Comparative assessment of drought indices for evaluating drought patterns in Peninsular Malaysia

• Main Authors: Ng J.L., Huang Y.F., Chong A.H., Lee J.C., Abdulkareem M., Noh N.I.F.M., Mirzaei M., Ahmed A.N.
• Other Authors: 57192698412
• Format: Article
• Published: IWA Publishing 2024
• Subjects: drought; drought index; precipitation; temporal analysis; Malaysia; Errors; Mean square error; Stream flow; Assessment methodologies; Comparative assessment; Drought index; Environmental issues; Moving range; Standardized precipitation index; Temporal analysis; Time-scales; Z-scores; comparative study; environmental issue; precipitation (climatology); rainfall; Drought
• Institution: Universiti Tenaga Nasional

Drought has been the main environmental issue in Peninsular Malaysia. Hence, this study undertook a thorough evaluation of drought assessment methodologies and focused on the temporal analysis of multiple drought indices, namely, the standardised precipitation index (SPI), deciles index (DI), percen...