Drought Monitoring by Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI) in Iran

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3485-3504

  Zarch, Mohammad Amin Asadi ^a   Malekinezhad, Hossein ^a   Mobin, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Dastorani, Mohammad Taghi ^a   Kousari, Mohammad Reza ^b  

^a YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Fars Education Center of Jahad e Agriculture   (Iran)

Author keywords

Drought monitoring; Evapotranspiration; Iran; Penman Monteith; Precipitation; RDI; SPI

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT MONITORING; IRAN; PENMAN-MONTEITH; RDI; SPI;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LOSSES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); WATER SUPPLY;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MAP; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

IRAN;

EID: 80053563252     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9867-1     Document Type: Article

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