Use of a standardized runoff index for characterizing hydrologic drought

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Shukla, Shraddhanand ^a   Wood, Andrew W ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW;

STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; STANDARDIZED RUNOFF INDEX;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 40849083737     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032487     Document Type: Article

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