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In scPDSI: Calculation of the Conventional and Self-Calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index

Description

This is the sample dataset used in the examples of the scPDSI package. It includes monthly precipitation (P, in mm) and potential evapotranspiration (PE) for the Lubuge Bouyei and Miao Minority Autonomous County (104.5 degree E, 24.75 degree N) from 1960 to 2016 (total 57 years). Lubuge is also the centroid of the severe drought disaster of 2009-2010 in the southwest China.

Usage

data(Lubuge)

Format

Lubuge dataset:

P

monthly precipitation totals [mm].

PE

monthly potential evapotranspiration totals [mm].

Details

See description.

Author(s)

Data were ported to R by Ruida Zhong.

Source

Data of Lubuge were obtained from the CRU TS v4.01 datasets released by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) (https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_4.01/).

Examples

data(Lubuge)

scPDSI documentation built on May 2, 2019, 8:22 a.m.