Uncertainties in historical changes and future projections of drought. Part I: estimates of historical drought changes

Climatic Change

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 519-533

  Dai, Aiguo ^a,b   Zhao, Tianbao ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Drought; Historical drought change; PDSI; Precipitation; Streamflow; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DRYING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; HISTORICAL DROUGHT CHANGE; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PDSI; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); UNCERTAINTIES;

DROUGHT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DROUGHT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; INDEX METHOD; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STREAMFLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VAPOR PRESSURE;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHINA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85019039336     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1705-2     Document Type: Article

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