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Agricultural Drought Indices - US Department of Agriculture

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<strong>Drought</strong>s in the Segura River Basin<br />

In the search for drought indicators, the Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) was evaluated in the<br />

Segura River Basin for the last 65 years (Figure 6).<br />

Figure 6. SPI in the Segura River Basin.<br />

The SPI shows several droughts in the basin. Some <strong>of</strong> them are quite severe, like the last one,<br />

which has lasted for 4 years.<br />

Indicators <strong>of</strong> the Segura River Basin <strong>Drought</strong> Action Plan<br />

<strong>Drought</strong> Indicator Assessment<br />

The Segura River Basin indicator has two parts: the first one dealing with the resources in the<br />

basin (basin subsystem) and the second one dealing with the water transfer system (water transfer<br />

subsystem).<br />

The indicator is intended to reproduce water deficit. Water released from reservoirs is closely<br />

linked with demands and it is a good way to assess deficits. Several factors were taken into<br />

account when selecting the most suitable parameters to create the indicator. The graph below<br />

includes factors time series together with the water released time series. As shown in Figure 7,<br />

run<strong>of</strong>f is the most similar factor to the water released from reservoirs time series.<br />

Figure 7. Indicator parameters. Time series <strong>of</strong> hydrological variables <strong>of</strong> the global system.<br />

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