Investigating drought over the Central Highland, Vietnam, using regional climate models

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 526, Issue , 2015, Pages 265-273

  Vu, Minh Tue ^a,c   Raghavan, Srivatsan V ^a,c   Pham, Duc Minh ^a   Liong, Shie Yui ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Towers Watson   (United Kingdom)

^c Center for Environmental Modeling and Sensing SMART   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Climate change; Droughts; Regional climate models; SPI

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DROUGHT;

MANN-KENDALL TRENDS; OBSERVATION DATA; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SPI; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; STATION DATA; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DEVELOPING WORLD; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

TAY NGUYEN; VIET NAM;

EID: 84928395495     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.006     Document Type: Article

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