Spatial and Temporal Variation of Droughts in the Mongolian Plateau during 1959–2018 Based on the Gridded Self-Calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Yingchun Huang, Bowen Liu, Haigen Zhao, Xudong Yang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2022
• Subjects: drought monitoring; drought characteristics; scPDSI; run theory; drought trend and periodicity; Mongolian Plateau; Hydraulic engineering; TC1-978; Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes; TD201-500; Arctic; Kendall; Pacific
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/w14020230; https://doaj.org/article/fc48e8597e734b2fbd924f82f9f9f094

Drought monitoring is challenging, but it is required for improving agricultural production, protecting the ecological environment, and reducing economic losses in drought-prone regions such as the Mongolian Plateau (MP). This study is a systematic analysis of the spatiotemporal changes in the chara...