Drought indices revisited–improving and testing of drought indices in a simulation of the last two millennia for Europe

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Raible, Christoph C ^a,b,c   Bärenbold, Oliver ^a   Gómez navarro, Juan José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

drought indices; Europe; potential evopotranspiration; regional modelling

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DROUGHT; INDEX METHOD; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RUNOFF; WATER BUDGET;

EUROPE;

EID: 85039059068     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16000870.2017.1296226     Document Type: Article

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