Increasing the regional availability of the Standardized Precipitation Index: an operational approach

ABSTRACT The need to use a length of rainfall records of at least 30 years to calculate the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) limits its application in several Drought Early Warning Systems of developing countries. Therefore, in order to increase the number of weather stations in which the SPI...

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Main Authors: Monica Cristina Meschiatti, Gabriel Constantino Blain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Agronômico de Campinas
Series:Bragantia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87052016000400507&lng=en&tlng=en