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CSIC SPEI 08
References
official web page http://sac.csic.es/spei
Climate Explorer URLclimexp.knmi.nl/select.cgi?spei_08
Climate Explorer filenameCSICData/spei08.nc
Variable
namespei
unitsz-values
long_nameStandardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index
Netcdf global metadata
TitleGlobal 8-months SPEI, z-values, 0.5 degree
Version2.6
Id./outputNcdf/spei08.nc
SummaryGlobal dataset of the Standardized
\t Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) at the 8-months time scale. Using CRU TS 4.03 precipitation and potential evapotranspiration data
Keywordsdrought, climatology, SPEI, Standardized
\t Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index
InstitutionConsejo Superior de Investigaciones
\t Científicas, CSIC
Urlsac.csic.es/spei
CreatorsSantiago Beguería
\t and Sergio Vicente-Serrano
SoftwareCreated in R using the SPEI package
\t (\t>cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SPEI/;
\t
https://github.com/sbegueria/SPEI)
Callspei.nc(sca=i, inPre=./inputData/cru_ts4.03.1901.2018.pre.dat.nc, outFile=paste)
DateWed Feb 12 16:54:39 2020
ReferenceBeguería S., Vicente-Serrano S., Reig F., Latorre B. (2014) Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) revisited: Parameter fitting, evapotranspiration models, tools, datasets and drought monitoring. International Journal of Climatology 34, 3001-3023.
Reference2Vicente-Serrano S.M., Beguería S., López-Moreno J.I. (2010) A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index. Journal of Climate 23, 1696–1718.
Reference3Beguería S., Vicente-Serrano S., Angulo-Martínez M. (2010) A multi-scalar global drought data set: the SPEIbase. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 91(10), 1351–1356.
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