Objective drought classification using multiple land surface models

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 990-1010

  Mo, Kingtse C ^a   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DROUGHT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LAND SURFACE;

EID: 84901935384     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-071.1     Document Type: Article

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