Drought Propagation Patterns under Naturalized Condition Using Daily Hydrometeorological Data

Table 2

Summary of drought characteristics of meteorological drought events based on the 5 different threshold values.

Threshold		Number of single deficits		Drought events
				Drought duration	Deficit volume
Percentile of observed precipitation	60th	139	Mean	30.15 day	7.01 mm
			SD	11.39	24.89
	70th	134	Mean	25.61 day	5.43 mm
			SD	8.86	19.02
	80th	131	Mean	24.13 day	5.22 mm
			SD	7.48	16.19
	90th	124	Mean	22.25 day	4.49 mm
			SD	7.07	14.87
	95th	112	Mean	17.51 day	3.77 mm
			SD	6.21	14.25

“SD” represents standard deviation.