Datasets

ERA5–Drought is a global reconstruction of drought indices from 1940 to present.
The dataset comprises two standardised drought indices:
- the Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI)
- the Standardised Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI).

This catalogue entry provides monthly mean time series from the global ocean and sea-ice reanalysis ORAS5 (Ocean Reanalysis System 5), with data organised to prioritise temporal access at grid point locations rather than full spatial fields. The dataset enables users to efficiently retrieve long, continuous time series for individual ocean points, supporting analyses of ocean variability and change without the need to download and process large global gridded datasets.