The high spatial resolution multi-scale monthly SPI and SPEI raster dataset over China from 1979 to 2018

The traditional monthly SPI/SPEI fitting by various probability distributions (Gamma, Gumbel, Logistic, Log-Logistic, and Normal for SPI and Log-Logistic, Generalized extreme value, Normal, and Pearson type III for SPEI) in 3-month scale with a spatial resolution of 0.1° × 0.1° developed based on the China Meteorological Forcing dataset. All data are in NetCDF format.