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- Title
A new drought index that considers the joint effects of climate and land surface change.
- Authors
Liu, Meixian; Xu, Xianli; Xu, Chaohao; Wang, Kelin; Sun, Alexander Y.; Scanlon, Bridget R.; Zhang, Lu
- Abstract
This study proposes a hydrological drought index, the standardized wetness index (SWI), by combining the structure of the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index and actual-evaporation-based residual water-energy ratio, in which actual evaporation is estimated using the Budyko hypothesis. The SWI requires three parameters-precipitation, potential evaporation, and parameter
- Subjects
DROUGHTS; CLIMATE change; SURFACE of the earth; MATHEMATICAL models
- Publication
Water Resources Research, 2017, Vol 53, Issue 4, p3262
- ISSN
0043-1397
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/2016WR020178