Application of factor analysis in defining drought prone areas in Lake Urmia Basin

Natural Hazards

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 267-277

  Ghorbani Aghdam, Marzie ^a   Dinpashoh, Yagob ^a   Mostafaeipour, Ali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Drought; Eigenvalue; Factor analysis; Lake Urmia; Principal component; SPI index

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EIGENVALUE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HOMOGENEITY; LAKE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA;

EID: 84884824912     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0706-y     Document Type: Article

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