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JDI-Precipitation Viewer

By Christopher Thompson, Lan Zhao1

1. Purdue University

Helps visualize the Joint Deficit Index (JDI) of Precipitation

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Version 1.4.1 - published on 13 Jan 2014

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Abstract

Droughts are prolonged abnormalities of moisture deficits that vary widely across temporal and spatial scales. Many hydrometeorologic variables are used to monitor the status of a drought. However, because of the dependence structure between all affecting variables under various temporal windows, an integrated spatio-temporal analysis of droughts cannot be easily achieved. A copula-based drought analysis was performed by Kao et al. using long-term monthly precipitation dataset for the upper Midwest United States. The spatio-temporal dependence relationships between various drought variables were investigated, and their joint probability distribution was constructed by combining drought marginals and the dependence structure. A copula-based joint deficit index (JDI) was adopted for an objective (probability-based) description of the overall drought status and compared to the Palmer drought severity index results. Results from the copula-based JDI provide information for drought identification, and further allow a month-by-month assessment for future drought recovery.

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  • Christopher Thompson; Lan Zhao (2014), "JDI-Precipitation Viewer," https://mygeohub.org/resources/jdiviewer.

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