The survey of climatic drought trend in Iran

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 851-863

  Bari Abarghouei, Hossein ^a   Asadi Zarch, Mohammad Amin ^b   Dastorani, Mohammad Taghi ^b   Kousari, Mohammad Reza ^c   Safari Zarch, Mehdi ^a  

^a PAYAME NOOR UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Fars Organization Center of Jahad Agriculture   (Iran)

Author keywords

Climate; Drought; Standardized Precipitation Index; Survey

Indexed keywords

CASPIAN SEA; CLIMATE; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; DROUGHT MONITORING; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; MANN-KENDALL; NATURAL HAZARD; NON-PARAMETRIC; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; SYNOPTIC STATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; STATISTICAL TESTS; STREAM FLOW; SURVEYS; TIME SERIES;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; MONITORING SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TREND ANALYSIS;

IRAN;

EID: 79959376031     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-011-0491-7     Document Type: Article

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