EDO Drought News May 2011 Jürgen Vogt Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit Institute for Environment and Sustainability http://desert.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
SPI-1 May 2011
SPI-3 May 2011
SPI-12 May 2011
Cumulated Rainfall 1 Jan to 6 June 2011
FAPAR April to May 2011
FAPAR Trend between 03/04 and 03/05
Precipitation Forecast 7 to 17 June 2011
Explain better the methodology Key Questions Explain better the methodology Only one distribution (no choice) preferred Clear definition of reference period (start, end) Clustering of stations might be good (to avoid limited no. of stations) Gamma-3 (Pearson-3?) even better?