New variants of the Palmer drought scheme capable of integrated utility

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 519, Issue PA, 2014, Pages 1108-1119

  Ma, Mingwei ^a,b   Ren, Liliang ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^b,c   Yang, Xiaoli ^a   Yuan, Fei ^a   Jiang, Shanhu ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulas; Drought; Joint probability; Palmer drought model; Standardized indices; Variation

Indexed keywords

COPULAS; DROUGHT MODELING; JOINT PROBABILITY; STANDARDIZED INDICES; VARIATION;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MONITORING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84907698355     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.08.041     Document Type: Article

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