1999
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1999.tb03592.x
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ACCEPTING THE STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX: A CALCULATION ALGORITHM1

Abstract: The Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) has been calculated for about 30 years as a means of providing a single measure of meteorological drought severity. It was intended to retrospectively look at wet and dry conditions using water balance techniques. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is a probability index that was developed to give a better representation of abnormal wetness and dryness than the Palmer indices. Before the user community will accept the SPI as an alternative to the Palmer indices,… Show more

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“…Therefore, the confidence in the SPI results may be affected by the use of a distribution that does not provide a suitable goodness-of-fit for the rainfall data (Wu et al, 2005;2007;Sienz et al, 2012;Stagge et al, 2015). Although authors such as Guttman (1999) and López-Moreno & Vicente-Serrano (2008) have already provided evidences indicating that the gamma distribution may not always be the most appropriate choice; this fundamental step is frequently based on this 2-parameter distribution (Wu et al, 2007;Dutra et al 2013; among many others). Moreover, the gamma distribution may not give the best goodness-of-fit for the rainfall data summed over different timescales because it only has two free parameters (Wu et al, 2007).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, the confidence in the SPI results may be affected by the use of a distribution that does not provide a suitable goodness-of-fit for the rainfall data (Wu et al, 2005;2007;Sienz et al, 2012;Stagge et al, 2015). Although authors such as Guttman (1999) and López-Moreno & Vicente-Serrano (2008) have already provided evidences indicating that the gamma distribution may not always be the most appropriate choice; this fundamental step is frequently based on this 2-parameter distribution (Wu et al, 2007;Dutra et al 2013; among many others). Moreover, the gamma distribution may not give the best goodness-of-fit for the rainfall data summed over different timescales because it only has two free parameters (Wu et al, 2007).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…De acordo com Mckee et al (1993); Guttman (1998;1999);Heim Junior (2002);Blain (2005), uma das vantagens da utilização do SPI para o monitoramento da seca é a habilidade desse índice em ser estimado para diversas escalas temporais. Para Hayes et al (1999), essa habilidade torna o SPI um valioso método para estudos de disponibilidade hídrica, de curta ou longa duração.…”
Section: Aplicação Do Ipp-etp Em Demais Escalas Temporaisunclassified
“…A interpretação da variação da escala temporal de cálculo do IPP-ETP é similar a do SPI, indicada em Mckee et al (1993), Guttman (1998Guttman ( , 1999, Heim Junior (2002), Blain (2005) e exemplifica na figura 7.…”
Section: Aplicação Do Ipp-etp Em Demais Escalas Temporaisunclassified
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