Comment on 'Candidate distributions for climatological drought indices (SPI and SPEI)' by James H. Stagge et al.

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2120-2131

  Vicente Serrano, S M ^a   Begueria S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drought; Drought index; General extreme value distribution; Generalized logistic distribution; Log logistic distribution; SPEI; Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

DROUGHT INDICES; GENERAL EXTREME VALUES; GENERALIZED LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTIONS; LOG-LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTION; SPEI; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION EVAPOTRANSPIRATION INDEX;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INDEX METHOD; LOGISTICS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; STANDARD (REFERENCE); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84941695955     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4474     Document Type: Article

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