Hydrological response to different time scales of climatological drought: An evaluation of the Standardized Precipitation Index in a mountainous Mediterranean basin

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 523-533

  Vicente Serrano, S M ^a,b   Lopez Moreno J I ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TIMESCALE;

EID: 33646176212     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-9-523-2005     Document Type: Article

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