The data entails a set of indicators for assessing climate risks and impacts on integrated water resources systems. This first tier is a set of indicators that are directly derived from readily available datasets from e.g. the Copernicus Climate Data Store.

Precipitation deficit is a common measure for severity of agricultural drought, for example in the Netherlands, but it is also used internationally (Narasimhan, 2005). The precipitation deficit addresses the need for drought monitoring, which was expressed by several river basins, including the Drammen, East Anglia and Danube (Hegdahl, 2023).

The STARS4Water project generates sets of indicators for assessing climate risks and impacts on integrated water resources system. The first tier is directly derived from global datasets with only limited post-processing.