This dataset contains drought indices derived from the 4-km daily Gridded Surface Meteorological (GRIDMET) dataset. The drought indices provided include the standardized precipitation index (SPI), the evaporative drought demand index (EDDI), the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI), the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and Palmer Z Index (Z).
SPI, EDDI, and SPEI are supplied on different time scales corresponding to the time aggregation of precipitation, reference evapotranspiration, and precipitation minus reference evapotranspiration, respectively. The time scales include 14 day, 30 day, 90 day, 180 day, 270 day, 1 year, 2 years and 5 years. The standardization is done by using a non-parametric standardized probability based method where plotting posi