Towards a Drought Watch System based on spatial SPI

Water Resources Management

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Tsakiris, G ^a   Vangelis, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Drought; Drought Index; DTM; Mesoscale; Precipitation; Spatial analysis; SPI

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DROUGHT WATCH SYSTEMS;

WATER RESOURCES;

DROUGHT; FORECASTING METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842430858     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WARM.0000015410.47014.a4     Document Type: Article

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