The mean frequency of recurrence of in-time-multidimensional events for drought analyses

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-28

  Gonzalez J ^a   Valdes J B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; INDEX METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

EID: 11244257488     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-4-17-2004     Document Type: Article

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