Hydro-Climatological Drought Analyses and Projections Using Meteorological and Hydrological Drought Indices: A Case Study in Blue River Basin, Oklahoma

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2761-2779

  Liu, Lu ^a,b,c   Hong, Yang ^a,b,c   Bednarczyk, Christopher N ^c,d   Yong, Bin ^a,e   Shafer, Mark A ^b   Riley, Rachel ^b   Hocker, James E ^b  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blue River Basin; Climate change; Drought index; GCMs

Indexed keywords

BLUE RIVER; CHANGING CLIMATE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DROUGHT ANALYSIS; DROUGHT INDICES; GCMS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; LAG-TIME; LOWER CORRELATION; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; MINIMUM VALUE; MONTHLY WATER BALANCE MODEL; OKLAHOMA; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PROJECTION PERIOD; RESOURCE MANAGERS; RUNOFF DATA; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TEMPERATURE DATA; TIME-PERIODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER BUDGET; WATER RESOURCE;

BLUE BASIN; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862632405     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0044-y     Document Type: Article

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