Spring drought forecasting in mainland Portugal based on large-scale climatic indices

• Published in: Ingeniería del agua
• Main Authors: Santos, J.F, Portela, M.M., Pulido-Calvo, I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2015
• Subjects: Artificial neural networks; Hindcasting; SPI; NAO; SST; Redes neuronais artificiais; Larga; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/IA/article/view/4109; https://doi.org/10.4995/ia.2015.4109

The success of a strategy of mitigation of the effects of the droughts requires the implementation of an effective monitoring and forecasting system, able to identify drought events and follow their spatiotemporal evolution. This article demonstrates the capability of the artificial neural networks...