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SUBMITTER: Li Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5430973 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Zhi Z Chen Yaning Y Fang Gonghuan G Li Yupeng Y
Scientific reports 20170502 1
While the method for estimating the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) is now more closely aligned to key water balance components, a comprehensive assessment for measuring long-term droughts that recognizes meteorological, agro-ecological and hydrological perspectives and their attributions is still lacking. Based on physical approaches linked to potential evapotranspiration (PET), the PDSI in 1965-2014 showed a mixture of drying (42% of the land area) and wetting (58% of the land area) that ...[more]