Somalia Aridity Index for Drought Assessment

IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC) provides a spatiotemporally continuous long-term Aridity Index dataset for Somalia. The index is an effective estimator of drought status. The dataset was last updated on 2026-03 17 and is available in GEOTIFF format under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Drought status estimation based on the aridity index metric
• Long-term drought assessment based on spatiotemporally continuous data
• Spatial analysis of drought patterns in Somalia based on the geospatial raster format

Strengths

• Data is spatiotemporally continuous, enabling long-term trend analysis
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license
• Last updated on 2026-03-17, indicating recent maintenance

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC)

Collection Method

Likely derived from remote sensing and climate modeling data.

Time Range

Long-term, but specific temporal coverage is not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 09:14:28.066018

Geography

Somalia