Agricultural drought: Assessment & monitoring

Mausam

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 131-142

  Sesha Sai, M V R ^a   Murthy, C S ^a   Chandrasekar, K ^a   Jeyaseelan, A T ^a   Diwakar, P G ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Agricultural drought; Assessment; Challenges; Extreme weather; Mitigation; Monitoring; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015500305     PISSN: 02529416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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