979 - Mar 2006 | 2.5 deg | Monthly | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | |
| NASA's GPCP | http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NASA/.GPCP/.V2/.satellite-gauge/.prcp/ | Jan 1979 - Dec 2006 | 2.5 deg | Monthly | Brad Lyon | |
| LAND Surface and Subsurface Data | ||||||
| CPC's global soil moisture (van den Dool's) | http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.GMSM/.w/ | Jan 1948 - Nov 2006 | 0.5 deg, land | Brad Lyon | ||
| Global Soil Wetness Project, vesrion 2 (GSWP-2) | http://www.iges.org/gswp2/ | 1.0 deg | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | |||
| COLA's Global Off-line Land-surface Data Set (GOLD) | http://www.iges.org/gold/ | Jan 1979 - Dec 1999 | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | |||
| NLDAS: NOAH land-surface model (revised vegetation) Contact: Helin.Wei@noaa.gov | ftp: Nomad4.ncep.noaa.gov | Jan 1997 - present | 0.125 deg | Kingtse Mo | Driven by observed precipitation, humidity, low-level winds and radiation | |
| NASA LDAS: Mosaic Contact: Brian.Cosgrove@gsfc.nasa.gov | Oct 1996 - present | 0.125 deg | Kingtse Mo | Driven by observed precipitation, humidity, low-level winds and radiation | ||
| U Washington: VIC Historical run (Maurer et al. 2002) Contact: Andy Wood: aww@hydro.washington.edu | http://www.hydro.washington.edu/forecast/monitor | Jan 1915 - Dec 2003 | 50 km | Dennis Lettenmaier Kingtse Mo | Driven by observed precipitation, humidity, low-level winds and radiation | |
| VIC-Modified (Eric Wood / Ken Mitchell) Contact: Youlong.Xia@noaa.gov | Jan 1997 - present | Kingtse Mo | Driven by observed precipitation, humidity, low-level winds and radiation | |||
| SAC (To be rerun with new developments) Contact: Ken Mitchell | Jan 1997 - present | Kingtse Mo | ||||
| COUPLED Atmosphere-Land-surface model North American Regional Reanalysis | http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/#narr_datasets | Jan 1979 - present | 32 km, regional | 3-hourly | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | Sounding, satellite and PRECIPITATION data is assimilated; has 4-layers of soil moisture |
| PALMER Drought Severity Index | ||||||
| Global PDSI data set (Dai, Trenberth & Qian 2004) | http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/catalog/climind/pdsi.html | Jan 1870 - Dec 2005 | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | |||
| CPC Drought Monitoring | http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/monitoring_and_data/drought.shtml | |||||
| NCDC's Drought portal | http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/monitoring.html#drought | |||||
| PDSI for ERA-40 and North American Reg.Reanalysis Contact: Kris Karnauskas; kris@essic.umd.edu | For ERA-40 and NARR periods | At ERA-40 and NARR resolution | Monthly | Sumant Nigam | Dai et al.'s algorithm (with modifications) was applied to ERA-40 and NARR data to develop a consistent PDSI product | |
| UCAR's Informed Guide to Climate Data Sets: | http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/guide/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| Surface AIR Temperature | ||||||
| CPC's surface air-temperature ANOMALY | http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.CAMS/.anomaly/.temp/ | Jan 1950 - present | 2.0 deg | Brad Lyon | ||
| Univ of East Anglia (UEA) Surface Air Temperature | http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) Global Gridded Product for Temperature Anomalies | http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ghcn/ghcngrid.html#Overview | Jan 1880 - present | 5.0 deg | Monthly | Siegfried Schubert | Anomalies are from the 1961-90 base period |
| Sea Surface/Subsurface Temperature | ||||||
| Hadley's SST and Sea-Ice (HadlSST) | http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadisst/ | |||||
| http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds277.3/ | Jan 1870 - Dec 2005 | 1.0 deg | Monthly | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||
| Reynolds Optimum Interpolation SST, version 2 | http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/cmb/sst_analysis/ | Dec 1981 - Dec 2006 | 1.0 deg | Monthly, weekly | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | |
| http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds277.0/data/oiv2/ | Dec 1981 - Dec 2006 | 1.0 deg | Monthly, weekly | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||
| Joint Environmental Analysis Data Center (Warren White's) Sub-surface Temperatures: | http://jedac.ucsd.edu/DATA_IMAGES/index.html | Jan 1955 - Dec 2003 | Monthly | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||
| Atmospheric Upper-air Station Data | ||||||
| GFDL monthly atmospheric circulation analysis (Oort) | http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds217.1/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| Atmospheric Reanalyses | ||||||
| Japanese Reanalysis JRA-25 | http://jra.kishou.go.jp/index_en.html | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| North American Regional Reanalysis | http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/#narr_datasets | Jan 1979 - present | 32 km, regional | 3-hourly | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | Sounding, satellite and PRECIPITATION data is assimilated |
| http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds608.0/ | Jan 1979 - May 2006 | 32 km, regional | 3-hourly | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||
| ECMWF's ERA-40 Reanalysis | http://data.ecmwf.int/data/ | |||||
| NCEP/DOE Reanalysis 2 | http://dss.ucar.edu/pub/reanalysis2/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/reanalysis2/ndex.html | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | |||||
| NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis | http://dss.ucar.edu/pub/reanalysis/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/reanalysis.html | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | |||||
| http://ingrid.ldgo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP-NCAR/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | |||||
| Oceanic Reanalyses | ||||||
| University of Maryland Ocean Reanalysis | http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ocean/ | Jan 1950 - Dec 2003 | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | |||
| ECCO Reanalysis | http://www.ecco-group.org/ | Jan 1950 - Dec 2000 | 1.0 deg | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||
| DATA LIBRARIES | ||||||
| UCAR Data Library | http://www.dss.ucar.edu/catalogs/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| IRI LDEO Climate data Library | http://ingrid.ldgo.columbia.edu/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| Met Office Hadley Centre Data Sets | http://hadobs.metoffice.com/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| UK's UEA Climatic Research Unit & Tyndall Centre | http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timm/data/index-table.html | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory | http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/PublicData/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| University of Washington's JISAO Data Library | http://jisao.washington.edu/data.html | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| University of Delaware Climate Data Library | http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~climate/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas | ||||
| DATA Set Guide | ||||||
| UCAR's Informed Guide to Climate Data Sets: | http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/guide/ | Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas |