[German Drought Monitor] HESS publication SMI based drought characteristics, GDM-v1-2016 and GDM-v2-2021 setups

SMI based drought characteristics; drought intensity and avg. drought area 1952-2020 used in https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-402, GDM-v1-2016 and GDM-v2-2021, SMI in depth 5-25cm and total soil (SM_Lall), Germany per gridcell and aggregated, SM cumulative density function based on 1951 -2015. Reference system and resolution GDM-v1-2016 (EPSG:31468, 4000m) GDM-v2-2021 (EPSG:4326, 0.015625 deg) We kindly acknowledge the German Weather Service (DWD), the European Environmental Agency (EEA), the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), the European Space Agency (ESA), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) as data providers. The scientific results have (in part) been computed at the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster EVE, a joint effort of both the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ (http://www.ufz.de) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (http://www.idiv-biodiversity.de). We would like to thank the administration and support staff of EVE who keep the system running and support us with our scientific computing needs: Thomas Schnicke, Ben Langenberg, Guido Schramm, Toni Harzendorf, Tom Strempel and Lisa Schurack from the UFZ, and Christian Krause from iDiv.