Drought Zoning of Kermanshah Province Using CZI Index

Drought monitoring using deciles index standardized precipitation index and effective Drought index in tehran province iran

Design of Wheat Drought Index Insurance in Shandong Province

Agro-meteorological index insurance can transfer the risks in the agricultural production, reduce the farmers' economic losses, and promote a sustainable development of agricultural production. However, traditional agricultural insurance with a single rate has the problems of the presence of adverse selection, the difficulty of determining premium rates and assessing the claims. As a new agricu...

Comparison and Evaluation of Six Climatological Drought Indices and Zoning of the Most Appropriate Index Using Inverse Distance Weighting (A Case Study: Isfahan Province)

Introduction:   Drought, as a natural disaster, has a major impact on agriculture and ecosystem of the affected region. Droughts occur mainly in areas like Iran being located in the world dry belt, with below normal levels of rainfall.  There is a need to study and predict the drought situation because, according to statistics, Iran is among the most water-stressed countries, with serious probl...

Using of SPI and PN index for determination of drought in the Fars province

Aridity and drought are two inevitable occurrences of the climate change in the region. So, any kinds of planning and futurism, without regard to them, lead to failure. Climate change cause drought phenomenon. The anomalies and irregularities in the precipitation mainly cause drought. Fars Province, one of the important centers of agriculture, population and industry in the country, with specif...

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Drought Vulnerability using the Standardized Precipitation Index (Case study: Semnan Province, Iran)

This study was conducted to identify drought event and its emerging regions in Markazi desert, Iran with focus onSemnan province in a 30 years statistical period. In this research, 61 stations having adequate data selected and usedafter extracting annual statistic from monthly and daily data. Standardized precipitation index values for each stationwere calculated and classified. The Results hav...

Zoning Droughts By Standardized Precipitation Index in Esfahan Province (Iran)

The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) has become a popular measure of drought across the globe. In this study, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was used in annual period of time to survey on drought. Also, in order to zonation frequency of drought, geographic information system (GIS) software and Kriging method used for extracting dry areas. The zoning maps show most severe drought i...