Evaluation of performance of drought prediction in Indonesia based on TRMM and MERRA-2 using machine learning methods

• Published in: MethodsX
• Main Authors: Kuswanto, Heri, Naufal, Achmad
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Environmental Science; Arctic; Merra
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545411/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2019.05.029

East Nusa Tenggara Province is one of the most vulnerable regions in Indonesia to drought. Drought prediction is definitely needed as a mitigation action to minimize the risk of drought. However, a sparse dataset has led to difficulties in accurately predicting future droughts in areas without meteo...