Dataset

Drought events in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) region

DroughtSub-Saharan AfricaIGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre

Dataset Objective

To provide an estimate of annual drought events in the Greater Horn of Africa region.

Context

Data covers the following countries: Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

What is included

Dataset contains: duration, start date, end date, year and the drought event label. Drought events are defined based on the monthly precipitation of the area, if lower than 50% of the median value calculated.

Collection Methods

Dataset is based on literature review of: global monthly gridded precipitation dataset obtained from the Climatic Research Unit (University of East Anglia) and GIS modeling of global Standardized Precipitation Index based on Brad Lyon (IRI, Columbia University) methodology.