Hydrology and Earth System Sciences www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net 1027-5606 1607-7938 14 2 2010 10.5194/hess-14-271-2010 http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/14/271/2010/ http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/14/271/2010/hess-14-271-2010.html http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/14/271/2010/hess-14-271-2010.pdf 271 277 2010-02-12 Technical Note: Comparing and ranking soil drought indices performance over Europe, through remote-sensing of vegetation E. Peled E. Dutra P. Viterbo A. Angert angert@huji.ac.il The Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel IDL, CGUL, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Institute of Meteorology, Lisbon, Portugal In the past years there have been many attempts to produce and improve global soil-moisture datasets and drought indices. However, comparing and validating these various datasets is not straightforward. 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