Monitoring drought: An evaluation of meteorological drought indices

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 64-88

  Quiring, Steven M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; INDEX METHOD; METEOROLOGY; MONITORING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TREND ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59849125946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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