On the potentials of multiple climate variables in assessing the spatio-temporal characteristics of hydrological droughts over the Volta Basin

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 557-558, Issue , 2016, Pages 819-837

  Ndehedehe, Christopher E ^a   Awange, Joseph L ^a,b   Corner, Robert J ^a   Kuhn, Michael ^a   Okwuashi, Onuwa ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UYO   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Drought; Rainfall; River discharge; Soil moisture; SPI; Volta basin

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MOISTURE; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE;

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS(ICA); LARGE SCALE OSCILLATIONS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGE; VOLTA BASIN;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GHANA; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT; HYDROLOGY; MULTIVARIATE STANDARDISED DROUGHT INDEX; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MOISTURE; STANDARDISED PRECIPITATION INDEX; STANDARDISED RUNOFF INDEX; STANDARDISED SOIL MOISTURE INDEX;

BURKINA FASO; GHANA; LAKE VOLTA; VOLTA BASIN;

EID: 84962732136     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.004     Document Type: Article

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