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A near real-time drought monitoring system for Spain using automatic weather station network
Title: A near real-time drought monitoring system for Spain using automatic weather station network
Authors: Vicente Serrano, Sergio MartínDomínguez Castro, FernandoReig, FergusBegueria, SantiagoTomas Burguera, MiquelLatorre, BorjaPeña Angulo, DhaisNoguera, IvánRabanaque, IsabelLuna Rico, Yolanda ORCID RESEARCHERID SCOPUSID Autor AEMETMorata Gasca, Ana ORCID SCOPUSID Autor AEMETEl-Kenawy, Ahmed
Keywords: Drought monitoring; Meteorological droughts; Surface observations; SPI; SPEI
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: Elsevier
Citation: Atmospheric Research. 2022, 271, 106095
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106095
Abstract: Drought monitoring is essential to determine, at short time intervals, the main characteristics of drought events, such as their duration, severity, and spatial distribution. To ensure that drought monitoring represents a useful tool for governmental plans aimed at preventing or minimizing drought impacts, up-to-date information must be instantaneously accessible and it must provide high spatial and temporal resolution. This study presents a system that allows the automatic tracking of meteorological droughts in the Spanish territory, based on an open and easy-to-use online platform (https://monitordesequia.csic.es/monitor). This drought monitoring system provides two drought synthetic indices: the Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) and the Standardised Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). Information is provided on a quasi-weekly basis, in a grid format, with a spatial resolution of 1.1*1.1 km, and with data from 1961 to the present time. This drought monitor is updated based on the real-time information gathered from automatic stations, which in turn requires historic information to identify and track drought events.
Sponsorship : This work was supported by projects PCI2019-103631 financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and FEDER and CROSSDRO project funded by AXIS (Assessment of Cross (X) - sectoral climate Impacts and pathways for Sustainable transformation), JPI-Climate co-funded call of the European Commission.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/14867
ISSN: 0169-8095
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