Identification of long-term annual pattern of meteorological drought based on spatiotemporal methods: evaluation of different geostatistical approaches

Natural Hazards

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 515-541

  Bayat, Bardia ^a   Nasseri, Mohsen ^a   Zahraie, Banafsheh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bayesian maximum entropy (BME); Geostatistical simulation; Long term drought pattern; Ordinary kriging (OK); Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925539241     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1499-3     Document Type: Article

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