Gridded Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) using generalised logistic distribution with standard period 1961-2010 for Great Britain [SPEIgenlog61-10]

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1km and 5km gridded Standardised Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) data for Great Britain, which is a drought index based on the probability of Climatic Water Balance (CWB) - which is equivalent to the amount of precipitation minus the amount of evapotranspiration - for a given accumulation period as defined by Vicente Serrano et al. (2010). SPEI is calculated for different accumulation periods: 1, 3, 6, 12, 18, 24 months. Each of these is in turn calculated for each of the twelve calendar months. Note that values in monthly (and for longer accumulation periods also annual) time series of the data therefore are likely to be autocorrelated. The standard period which was used to fit the generalised logistic distribution is 1961-2010. The dataset covers the period from 1961 to 2012. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d201a2af-568e-4195-bf02-961fb6954c72

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-02-27
• Access contraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Tanguy, M., Hannaford, J., Barker, L., Svensson, C., Kral, F., Fry, M. (2015). Gridded Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) using generalised logistic distribution with standard period 1961-2010 for Great Britain [SPEIgenlog61-10]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d201a2af-568e-4195-bf02-961fb6954c72
• Harvest GUID: d201a2af-568e-4195-bf02-961fb6954c72
• Extent: Latitude: 61.026° to 49.766°
• Extent: Longitude: -7.557° to 3.554°
• Dataset reference date: 2015-11-09 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2015-10-01 (creation)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
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• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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