Exploring the link between drought indicators and impacts

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1381-1397

  Bachmair, S ^a   Kohn, I ^a   Stahl, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MONITORING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW;

GERMANY;

EID: 84933521634     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-15-1381-2015     Document Type: Article

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