Regional Drought Analysis Based on Neural Networks
- 1 April 2000
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
- Vol. 5 (2), 145-155
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)1084-0699(2000)5:2(145)
Abstract
The main objective of the research reported herein has been to develop an approach to analyze and quantify the spatial and temporal patterns of meteorological droughts based on annual precipitation data. By using a nonparametric spatial analysis neural network algorithm, the normalized and standardized precipitation data are classified into certain degrees of drought severity (for example, extreme drought, severe drought, mild drought, and nondrought) based on a number of truncation levels corresponding to specified quantiles of the standard normal distribution (the 15%, 35%, and 50% quantiles were used here for illustration). Then posterior probabilities of drought severity at any given point in the region are determined and the point is assigned a Bayesian Drought Severity Index depending on whether the maximum posterior probabilities correspond to extreme, severe, mild, or nondrought. This index may be useful for constructing drought severity maps that display the spatial variability of drought severit...Keywords
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