GUDR: Global Urban Drought Risk Datasets for Present and Future

1.2 MB of geospatial data outputs from research analyzing global drought risk in cities. The datasets were created by author Tristian Stolte and last updated on 2026-05-29. They are shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license as a ZIP file on figshare.

Use Cases

• Modeling future urban drought hotspots based on the described climate risk analysis.
• Assessing present-day city vulnerability to drought using the research outputs.
• Comparing drought risk across different global cities as indicated by the dataset's scope.
• Integrating drought risk layers into broader climate adaptation planning frameworks.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly linked to a specific research publication, providing academic context.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and sharing.
• Last update timestamp of 2026-05-29 18:30:47 is provided for version tracking.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Output from analysis for the research 'Global drought risk in cities: present and future urban hotspots'.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 18:30:47; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, with a focus on cities.