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BasicRainfallIntermediate

Rainfall Anomaly & Drought Index

Calculate rainfall anomalies and standardized precipitation index.

Pipeline (1 steps)
  1. Calculate rainfall anomalies and standardized precipitation index.
Datasets
  • chirps-daily
AOI modes
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Outputs the script produces
map Map layers
map Histogram
map Export GeoTIFF
map Area statistics
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rainfall-anomaly.js · 7 lines
// Rainfall Anomaly
var chirps = ee.ImageCollection('UCSB-CHG/CHIRPS/DAILY')
  .filterBounds(aoi);
var longTermMean = chirps.filterDate('1981-01-01','2020-12-31').mean();
var current = chirps.filterDate(startDate, endDate).mean();
var anomaly = current.subtract(longTermMean);
var result = anomaly.clip(aoi);
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