Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-481-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-481-2021
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02 Feb 2021
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A revision of the Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) used in the European Drought Observatory (EDO)

Carmelo Cammalleri, Carolina Arias-Muñoz, Paulo Barbosa, Alfred de Jager, Diego Magni, Dario Masante, Marco Mazzeschi, Niall McCormick, Gustavo Naumann, Jonathan Spinoni, and Jürgen Vogt

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EDO Combined Drought Indicator European Drought Observatory (EDO) http://data.europa.eu/89h/e83b19ce-08c2-4e0c-b93a-5fd62be21e5e

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Building on almost ten years of expertise and operational application of the Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) for the monitoring of agricultural droughts in Europe within the European Commission's European Drought Observatory (EDO), this paper proposes a revised version of the index. This paper shows that the proposed revised CDI reliably reproduces the evolution of major droughts, outperforming the current version of the indicator, especially for long-lasting events.
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