A Comprehensive Assessment of Drought and Climate Change

摘要：

　　Drought is one of slow onset natural hazards with great impacts in many aspects,such as economy,agricultural and human health.To well manage drought,the areal coverage,duration and frequency can be analyzed and estimated to provide insight into historical perspective of drought events as well the long-term variation of climate in the study area.This study tries to explore the natural of drought including its definitions,categories,trigger mechanism and possible mitigation methods.This research studies the drought characteristics in Wyoming,United States based on the rainfall data from the U.S Historical Climatology Network(USHCN).The main approach is Standardized Precipitation Index(SPI),which provides the means to analyze drought at different time scales and discusses the relationship between drought and climate change.

作者: Qian yimin Shuiping Yao Kun Yan Wenjia Tang

作者单位: Zhejiang Institute of Hydraulics and Estuary,Hangzhou 310000,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2018 International Symposium on Water System Operations(ISWRSO 2018)(2018年水资源系统及调度国际研讨会)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-10

在线出版日期: 2018-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）