Performance of the standardised precipitation evapotranspiration index at various lags for agricultural drought risk assessment in the Czech Republic

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 202, Issue , 2015, Pages 26-38

  Potopová, Vera ^a   Štěpánek, Petr ^c   Možný, Martin ^b   Türkott, Luboš ^a   Soukup, Josef ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^c CzechGlobe Global Change Research Centre AS CR   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Multi scale drought; SPEI; SYRS; Wet; Yield crops

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT STRESS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWTH RATE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; TIMESCALE;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

AVENA; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; BRASSICA NAPUS; HORDEUM; SECALE CEREALE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VITACEAE; VITIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84919665288     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.11.022     Document Type: Article

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