Searching for the optimal drought index and timescale combination to detect drought: a case study from the lower Jinsha River basin, China

Drought indices based on precipitation are commonly used to identify and characterize droughts. Due to the general complexity of droughts, the comparison of index-identified events with droughts at different levels of the complete system, including soil humidity or river discharges, relies typically...

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Main Authors: J. Fluixá-Sanmartín, D. Pan, L. Fischer, B. Orlowsky, J. García-Hernández, F. Jordan, C. Haemmig, F. Zhang, J. Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2018-02-01
Series:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/22/889/2018/hess-22-889-2018.pdf