Real-Time Crop & Drought Monitoring System – RECENT

RECENT

RECENT combines a data from Multiple Satellites Observations Monitor and Assess Impact from Drought in Regional Scale. Daily/Monthly Drought index data with Satellite Rainfall and Land Surface Temperature are available to Visualize and Download through this Web Site (http://iis.gic.ait.ac.th).

The RECENT service is available for countries; Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao_PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, SriLanka, Thailand & Vietnam.

Satellite observed Rainfall and Land Surface Temperature data are used here to obtain a daily drought product called Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), which ranges from 0 (wet condition) to 800 (dry condition). Anomaly of drought index (KBDI) which is deviation from long term average if Drought Index is an Indicator of Drought Condition. Hourly global rainfall data at 0.1° spatial resolution is obtained from GSMaP NRT System by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It is derived from microwave radiometers (e.g., TMI, AMSR-E and SSM/I) and infrared radiometers (e.g., MTSAT, METEOSAT and GOES). This is an hourly rainfall product which is available to public after 4 hours after the observations. Land Surface Temperature (LST) data are obtained from MTSAT, a weather satellite of the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) with a spatial resolution of 4 km. LST is observed in every 30 minutes using 4 thermal-infrared channels.

The service is run and managed by:

Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo Japan (https://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/)

Geoinformatics Center, Asian Institute of Technology Thailand (http://www.geoinfo.ait.asian/)

Additional information

• Drought Index KBDI (Link) (PDF) (PDF) (PDF)
• Consistency of satellite-based precipitation products in space (PDF)
• Product Tutorial on Land Surface Temperature (Link)
• JAXA Global rainfall watch (Link) (PDF) (PDF) (PDF) (PDF) (PDF)
• JAXA Global rainfall watch web tool (Link)

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Catalogue of Climate Data Sources

A catalogue of climate data sources with links. Please feel free to add new links or report for broken links.

Data Type	Data Source	Link
Climate data (raw)	(Global Historical Climate Network: weather station records from around the world, temperature and precipitation)	ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v2/
	USHCN US. Historical Climate Network	ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/ ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/
	World Monthly Surface Station Climatology	http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds570.0/
	Antarctic weather stations	https://legacy.bas.ac.uk/met/READER/
	European weather stations	http://eca.knmi.nl/
	Italian Meterological Society	http://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/aktuell
	Satellite feeds	https://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&project=SORCE https://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/atdd
	Tide Gauges	http://www.psmsl.org/
	World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)	http://wgms.ch/
	International Argo Project	http://www.argo.net/
	International Comphensive Ocean – Atomospheric Dataset	http://icoads.noaa.gov/
	Aerosol Robotic Network	https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Climate data (processed)	Surface temperature anomalies	https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/faq/anomalies.php#anomalies http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut4/index.html http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/ann_wld.html http://berkeleyearth.org/
	Satellite temperatures (MSU)	http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/ http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-temperature https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/emb/mscat/index.php
	Sea surface temperatures	ftp://eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/OI-daily-v2/
	Stratospheric Temperature	http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/temperature/
	Sea Ice	http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/ http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/ http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/amsre.html http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/ice-area-and-extent-in-arctic http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
	Radiosondes	http://www.univie.ac.at/theoret-met/research/raobcore/ http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadat/ http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/http://web.science.unsw.edu.au/~stevensherwood/radproj/index.htmlhttp://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/temp/sterin/sterin.html
	Cloud and radiation products	https://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/products/onlineData.html https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/ceres/table_ceres.html
	Sea Level	http://sealevel.colorado.edu/ http://www.psmsl.org/
	Aerosols	http://dataipsl.ipsl.jussieu.fr/AEROCOM/ https://gacp.giss.nasa.gov/
	Greenhouse Gases	https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/ https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ https://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/
	Snow Cover	http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/index.php
	GLIMS Glacier Database	http://glims.colorado.edu/glacierdata/
	Ocean Heat Content	https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/3M_HEAT_CONTENT/ https://oceans.pmel.noaa.gov/
	Ocean CO2	http://cdiac.ornl.gov/oceans/
	GCOS Essential Climate Variables	https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/gosic
	NOAA Climate Indicators	https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams
Data Visualization & Analysis	GIOVANNI	https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/
	Climate Explorer	http://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi?someone@somewhere
	IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library	http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/
	Wood fro trees	http://woodfortrees.org/plot/
	International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)	http://www.ipcc-data.org/maps/
	Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium	https://www.pacificclimate.org/about-pcic/programs
	ClimateWizard	http://www.climatewizard.org/
	Global Change Master Directory	https://gcmd.nasa.gov/
	CLIVAR	http://www.clivar.org/data/global.php
	USA Weather RADAR	https://radar.weather.gov/
	Canadian Weather RADAR	https://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html