Toward mapping gridded drought indices to evaluate local drought in a rapidly changing global environment

Water Resources Management

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3859-3869

  Ryu, Jae H ^a   Sohrabi, Mohammad ^a   Acharya, Anil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Drought index; Drought management; Drought visualization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VISUALIZATION; WATER RESOURCES;

ADVANCED VISUALIZATIONS; DROUGHT INDICES; DROUGHT MANAGEMENT; HYDROLOGIC DROUGHTS; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; REGIONAL WATER RESOURCES; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

DROUGHT;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; MAPPING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STRATEGIC APPROACH; VISUALIZATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84927804733     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-014-0714-z     Document Type: Article

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