A spatio-temporal drought analysis for the midwestern US

Proceedings of World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009 - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: Great Rivers

Volumn 342, Issue , 2009, Pages 4654-4663

  Kao, Shih Chieh ^a   Govindaraju, Rao S ^b   Niyogi, Dev ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulas; Drought; Palmer drought severity index; Standardized precipitation index

Indexed keywords

COPULAS; DATA SETS; DROUGHT ANALYSIS; JOINT PROBABILITY; MARGINALS; MOISTURE DEFICIT; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TEMPORAL WINDOWS;

DROUGHT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STREAM FLOW;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 70350146891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41036(342)468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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