Active Archive of Large Floods, 1985-Present
Master Index of Inundation Maps
Citation for the data:
G.R.Brakenridge, "Global Active Archive of Major Drought Events", Dartmouth Flood Observatory, University of Colorado, http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Archives/indexD.html.
The information presented in this Archive is derived from news, governmental, instrumental, and remote sensing sources. The archive is "active" because current events are added immediately.
Each entry in the table and related "area affected" map outline represents a discrete drought event. However drought is a complex phenomenon and this may require a compromise between aggregating and dividing such events. The listing is comprehensive and global in scope.
The Archive of Major Drought Events includes: 1) an online .html table of recent events, only; 2) Excel .xls and .xml files for all events, 2011-present, updated as the recent events html is updated; 3) a GIS (MapInfo format) file set (1 2 3 4 5) and 4) a .shp format file set (1,2,3,4), each providing drought catalog numbers, centroids, area affected outlines, and other attribute information and updated as the recent events html is updated. The .shp files are generated from the MapInfo files).
This work is made possible by data acquired by NASA, the Japanese Space Agency, and the European Space Agency, and funding support from NASA and the European Commission, through the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS) project, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. The Observatory was founded in 1993 at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA and moved to the University of Colorado, INSTAAR, CSDMS in 2010. The institutional support of both universities is gratefully acknowledged.
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