Characteristics and trends in various forms of the Palmer Drought Severity Index during 1900-2008

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Dai, Aiguo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER SUPPLY;

20TH CENTURY; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE DATA; DRY AND WET; DRY AREAS; EAST ASIA; EURASIA; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; LAND AREAS; LONG-TERM TREND; MODEL PREDICTION; NON-GAUSSIAN; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PENMAN-MONTEITH; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RIVER BASINS; SELF CALIBRATION; SELF-CALIBRATING; SOUTH ASIA; UPWARD TREND; WATER STORAGE; WESTERN EUROPE;

DRYING;

ARID REGION; ARIDITY; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; GRACE; HISTOGRAM; INDEX METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 79960107077     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015541     Document Type: Article

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