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  The Professional GeographerVolume 58 Issue 4, Pages 460 - 469 Published Online: 20 Oct 2006 © Copyright 2007 by Association of American Geographers
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 115K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Climatological Drought in Arizona: An Analysis of Indicators for Guiding the Governor's Drought Task Force Copyright © Copyright 2006 by Association of American Geographers. KEYWORDS Arizona • drought • drought monitoring • PDSI • SPI ABSTRACTLacking a federal policy to address local water deficiencies within the United States, many states have developed their own methods for monitoring drought in an effort to mitigate its effects. This article provides an overview of efforts to standardize the use of drought indices in order to compare recent and historical drought both spatially and temporally for Arizona. Yearly averages of the Palmer Drought Severity Index and the Standardized Precipitation Index are placed into a frequency distribution to create standardization among the indices. The 1896–1904 drought ranked as the most severe, although the 1996–2004 drought was a close second. Initial submission, May 2004; revised submissions, May and October 2005; final acceptance, November 2005 |  |
