Identification of hydrologic drought triggers from hydroclimatic predictor variables

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4476-4492

  Maity, Rajib ^a   Ramadas, Meenu ^b   Govindaraju, Rao S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

asymmetric Archimedean copulas; drought triggers; principal component analysis; probabilistic prediction; streamflow

Indexed keywords

DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICS; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

ARCHIMEDEAN COPULA; EXPECTED VALUES; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABLES; HYDROLOGIC DROUGHTS; MITIGATION PLANS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT STRESS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAMFLOW; WATERSHED;

EID: 84880870950     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20346     Document Type: Article

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