Drought indices and their application to East Africa

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1335-1357

  Ntale, Henry K ^a,b   Gan, Thian Yew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Water Resources Management Dept   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Bhalme mooley index; Drought indices; East Africa; Palmer drought severity index; Precipitation; Standardized precipitation index

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FLOODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DROUGHT INDICES;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; INDEX METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA;

EID: 0141994478     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.931     Document Type: Article

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