Spatiotemporal variation of meteorological droughts based on the daily comprehensive drought index in the Haihe River basin, China

Natural Hazards

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 199-217

  He, Jun ^a   Yang, Xiao Hua ^a   Li, Jian Qiang ^b   Jin, Ju Liang ^c   Wei, Yi Ming ^d   Chen, Xiao Juan ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MWR   (China)

^c HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Comprehensive drought index (CI); Haihe River basin; Meteorological drought; Relative moisture index; Spatiotemporal variation; Standardized precipitation index (SPI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995303954     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1158-8     Document Type: Article

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