Efficiency of Drought Meteorological Indices in Hydrological and Hydrogeological Drought Warning (Case Study: the watershed of Esteghlal Dam -Minab)
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Drought is one of the main natural causes in agricultural, economic and environmental sections. It is very difficult to quantify the characteristics of the severity, magnitude and duration of the drought objectively. Therefore, much effort has been made to monitor drought using a variety of indices. In order to investigate the meteorological drought on hydrological systems in the study area, were used from Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), SRI Standardized Runoff Index (SRI) and groundwater drought index (GRI). Then, the relationship between the indices, concurrence or non-concurrence of drought event was investigated. Finally, the best meteorological drought index for monitoring hydrological systems in the study region was selected. The results showed that comparing the correlation between the two meteorological indicators with SRI and GRI, SPEI is a priority in terms of drought warning, because it is able to show the occurrence of hydrological drought on a shorter time scale. There was no significant correlation at different time scales between the two SPI-GRI indices (cc = 0.18), which indicates the inadequacy of SPI to investigate the effects of climatic drought on groundwater level. Therefore, it is suggested to use SPEI instead of SPI to investigate the effect of precipitation changes on groundwater fluctuations.
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