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A Global Drought and Flood Catalogue from 1950 to 2016

Hydrological extremes, in the form of droughts and floods, have impacts on a wide range of sectors including water availability, food security, and energy production, among others. Given continuing large impacts of droughts and floods and the expectation for significant regional changes projected in the future, there is an urgent need to provide estimates of past events and their future risk, globally. However, current estimates of hydrological extremes are not robust and accurate enough, due to

Source details

Licence: GDFC archive is made available under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Evidence quality: 32.5

Listed in aws-odr public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• arn:aws:s3:::global-drought-flood-catalogue
• https://registry.opendata.aws/global-drought-flood-catalogue/

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