Integrated Index for Assessment of Vulnerability to Drought, Case Study: Zayandehrood River Basin, Iran

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1671-1688

  Safavi, Hamid R ^a   Esfahani, Mehrdad Khoshoei ^a   Zamani, Ahmad R ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Assessment; Drought; Integrated index; Vulnerability; Zayandehrood River basin

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED INDEX; NATURAL PHENOMENA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; VULNERABILITY; ZAYANDEH-ROOD RIVER;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; GIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER SYSTEM; RIVER WATER; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VULNERABILITY;

ESFAHAN [IRAN]; IRAN; ZAYANDEH RIVER;

EID: 84897578286     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0576-4     Document Type: Article

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