Toward a categorical drought prediction system based on U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) and climate forecast

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 551, Issue , 2017, Pages 300-305

  Hao, Zengchao ^a   Xia, Youlong ^b   Luo, Lifeng ^c   Singh, Vijay P ^d   Ouyang, Wei ^a   Hao, Fanghua ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and I M Systems Group   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Texas A M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate forecast; Drought prediction; NMME; U.S. Drought Monitor

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING;

CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DROUGHT MONITORING; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NMME; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECAST;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING METHOD; INFORMATION SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85020758886     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.06.005     Document Type: Article

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