Developing and evaluating drought indicators for decision-making

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1793-1803

  Steinemann, Anne ^a,c   Iacobellis, Sam F ^a   Cayan, Daniel R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c The University of Melbourne   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drought; Planning

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941265142     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0234.1     Document Type: Article

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