Accepting the standardized precipitation index: A calculation algorithm

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 311-322

  Guttman, Nathaniel B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Palmer Index; Precipitation probability distributions; Standardized Precipitation Index

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; STANDARDIZATION; STANDARDS;

PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; METHODOLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 0032910542     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb03592.x     Document Type: Article

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