Streamflow drought severity analysis by percent of normal index (PNI) in northwest Iran

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 565-573

  Nikbakht, Jaefar ^a   Tabari, Hossein ^b   Talaee, P Hosseinzadeh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

^b BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; DROUGHT; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STREAMFLOW; TREND ANALYSIS;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA;

EID: 84876440812     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0750-7     Document Type: Article

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