Estimating drought in districts of Maharashtra

[Digvijay Bendrikar Shinde]

Namaskar Everyone!

Does anyone have district-wise, monthly rainfall data *or* monthly drought data for Maharashtra? 

I found this online resource where we can use the Google Earth engine and satellite precipitation data from UCLA for estimating drought, but I wanted to know if such data is readily available.

 Link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLppGmFLhQ1HJ5VhW6BZfhPX6spUcTY7SR&si=Yb5oDOXfaMOflaYt

Context:

I am PhD scholar at CTARA, IIT Bombay. I am trying to study the effect of drought prevalence on women and children's health and nutrition outcomes.

My hypothesis goes like this:

Severe drought -> scare the groundwater access-> women travel longer distances to get household water-> less time for child support and care-> high malnutrition in children.

To test this argument, I wanted to analyze drought prevalence in Maharashtra.

Any help would be appreciated!

Regards,

Digvijay

PS: if you are a researcher on environment/ disaster management and study rainfall/ drought/ heat waves, I would love to collaborate to study their effects on women and children's nutrition and health outcome indicators.

[Digvijay Bendrikar Shinde]

a friend sent me this Link to GoM agriculture department: https://maharain.maharashtra.gov.in/

but here the reports are in PDFs and we can download data in bulk.

Regards,

Digvijay

[Mithilesh Shah]

Hey Digvijay,

You may find the following resource useful:

https://indiadroughtatlas.in/#/map-viewer

Best,

Mithilesh