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Drought Severity Index for 2000-2011 from MODIS

Data Provider Montana Climate Office
Date 01/01/2000 - 12/31/2011
Content Type Downloadable Data
Abstract This raster dataset shows yearly and mean MODIS Drought Severity Index with a grid cell resolution of 1000-meters (1-kilometer) for the years 2000-2011. The DSI ranges theoretically from unlimited negative values to unlimited positive values for respective dry to wet climate deviations from prevailing conditions. The remotely-sensed DSI uses operational global land products derived from NASA satellite observations, namely the MODIS terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) and vegetation greenness products. ET is a metric of ecosystem functional status and is directly related to the water, carbon and energy cycles of the land surface. The ratio of ET to potential ET (PET) is commonly used as an indicator of terrestrial water availability and associated wetness or drought. Satellite vegetation greenness indices (VIs), especially the Normalized Difference VI (NDVI), can potentially link climate changes (e.g. increasing frequency and severity of drought) and vegetation responses with land-atmosphere water, carbon and energy fluxes, and associated climate feedbacks (Atkinson et al., 2011). The DSI incorporates NDVI and the ratio of ET to PET into a single index. This is an experimental product in development. Detailed information on the DSI can be found in Mu et al.(2013) available at http://ntsg.umt.edu/project/dsi.
Purpose As part of the MODIS global terrestrial evapotranspiration project, the goal of the Drought Severity Index (DSI) is to use satellite remote sensing data to monitor and detect drought on Earth's land surface. The DSI enhances near-real-time drought monitoring capabilities that can assist decision makers in regional drought assessment and mitigation efforts, but without many of the constraints of more traditional drought monitoring methods.
Supplemental Information Processed from NetCDF raster file source using Python 2.7 code maintained by the Montana Climate Office.
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Data Access ftp://mco.cfc.umt.edu/dsi/Readme.html
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