African Drought Atlas

The African Drought Atlas (ADA), a project aimed at developing a comprehensive understanding of hydro-climatic extreme events in the Africa region. The ADA is inspired by the successful Drought Atlas for Latin America and Caribbean released by UNESCO-IHP and CAZALAC.

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Resource type Spatial data set
Date of creation 2024-09-10
Date of last revision 2024-10-31
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Metadata identifier African-Drought-Atlas
Metadata language English
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High-value dataset category Geospatial
ISO 19115 topic category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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