Assessment of drought hazard impact on wheat cultivation using standardized precipitation index in Iran

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4463-4473

  Mansouri Daneshvar, Mohammad Reza ^a,b   Bagherzadeh, Ali ^b   Khosravi, Mahmood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SISTAN AND BALUCHESTAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Drought hazard index (DHI); Geographical information system (GIS); Standard precipitation index (SPI); Wheat cultivation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE; CORRELATION; CROP PRODUCTION; CULTIVATION; DATA SET; DROUGHT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; WHEAT;

IRAN;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84885913826     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-012-0695-2     Document Type: Article

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