A tool for calculating the palmer drought indices

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 6086-6089

  Jacobi, John ^a,b   Perrone, Debra ^a,b   Duncan, Leslie Lyons ^a,b   Hornberger, George ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

drought; drought monitoring; MATLAB; palmer; PDSI; Tool

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); MATLAB; TOOLS;

DROUGHT INDICES; DROUGHT MONITORING; NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTERS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PALMER; PALMER DROUGHT INDEX; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PDSI;

DROUGHT;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPLEXITY; DROUGHT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONITORING; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 84883302780     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20342     Document Type: Article

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