Assessment of drought frequency, duration, and severity and its impact on pasture production in Mongolia

Natural Hazards

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 995-1008

  Nandintsetseg, Banzragch ^a   Shinoda, Masato ^b  

^a Institute of Meteorology   (Mongolia)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Duration; Frequency; Meteorological drought; Mongolia; Pasture drought; Pasture production; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DROUGHT; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; PASTURE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 84874216647     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0527-4     Document Type: Article

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