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2 datasets found

  • High resolution global standardized drought indices

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The dataset consists of the standardized precipitation (SPI) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) index with a 30 arcsec (~1km) horizontal resolution....

    Last updated: January 28, 2025

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    • chelsa
    • drought
    • extreme-events
    • megadrought
    • multi-year-drought
    • potential-evapotranspiration
    • precipitation
  • Experts survey protective forest and combined extremes in Val Mesolcina

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results of a case study analysing the potential impacts of a compound meteorological extreme event on the protective forest in the Val Mesolcina. These...

    Last updated: October 28, 2025

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    • bark-beetles
    • compound-events
    • drought
    • extreme-events
    • forest-fire
    • natural-hazards
    • protection-forest
    • protective-effect