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

Over the past decades, different drought indices have been suggested in the literature. This study tackles the problem of how to characterize droughts by defining a framework and proposing a generalized family of drought indices that is flexible regarding the use of different hydrological fluxes in...

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Main Authors: Christoph C. Raible, Oliver Bärenbold, Juan José Gómez-navarro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Tellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2017.1296226