Drought is a hidden natural hazard that involves complex climatic systems and has significant environmental social consequences. Due to the current state of catastrophic occurrences, there been an increased interest in monitoring droughts recent years. This study conducted meteorological drought analysis for five stations Great Man-Made River region located Libya. The Standardized Precipitation...

Droughts are one of the most damaging climatic phenomena, and the most complex natural hazard  which affects the economy, agriculture, public health and environment in large areas. The aim of this study is to compare drought indicators derived from tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) data in the south of Iran. Also the TRMM rainfall was considered, so as to investigate changes in the rai...

The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) has become a popular measure of drought across the globe. In this study, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was used in annual period of time to survey on drought. Also, in order to zonation frequency of drought, geographic information system (GIS) software and Kriging method used for extracting dry areas. The zoning maps show most severe drought i...

The objective of this study is to develop a safety propensity index (SPI) for both signalized and unsignalized intersections. Through the use of a structural equation modelling (SEM) approach safety is quantified in terms of multiple endogenous variables and related to various dimensions of exogenous variables. The singular valued SPI allows for identification of relationships between variables...

Comparability analyses are performed to investigate similarities/differences of the standard precipitation index (SPI) and the reconnaissance drought index (RDI), respectively, utilizing precipitation and ratio of precipitation over potential evapotranspiration (ET0). Data are from six synoptic stations in south Khorasan province in Iran.At the first for calculating SPI, the elevation-precipita...

The aim of this study is to investigate the patterns and trends drought occurrence in northern part Poland on example Łeba river basin years 1956–2015. meteorological was conducted basis Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) scale 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 months. Annual precipitation totals did not show significant changes analyzed period, except for station Wejherowo, which characterized by a increasin...

Problem statement: Forecasting is simple; producing accurate forecasts is the essential task. Experience suggests that financial managers often assume that because models used in forecasting are appropriate that they are effective. This study addresses this assumption. Effective is taken to mean forecasts where the Absolute Percentage Error (APE) is equal to or less than 10%. It has been report...