Spatial and temporal analysis of drought in Greece using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI)

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 143-153

  Livada, I ^a   Assimakopoulos, V D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CORRELATION; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34347402605     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-005-0227-z     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Agnew CT, Chappell A (1999) Drought in the Sahel. Geo Journal (submitted)
2. CT Agnew 2000 Using the SPI to identify drought Drought Network News 12 1 6-12
3. WM Alley 1984 The Palmer drought severity index. Limitations and assumptions J Climate Appl Meteor 23 1100-1109 10.1175/ 1520-0450(1984)023<1100:TPDSIL>2.0.CO;2
4. Barrcelò, Mestre A (1995) Five-year drought continues in Spain. Drought Network News. October 1995
5. HN Bhalme DA Mooley 1980 Large scale droughts/floods and monsoon circulation Mon Wea Rev 108 1197-1211 10.1175/ 1520-0493(1980)108<1197:LSDAMC>2.0.CO;2
6. Edwards DC, McKee TB (1997) Characteristics of 20th century drought in the United States at multiple time scales. Climatology Rep 97-2. Colorado State University Dept. of Atmospheric Science Fort Collins Colorado, 155 pp
7. Geerts B (2002) The standardized precipitation index. Western Regional Climate Center, pp 1-2
8. NB Guttman 1991 A sensitivity analysis of the Palmer Hydrologic Drought Index Water Resour Bull 27 797-807
9. NB Guttman 1993 The use of L-moments in the determination of regional Precipitation Climates J Climate 6 2309-2325 10.1175/ 1520-0442(1993)006<2309:TUOLMI>2.0.CO;2
10. NB Guttman 1998 Comparing the Palmer Drought Index and the Standardised Precipitation Index J Amer Water Resour Assoc 34 113-121 10.1111/ j.1752-1688.1998.tb05964.x
11. NB Guttman 1999 Accepting the Standardized Precipitation Index. A calculation algorithm J Amer Water Resour Assoc 35 311-322 10.1111/ j.1752-1688.1999.tb03592.x
12. MJ Hayes MD Svoboda DA Wilhite OV Varnyarkho 1999 Monitoring the 1996 drought using the Standardized Precipitation Index Bull Amer Meteor Soc 80 3 429-438 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<0429:MTDUTS>2.0.CO;2
13. MJ Hayes 2000 Revisiting the SPI: Clarifying the process Drought Network News 1 13-14
14. Heim RR Jr (2002) A review of twentieth-century drought indices used in the United States. Bull Amer Meteor Soc, pp 1149-1165
15. Keyantash J, Dracup JA (2002) The quantification of drought: An evaluation of drought indices. Bull Amer Meteor Soc, pp 1167-1180
16. AU Komuscu 1999 Using the SPI to analyze spatial and temporal patterns of drought in Turkey Drought Network News 11 1 7-13
17. Livada I, Asimakopoulos DN (2002) Introduction to applied statistics. methods and applications. Athens: Symmetria Press, 650 pp (in Greek)
18. I Livada DN Asimakopoulos 2005 Individual seasonality index of rainfall regimes in Greece Climate Res 28 155-161
19. A Loukas L Vasiliades NR Dalezios C Domenikiotis 2001 Rainfall-frequency mapping for Greece Phys Chem Earth (B) 26 9 669-674
20. Loukas A, Vasiliades L, Spiliotopoulos M, Banzelis D, Domenikiotis C, Dalezios NR (2002) An assessment of regional droughts in Greece using two meteorological drought indices. 6th Hellenic Conference in Meteorology-Climatology and Atmospheric Physics 2: 708-716
21. Mariolopoulos EG (1938) Climate of Greece. Athens Greece (in Greek)
22. Martonne de E (1926) Une nouvelle fanction climatologique. L'indice d'aridité. La Météorologie, pp 449-458
23. McKee TB, Doesken NJ, Kleist J (1993) The relationship of drought frequency and duration to time scales. Preprints Eighth Conf on Applied Climatology Anaheim CA. Amer Meteor Soc, pp 179-184
24. McKee TB, Doesken NJ, Kleist J (1995) Drought monitoring with multiple time scales. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Applied Climatology. Amer Meteor Soc Boston, pp 233-236
25. WC Palmer 1965 Meteorological drought US Weather Bureau Research Paper 45 58
26. Rossi G, Sonna F (1995) Severe drought in Italy: Characteristics, impact and mitigation strategies. Drought Network News: October 1995
27. DA Wilhite MH Glantz 1985 Understanding the drought phenomenon: The role of definitions Water Inter 10 3 111-120
28. Wilhite DA (1995) Developing a precipitation-based index to assess climatic conditions in Nebraska. Final Report Natural Resources Commission 301 Centennial Mall south, P.O. Box 94876, Lincoln, NE 68509-4876, 66 pp
29. World Meteorological Organization (1975) Drought and agriculture. WMO Note 138 Publ WMO-392 Geneva-Switzerland, 127 pp