Developing a regional drought climatology for the Czech Republic

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 863-883

  Trnka, Mirek ^a   Dubrovsky M ^b   Svoboda, M ^c   Semeradova D ^a   Hayes, M ^c   Zalud Z ^a   Wilhite, D ^c  

^a MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Drought climatology; RPDSI; RrZ index; RSPI; ScPDSI; ScSPI; ScZ index

Indexed keywords

RPDSI; RRZ-INDEX; RSPI; SCPDSI; SCSPI; SCZ-INDEX;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67649970629     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1745     Document Type: Article

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