NESTLER - Drought Prediction Dataset

This dataset was created under NESTLER (oNe hEalth SusTainabiLity partnership between EU-AFRICA for food sEcuRity) Horizon Research Project, Funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement no.101060762.

Description:

This dataset is a time-series record of daily meteorological measurements. It spans from January 1, 1983, to October 31, 2023, covering 40 years of daily data. The aim of the dataset is to perform drought prediction.

The dataset is structured with a clear time component (YEAR, MO, DY) and contains a wide array of atmospheric and surface variables.

Data of four different African countries are contained into the dataset, specifically for Cameroon, Ethiopia,  Rwanda and Nigeria. For each African country several locations (towns and communities) are included to increase the spacial variability of the dataset.  

Two csv files correspond to each location, a csv containing the environmental features and the other csv file contains the SPEI (Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index) drought index, which is a multivariate climatic index that is used for detecting, monitoring and analyzing the volume and the duration of drought.

Also, another csv file is included with the exact coordinates of each location used for each African country. 

More specifically, the features contained at each _clean.csv file are the following:

YEAR: the year of the observation

MO: the mothe of the observation

DY: the day of the observation

QV2M: specific humidity at 2 meters 

PRECTOTTCORR: corrected total precipitation

T2M: temperature at 2 meters

T2MDEW: dew point temperature at 2 meters

T2MWET: wet bulb temperature at 2 meters

TS: skin temperature

T2M_RANGE: daily temperature range at 2 meters

T2M_MAX: daily maximum temperature at 2 meters

T2M_MIN: daily minimum temperature at 2 meters

PS: surface pressure

WS10M: average daily wind speed at 10 meters

WS10M_MAX: daily maximum wind speed at 10 meters

WS10M_MIN: daily minimum wind speed at 10 meters

WS10M_RANGE: the difference WS10M_MAX - WS10M_MIN

WS50M: average daily wind speed at 50 meters

WS50M_MAX: the maximum wind speed at 50 meters

WS50M_MIN: the minimum wind speed at 50 meters

WS50M_RANGE: the difference WS50M_MAX - WS50M_MIN