Automated estimation and analyses of meteorological drought characteristics from monthly rainfall data

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 880-890

  Smakhtin, V U ^a   Hughes, D A ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Drought indices; Monthly rainfall time series; SPATSIM

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DECILE INDEX (DI); EFFECTIVE DROUGHT INDEX (EDI); SPATSIM; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX (SPI);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

AUTOMATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INDEX METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SOFTWARE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33846782919     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

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