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User's Guide
CARiDRO. An online Tool for Drought Assessment
Abel Centella, Arnoldo Bezanilla, Alejandro Vichot and Malena Silva
INSMET, Cuba
A User's Guide of
Develop, description and use of the Caribbean Assessment Regional Drought (CARiDRO), a web-base
online
tool to facilitate the development of assessment of drought events at regional and grid point
levels
using modelled and observed base datasets
Contents
Contents..............................................................................................
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1 Summary
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1.1 Context of this User's Guide .............................................................
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2 General description of the CARiDRO tool.............................................. 3
3 Using the CARiDRO tool ....................................................................
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3.1 Producing Maps of drought statistics and other graphic information ...... 6
3.2 Area average or one grid point outputs ............................................. 8
3.3 Latitude/Longitude cross sections .....................................................
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4 Practical examples of drought assessment ........................................... 11
4.1 Comparing the model outputs and observation in representing the drought process
characteristics
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4.2 Assessing the effects of climate change on drought process ................ 13
4.3 Using the SPEI to represent the drought process ............................... 15
5 Acknowledgements ..........................................................................
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