European drought climatologies and trends based on a multi-indicator approach

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 127, Issue , 2015, Pages 50-57

  Spinoni, Jonathan ^a   Naumann, Gustavo ^a   Vogt, Jürgen ^a   Barbosa, Paulo ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drought; Europe; PET; Precipitation; RDI; SPEI; SPI

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

EUROPE; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RDI; RECONNAISSANCE DROUGHT INDICES; SPEI; SPI; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

DROUGHT;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; DROUGHT STRESS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CARPATHIAN BASIN; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84940364481     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.01.012     Document Type: Article

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