On the use of Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) for drought intensity assessment

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-389

  Naresh Kumar, M ^a   Murthy, C S ^a   Sesha sai, M V R ^a   Roy, P S ^a  

^a National Remote Sensing Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Meteorological drought; Normality tests; Rainfall deviations; Standardized precipitation index (SPI)

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; DROUGHT INTENSITIES; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; NORMALITY TESTS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

RAIN;

DROUGHT; INDEX METHOD; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARDIZATION; TESTING METHOD;

ANDHRA PRADESH; INDIA;

EID: 70349428682     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.136     Document Type: Article

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