An insight into the Palmer drought mechanism based indices: comprehensive comparison of their strengths and limitations

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 119-136

  Liu, Yi ^a   Ren, Liliang ^a   Ma, Mingwei ^a   Yang, Xiaoli ^a   Yuan, Fei ^a   Jiang, Shanhu ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought characteristics; Drought indices; Palmer; Standardization; VIC model

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; STANDARDIZATION;

COMPREHENSIVE COMPARISONS; DROUGHT CHARACTERISTICS; DROUGHT INDICES; PALMER; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS; VIC MODEL;

DROUGHT;

ALGORITHM; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INFILTRATION; SEVERE WEATHER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION;

CHINA; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84958168834     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-015-1042-4     Document Type: Article

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