Monitoring Drought with the Combined Drought Index in Kenya

Developments in Earth Surface Processes

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages 341-356

  Balint, Zoltan ^a   Mutua, Francis ^b   Muchiri, Peris ^a   Omuto, Christian T ^b  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Combined Drought Index; Drought; Drought early warning; Drought management; Drought monitoring; Food security; Natural hazards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886007172     PISSN: 09282025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59559-1.00023-2     Document Type: Chapter

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