Candidate Distributions for Climatological Drought Indices (SPI and SPEI)

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 4027-4040

  Stagge, James H ^a   Tallaksen, Lena M ^a   Gudmundsson, Lukas ^b   Van Loon, Anne F ^c,d   Stahl, Kerstin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drought index; Potential evapotranspiration; Probability distribution; SPEI; SPI; Standardized Precipitation Index

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATIC WATER BALANCE; DROUGHT INDICES; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SPEI; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ACCUMULATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84945442414     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4267     Document Type: Article

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