Empirical Orthogonal Function analysis of the palmer drought indices

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 981-991

  Tatli, Hasan ^a   Türkeş, Murat ^a  

^a ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aridity Index; AWHC; Climate variability; Drought; EOF; Monitoring; P PET index; PDSI; PHDI; Turkey; WPDSI; Z Index

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDEX METHOD; MAGNITUDE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL DEPTH; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

TURKEY;

EID: 79955640803     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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