Brief surveying and discussing of drought indices used in agricultural meteorology

Idojaras

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 23-37

  Dunkel, Zoltán ^a  

^a HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Drought; Drought definition; Drought index; Index surveying; Meteorological drought; Palmer drought severity index

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROMETEOROLOGY; DROUGHT; SURVEYING;

EID: 70349504830     PISSN: 03246329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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