Global Drought Monitoring
From early warning to on-the-ground impacts, TerraDrought delivers near-real-time insights into drought conditions across the globe. By combining forecasts, observations, and impact reports, we help users anticipate risks and respond effectively.
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The Data Archive provides access to historic drought and climate data dating back to the 1980s. The archive offers a streamlined, user-friendly interface that guides users through data selection, customization, and retrieval, supporting both research and educational purposes.
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Select datasets
Users can select specific datasets related to all available datasets.
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Define a date range
Define a custom date range and search the archive for relevant records.
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Package is prepared
Once the desired parameters are chosen, the system prepares a tailored data package available for download.
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Identify & download
Before downloading, users are asked to provide basic information, such as their e-mail address and affiliation, to facilitate access and reporting.
The TerraDrought outputs is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences. Map courtesy of TerraDrought.
Full licence and funding statement
The TerraDrought.edu (as well as TerraDrought.eu) consortium is publicly funded and to this end we provide data visualization (primarily maps and charts) and services free of charge to all users. There may be requests that are not possible given workloads and resource limits but all outputs published on the website are freely accessible and free to use. Please give credit to our terradrought.edu partners as this allows us to continue to provide these data and service to the public.
This work is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License. It is allowed to share it with attribution, but not for commercial purposes and without modification.
Supported by the Czech Science Foundation Grant No. 23-050565 — Dynamic tracking of drought events and their classification on the global scale.
Global Change Research Institute CAS (CzechGlobe)
The Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CzechGlobe) is a public research institution and a European Centre of Excellence dedicated to studying the causes and consequences of global change — most notably climate change. The institute explores fluxes of energy and matter (especially greenhouse gases) within Earth's climate system and how these affect both natural and human systems, using tools that range from molecular analyses to global-scale satellite data.
More information at: https://www.czechglobe.cz/en/
National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC)
The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), founded in 1995 and housed at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's School of Natural Resources, is dedicated to reducing the impacts of drought on people, ecosystems, and economies. Its mission involves the scientific study of drought monitoring and the development of practical planning strategies to build resilience worldwide. As the academic partner and web host of the U.S. Drought Monitor, NDMC plays a central role in producing a weekly drought overview for the United States, in collaboration with the USDA and NOAA.
More information at: https://drought.unl.edu/
We would like to acknowledge previous or existing drought and drought impact monitoring platforms and projects: