Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Drought Occurrences over Japan

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1087-1098

  Lee, Sang Min ^a   Byun, Hi Ryong ^a   Tanaka, Hiroshi L ^b  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climatology; Drought

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT DURATION; DROUGHT INDICES; DRY CONDITION; DRY SEASONS; FOUR-GROUP; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LOCAL CLIMATE; RAINY SEASONS; REGIME SHIFT; RETURN PERIODS; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

DROUGHT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

JAPAN;

EID: 84864934910     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0157.1     Document Type: Article

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