Indonesia, monthly Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) blend 1960 - 2021

IDN_CLI_SPEI_blend_0p042_1961_2021 is currently the only comprehensive high resolution Indonesia gridded historical dataset of SPEI blend and available for public. The SPEI - https://spei.csic.es/ is an extension of the widely used SPI. The SPEI is designed to take into account both precipitation and potential evapotranspiration (PET) in determining drought. Thus, unlike the SPI, the SPEI captures the main impact of increased temperatures on water demand. The IDN_CLI_SPEI_blend_0p042_1960_2021 is derived using precipitation and potential evapotranspiration from TerraClimate data - https://www.climatologylab.org/terraclimate.html, it has 0.042 degree gridded resolution, a monthly and available from 1958 to 2021. The calibration period is January 1961 to December 2020. The starting date of the dataset is 1960 in order to provide common information across the different SPEI time-scales. The SPEI blend integrate several SPEI scales into a single product, combine 3-, 6-, 9-, 12- and 24-month SPEI to estimate the overall dry/wet condition. The SPEI processed using climate_indices, an open source Python library providing reference implementations of commonly used climate indices. https://pypi.org/project/climate-indices/