High-resolution (250 m) dataset for drought assessment in India

<strong>#################Summary########################################<br> We downscaled MODIS (MOD11A2) LST 1000 m to 250 m using the co-kriging method (Pardo-Igúzquiza et al., 2006), <br> and calculated various agriculture drought indices from the downscaled LST and EVI at 250 m.<br> The downscaled LST was then combined with EVI to evaluate various drought indices over India. <br> #################################################################</strong> <strong>################Various Abbreviation ##############################<br> Land Surface Temperature - LST<br> Enhanced Vegetation Index - EVI<br> Soil Moisture Agriculture Drought Index - SMADI<br> Normalized Vegetation Supply Water Index - NVSWI<br> Vegetation Health Index - VHI<br> Vegetation Condition Index - VCI<br> Temperature Condition Index - TCI<br> Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer - MODIS<br> #################################################################</strong> <strong>#################################################################<br> Downscaled LST at 250m<br> The "Downscaled_method" folder consist of original 1000 m MODIS (LST_1000m_MODIS.nc) and downscaled 250 m LST (LST_250m_Downscale.nc) data.<br> #################################################################</strong> <strong>#################################################################<br> Various Drought Indices for India during 2002 drought (Folder: Drought_Indices)<br> Here all the data names are represented as Julian day with corresponding year and Drought Index. <br> Example:- File name: NVSWI02033.nc; Drought Index - "NVSWI"; year - "02"; Julian day- "033"<br> For VHI, VCI, TCI, and NVSWI, values closer to 100 represent very healthy and value close to zero represent extreme stress<br> For SMADI, values closer to 5 represent very healthy and value close to zero represent extreme stress.<br> ##################################################################</strong> <strong>##################################################################<br> Time series of NVSWI between 2000 and 2017 (Folder: NVSWI)<br> Here all the data names are represented as Julian day with corresponding year and Drought Index. <br> Example:- File name: NVSWI02033.nc; Drought Index - "NVSWI"; year - "02"; Julian day- "033"<br> ##################################################################</strong> <strong>##################################################################<br> ##################################################################</strong>