Drought hazard assessment and spatial characteristics analysis in China

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 235-249

  He, Bin ^a,b,c   Lü, Aifeng ^a   Wu, Jianjun ^d   Zhao, Lin ^d   Liu, Ming ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c College of Global Change and Earth System ^*  (China)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

drought; GIS; grid; hazard; spatial characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957493254     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-011-0841-x     Document Type: Article

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