Regional hydrological drought monitoring using principal components analysis

Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Arabzadeh, Rezgar ^a   Kholoosi, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Bazrafshan, Javad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hydrological drought; Iran; Principal components analysis (PCA); Regional analysis; Streamflow

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; REGIONAL PLANNING; STREAM FLOW; TIME MEASUREMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

FIRST PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; HYDROLOGICAL DROUGHTS; HYDROMETRIC STATIONS; IRAN; MULTIPLE TIME SCALE; MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; REGIONAL ANALYSIS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DROUGHT; MONITORING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGIONAL PATTERN; STREAMFLOW;

GILAN; IRAN; SEFIDROOD BASIN;

EID: 84951186509     PISSN: 07339437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IR.1943-4774.0000925     Document Type: Article

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