Multi-year droughts in Europe: Analysis of development and causes

Hydrology Research

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 689-706

  Parry, Simon ^a   Hannaford, Jamie ^a   Lloyd Hughes, Ben ^b   Prudhomme, Christel ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drought; Drought catalogue; Regional deficiency index; Spatial coherence; Spatiotemporal evolution; Standardised precipitation index

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SIGNALS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC DRIVERS; CRITICAL FACTORS; DEFICIENCY INDEX; FORECASTING CAPABILITY; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM; MITIGATION STRATEGY; RESOURCES SECURITY; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; STANDARDISED PRECIPITATION INDEX; SUMMER DROUGHTS;

STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DROUGHT STRESS; FORECASTING METHOD; INDEX METHOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; UNDERPINNING; WATER RESOURCE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84870834748     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2012.024     Document Type: Article

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