A nonparametric multivariate multi-index drought monitoring framework

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-101

  Hao, Zengchao ^a   Aghakouchak, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Hydrology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894056578     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-0160.1     Document Type: Article

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