Drought analysis in southern Paraguay, Brazil and northern Argentina: Regionalization, occurrence rate and rainfall thresholds

Hydrology Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 792-810

  Portela, Maria Manuela ^a   Dos Santos, João Filipe ^b   Silva, Artur Tiago ^a   Benitez, Julián Baez ^c   Frank, Carlos ^d   Reichert, José Miguel ^e  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BEJA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA ASUNCIÓN   (Paraguay)

^d UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA NACIONAL   (Argentina)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Drought; Kernel occurrence rate estimator; Principal component analysis; Rainfall threshold surfaces; Standardized precipitation index

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ESTIMATION; GAGES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; STREAM FLOW;

CONFIDENCE BANDS; DROUGHT ANALYSIS; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; RAINFALL THRESHOLDS; RATE ESTIMATION; RATE ESTIMATOR; STANDARD PRECIPITATION INDICES; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

BOOTSTRAPPING; DROUGHT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD; TIMESCALE;

ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; PARAGUAY;

EID: 84938147391     PISSN: 19989563     EISSN: 22247955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2014.074     Document Type: Article

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