Meteorological drought forecasting for ungauged areas based on machine learning: Using long-range climate forecast and remote sensing data

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 237-238, Issue , 2017, Pages 105-122

  Rhee, Jinyoung ^a   Im, Jungho ^b  

^a APEC Climate Center   (South Korea)

^b Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Climate forecast data; Drought forecasting; Machine learning; Remote sensing; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGROMETEOROLOGY; DOWNSCALING; DROUGHT; INDEX METHOD; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; LONG RANGE FORECAST; MACHINE LEARNING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85012065300     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.02.011     Document Type: Article

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