Dai Palmer Drought Severity Index

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center

Publication_Date: 19951201

Title: Dai Palmer Drought Severity Index

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Publication_Place: Boulder, CO

Publisher: NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center

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Online_Linkage: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.pdsi.html

Description:

Abstract:

Purpose - Scientific research. Abstract - PDSI from the Dai data. The documentation says, The Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) is devised by Palmer (1965) to represent the severity of dry and wet spells over the U.S. based on monthly temperature and precipitation data as well as the soil-water holding capacity at that location. These data consist of the monthly PDSI over global land areas from 1860 to 1995 derived using monthly surface air temperature (from Hansen and Lebedeff, 1987 and updates) and precipitation (from Dai et al., 1997) data. Soil-holding capacity was fixed to climatological maps from Webb et al.(1993). More details can be found in Dai et. al. (1998). Additional information including references is available here. NOAAServer Codes: [POL -60 75 -180 177.50] ; dateline preview obtain More information: "http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.pdsi.html" This data set is also available from NCAR/Climate Analysis Section: "http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/catalog/climind/pdsi.html"

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Supplemental_Information:

REFERENCE: Dai, A., I. Fung, and A. D. Del Genio, 1997: Surface observed global land precipitation variations during 1900-1988. J. Climate, 10 , 2943-2962. Dai, A., K. E. Trenberth, and T. Karl, 1998: Global variations in droughts and wet spells: 1900-1995. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25 , 3367-3370. Hansen, J. and S. Lebedeff, 1987: Global trends of measured surface air temperature. J. Geophys. Res., 92 , 13345-37. Palmer, W. C, 1965: Meteorological Drought. Res. Paper No.45, 58pp., Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D.C. Webb, R. S., C. E. Rosenzweig, and E. R. Levine, 1993: Specifying land surface characteristics in general circulation models: soil profile dataset and derived water-holding capacities. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 7 , 97-108.

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Beginning_Date: 18600101

Ending_Date: 19951201

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Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

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Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -177.5

East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 60.0

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -75.0

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Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD SCIENCE PARAMETERS

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > DROUGHT > DAI PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > LAND SURFACE/AGRICULTURE INDICATORS > DROUGHT INDICES > PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX > PDSI

Theme_Keyword: ESIP > EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION PARTNERS PROGRAM

Theme_Keyword: Dai Palmer Drought Severity Index [pol -60.00 75.00 -180.00 177.50]

Theme_Keyword: Palmer Drought Severity Index

Theme_Keyword: CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

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Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD

Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

Access_Constraints: None.

Use_Constraints:

None. Acknowledgement of CDC would appreciated in products derived from these data.

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Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: ESRL/PSD DATA INQUIRIES

Contact_Position: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: esrl.psd.data@noaa.gov

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Contact_Organization: DOC/NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSD/CAB > Climate Analysis Branch, Physical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Contact_Person: ESRL/PSD DATA INQUIRIES

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: esrl.psd.data@noaa.gov

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Contact_Organization: UCAR/NCAR/CGD/CAS > Climate Analysis Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Contact_Person: ADAM PHILLIPS

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aphilli@ucar.edu

Resource_Description: CDC012

Resource_Description: PDSI

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Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

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http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/psd1/

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DATA CENTER URL

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http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/

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DATA CENTER URL

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http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.pdsi.html

Access_Instructions:

Access to Dai PDSI data and documentation from NOAA/CDC

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Online_Option:

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http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.pdsi.html

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Obtain data set by HTTP.

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Online_Option:

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ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/dai_pdsi/

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Obtain data set by FTP.

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http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/catalog/climind/pdsi.h...

Access_Instructions:

PDSI data by Dai, etal. at NCAR

Fees: Not Available

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20011228

Metadata_Review_Date: 20090706

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Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: ESRL/PSD DATA INQUIRIES

Contact_Position: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: esrl.psd.data@noaa.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time