Monitoring the 2003-2004 meteorological drought over Pannonian part of Croatia

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2213-2225

  Mihajlović, Domagoj ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Croatia; Drought; Precipitation; Standardized Precipitation Index

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN GAGES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CROATIA; EXTREME VALUE THEORY; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; MONITORING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE;

CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845502049     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1366     Document Type: Article

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