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Dataset Drought: Palmer severity index of drought, 1980-2000, for 10 climate divisions in Wyoming
Data type polygon shapefile
Scale/resolution 1:250,000
Projection Decimal Degrees
Date 1980-2000
Source CLIMVIS, National Climatic Data Center, NOAA, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/onlineprod/drought/main.html
Method Textfiles with data for every month downloaded from website and averaged annually in Excel. Converted to Dbase, joined to shapefile of 10 climate divisions in Wyoming. The climate divisions were created by altering the existing 1:250,000 USGS hydrologic
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