Investigation of meteorological drought Eslamabad-e Gharb using of draught indices

Subject Areas : Water and Environment

Rasoul  Bagherabadi ¹ (University of Tehran)

Received: 2022-01-28 Accepted : 2022-02-28 Published : 2022-07-23

Keywords: drought, Eslamabad-e Gharb, draught indices, DIP,

Abstract :

Drought is one of the most important climatic phenomena that is caused by climatic anomalies. Which occurs periodically due to lack of moisture due to reduced rainfall. Drought duration may vary from month to several years. Therefore, by monitoring and evaluating the drought, the damage caused by it can be reduced. Drought is one of the most important and destructive phenomena that in recent years has left many economic and social effects in the city of Islamabad, West. Therefore, in this study, the drought situation of Islamabad West using rainfall data in 30 years (1991 to 2020) using DIP software on an annual basis of drought status based on PNI, SPI, ZSI, CZI was used as a measure to monitor meteorological drought. The results showed that these indicators were consistent with each other, so that based on the above indicators, the results show that in Islamabad West in 1999 and 2014, the most severe drought occurred in the statistical period. In 2005 and 2008, drought occurred with a moderate drought situation.