Monitoring the 2003–2004 meteorological drought over Pannonian part of Croatia
✍ Scribed by Domagoj Mihajlović
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 506 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0899-8418
- DOI
- 10.1002/joc.1366
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✦ Synopsis
In this article, the 2003-2004 meteorological drought in the Pannonian part of Croatia is analyzed using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) at timescales of 1, 3, 6 and 12 months (SPI1, SPI3, SPI6 and SPI12) at 32 stations. The distribution of monthly precipitation amounts for each rain gauge is modeled by a gamma distribution. A series of maps are used to illustrate how the SPI would have assisted in detecting the onset of the drought and monitoring its progression. Furthermore, the magnitude and duration of the meteorological drought of 2003-2004 for timescales of 1, 3, 6 and 12 months at station Zagreb Gric (Croatia) were analyzed and compared to those of the historical droughts in the twentieth century using extreme value theory.