Characterising droughts in Central America with uncertain hydro-meteorological data

Central America is frequently affected by droughts that cause significant socio-economic and environmental problems. Drought characterisation, monitoring and forecasting are potentially useful to support water resource management. Drought indices are designed for these purposes, but their ability to...

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Autores: Quesada Montano, Beatriz, Wetterhall, Fredrik, Westerberg, Ida K., Hidalgo León, Hugo G., Halldin, Sven
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Costa Rica
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00704-018-2730-z
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Palabra clave:Central America
Drought
Hydrometeorology
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title Characterising droughts in Central America with uncertain hydro-meteorological data
spellingShingle Characterising droughts in Central America with uncertain hydro-meteorological data
Quesada Montano, Beatriz
Central America
Drought
Hydrometeorology
title_short Characterising droughts in Central America with uncertain hydro-meteorological data
title_full Characterising droughts in Central America with uncertain hydro-meteorological data
title_fullStr Characterising droughts in Central America with uncertain hydro-meteorological data
title_full_unstemmed Characterising droughts in Central America with uncertain hydro-meteorological data
title_sort Characterising droughts in Central America with uncertain hydro-meteorological data
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Quesada Montano, Beatriz
Wetterhall, Fredrik
Westerberg, Ida K.
Hidalgo León, Hugo G.
Halldin, Sven
author Quesada Montano, Beatriz
author_facet Quesada Montano, Beatriz
Wetterhall, Fredrik
Westerberg, Ida K.
Hidalgo León, Hugo G.
Halldin, Sven
author_role author
author2 Wetterhall, Fredrik
Westerberg, Ida K.
Hidalgo León, Hugo G.
Halldin, Sven
author2_role author
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dc.subject.es_ES.fl_str_mv Central America
Drought
Hydrometeorology
topic Central America
Drought
Hydrometeorology
description Central America is frequently affected by droughts that cause significant socio-economic and environmental problems. Drought characterisation, monitoring and forecasting are potentially useful to support water resource management. Drought indices are designed for these purposes, but their ability to characterise droughts depends on the characteristics of the regional climate and the quality of the available data. Local comprehensive and high-quality observational networks of meteorological and hydrological data are not available, which limits the choice of drought indices and makes it important to assess available datasets. This study evaluated which combinations of drought index and meteorological dataset were most suitable for characterising droughts in the region. We evaluated the standardised precipitation index (SPI), a modified version of the deciles index (DI), the standardised precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) and the effective drought index (EDI). These were calculated using precipitation data from the Climate Hazards Group Infra-Red Precipitation with Station (CHIRPS), the CRN073 dataset, the Climate Research Unit (CRU), ECMWF Reanalysis (ERA-Interim) and a regional station dataset, and temperature from the CRU and ERA-Interim datasets. The gridded meteorological precipitation datasets were compared to assess how well they captured key features of the regional climate. The performance of all the drought indices calculated with all the meteorological datasets was then evaluated against a drought index calculated using river discharge data. Results showed that the selection of database was more important than the selection of drought index and that the best combinations were the EDI and DI calculated with CHIRPS and CRN073. Results also highlighted the importance of including indices like SPEI for drought assessment in Central America.
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