New drought frequency index: Definition and comparative performance analysis

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  González, Javier ^a   Valdés, Juan B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY;

COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; DROUGHT CHARACTERIZATION; FREQUENCY INDEX;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY;

DROUGHT; EXTREME EVENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 33846366415     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004308     Document Type: Article

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