Drought occurrence has great impact on the quantity and quality of ground and surface water which inandnbsp;turn affects different aspects of human life including agriculture, water resources and socio-economicissues. Few researches have been performed so far on spatial analysis of drought hazard in Iran. The aimandnbsp;of this study is to determine the spatial and temporal patterns drought hazard index (DHI) and producingandnbsp;the map of this index in Semnan province, Iran. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was deployedandnbsp;at 3 and 12 monthsandrsquo; time scale for generating the map of drought hazard Index (DHI). Kriging andandnbsp;Natural Break methods were elaborated in GIS environment for zoning and classification respectively.andnbsp;The results showed that in 3 month time scale, highest droughts hazard are observed in the northern andandnbsp;central parts of the province and for the 12 month time scale, droughts pose highest hazard to the southernandnbsp;parts would experience the highest values of DHI.andnbsp;
Nasrollahi, M., Khosravi, H., Moghaddamneia, A., & Malekian, A. (2015). Assessment of drought hazard index using standardized precipitation indexandnbsp;(Case Study: Semnan province, Iran)andnbsp;. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 3(1), -.
MLA
M. Nasrollahi; H. Khosravi; A. Moghaddamneia; A. Malekian. "Assessment of drought hazard index using standardized precipitation indexandnbsp;(Case Study: Semnan province, Iran)andnbsp;". Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 3, 1, 2015, -.
HARVARD
Nasrollahi, M., Khosravi, H., Moghaddamneia, A., Malekian, A. (2015). 'Assessment of drought hazard index using standardized precipitation indexandnbsp;(Case Study: Semnan province, Iran)andnbsp;', Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 3(1), pp. -.
VANCOUVER
Nasrollahi, M., Khosravi, H., Moghaddamneia, A., Malekian, A. Assessment of drought hazard index using standardized precipitation indexandnbsp;(Case Study: Semnan province, Iran)andnbsp;. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 2015; 3(1): -.
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