Bi-site analysis of meteorological drought duration: Theoretical modeling and application

Water Resources Management

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3005-3018

  Tarawneh, Zeyad S ^a   Elgaali, Elgaali A ^b   Hamdi, Moshrik R ^a  

^a HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b Higher Colleges of Technology   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Bi site drought duration analysis; Precipitation in Jordan; Return period; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

BI-SITE DROUGHT DURATION ANALYSIS; DROUGHT DURATION; DRY AND WET; DRY STATE; EXPECTED VALUES; HISTORICAL DATA; JOINT ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; OCCURRENCE PROBABILITY; PLANNING HORIZONS; PRECIPITATION IN JORDAN; RAINY SEASONS; RETURN PERIOD; RETURN PERIODS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; STATE SEQUENCES; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODELING; THEORETICAL MODELS;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; ECONOMICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RETURN PERIOD; STOCHASTICITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 70350341966     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-009-9420-7     Document Type: Article

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