A new standardized Palmer drought index for hydro-meteorological use

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 5645-5661

  Ma, Mingwei ^a   Ren, Liliang ^a   Yuan, Fei ^a   Jiang, Shanhu ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Kong, Hao ^a   Gong, Luyan ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought indices; Palmer; Probability distribution; Standardization; Water balance

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECONOMICS; MOISTURE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STANDARDIZATION; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING; DROUGHT INDICES; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; PALMER; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; WATER BALANCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84925362614     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10063     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Abramowitz M, Stegun IA. 1965. Handbook of Mathematical Functions, with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables. Dover Publications: New York, U.S.; 1046.
2. Alley WM. 1984. The Palmer drought severity index: limitations and assumptions. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 23(7): 1100-1109. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1984)023<60;1100:TPDSIL>2.0.CO;2
3. Cook ER, Meko DM, Stahle DW, Cleaveland MK. 1999. Drought reconstructions for the continental United States. Journal of Climate 12(4): 1145-1162. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<60;1145:DRFTCU>2.0.CO;2
4. Dai A, Trenberth KE, Qian TT. 2004. A global dataset of Palmer drought severity index for 1870-2002: relationship with soil moisture and effects of surface warming. Journal of Hydrometeorology 5(6): 1117-1130. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-386.1
5. Guttman NB. 1998. Comparing the Palmer drought index and the standardized precipitation index. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 34(1): 113-121. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1998.tb05964.x
6. Guttman NB. 1999. Accepting the standardized precipitation index: a calculation algorithm. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 35(2): 311-322. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb03592.x
7. Guttman NB, Wallis JR, Hosking JRM. 1992. Spatial comparability of the Palmer drought severity index. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 28(6): 1111-1119. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1992.tb04022.x
8. Hayes MJ, Svoboda MD, Wilhite DA, Vanyarkho OV. 1999. Monitoring the 1996 drought using the standardized precipitation index. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 80(3): 429-438. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<60;0429:MTDUTS>2.0.CO;2
9. Heddinghaus TR, Sabol P. 1991. A review of the Palmer drought severity index and where do we go from here? In Preprints of the 7th Conference on Applied Climatology, September 10-13, Salt Lake City, Utah; 242-246.
10. Hosking JRM. 1990. L-moments: analysis and estimation of distributions using linear combinations of order statistics. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 52(1): 105-124.
11. IPCC. 2007. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Core Writing Team, Pachauri RK, Reisinger A (eds). IPCC: Geneva, Switzerland 104.
12. Lloyd-Hughes B, Saunders MA. 2002. A drought climatology for Europe. International Journal of Climatology 22(13): 1571-1592. DOI: 10.1002/joc.846
13. Lorenzo-Lacruz J, Vicente-Serrano SM, López-Moreno JI, Beguería S, García-Ruiz JM, Cuadrat JM. 2010. The impact of droughts and water management on various hydrological systems in the headwaters of the Tagus River (central Spain). Journal of Hydrology 386(1-4): 13-26. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.01.001
14. Ma MW, Song SB, Ren LL, Jiang SH, Song JL. 2013. Multivariate drought characteristics using trivariate Gaussian and Student t copulas. Hydrological Processes 27(8): 1175-1190. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8432
15. McKee TB, Doesken NJ, Kleist J. 1993. The relationship of drought frequency and duration to time scales. In Preprints of the 8th Conference on Applied Climatology, January 17-22, Anaheim, California; 179-184.
16. Palmer WC. 1965. Meteorological Drought. Research Paper No. 45. US Weather Bureau: Washington, DC; 58.
17. Paulo AA, Rosa RD, Pereira LS. 2012. Climate trends and behaviour of drought indices based on precipitation and evapotranspiration in Portugal. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 12(5): 1481-1491. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-12-1481-2012
18. Thornthwaite CW. 1948. An approach toward a rational classification of climate. Geographical Review 38(1): 55-94. DOI: 10.2307/210739
19. Vicente-Serrano SM, Beguería S, López-Moreno JI, Angulo M, Kenawy AE. 2010a. A new global 0.5° gridded dataset (1901-2006) of a multiscalar drought index: comparison with current drought index datasets based on the Palmer drought severity index. Journal of Hydrometeorology 11(4): 1033-1043. DOI: 10.1175/2010JHM1224.1
20. Vicente-Serrano SM, Beguería S, López-Moreno JI. 2010b. A multiscalar drought index sensitive to global warming: the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index. Journal of Climate 23(7): 1696-1718. DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2909.1
21. Vicente-Serrano SM, López-Moreno JI, Beguería S, Lorenzo-Lacruz J, Azorin-Molina C, Morán-Tejeda E. 2012. Accurate computation of a streamflow drought index. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 17(2): 318-332. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000433
22. Vogel RM, Fennessey NM. 1993. L moment diagrams should replace product moment diagrams. Water Resources Research 29(6): 1745-1752. DOI: 10.1029/93WR00341
23. Webb RW, Rosenzweig CE, Levine ER. 2000. Global soil texture and derived water-holding capacities data. Available from: http://www.daac.ornl.gov (accessed October 2012).
24. Wells N, Goddard S, Hayes MJ. 2004. A self-calibrating Palmer drought severity index. Journal of Climate 17(12): 2335-2351. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<60;2335:ASPDSI>2.0.CO;2
25. Zhang L. 2005. Multivariate hydrological frequency analysis and risk mapping. Ph.D. thesis, Louisiana State University; 408.