Global meteorological drought-Part 2: Seasonal forecasts

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2669-2678

  Dutra, E ^a   Pozzi, W ^b   Wetterhall, F ^a   Di Giuseppe, F ^a   Magnusson, L ^a   Naumann, G ^c   Barbosa, P ^c   Vogt, J ^c   Pappenberger, F ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b Group on Earth Observations   (Switzerland)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECAST EVALUATION; FORECASTING PROBLEMS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; SEASONAL FORECASTING; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84904726512     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-2669-2014     Document Type: Article

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