Characterization of Meteorological Drought Using Monte Carlo Feature Selection and Steady-State Probabilities

Figure 11

Varying drought categories observed in various stations for SPTI-1. Based on SPTI, the several drought categories appeared in selected stations. The higher the category values means the drought category is prevalent among other drought categories, which means possible measures should be prepared according to the drought category that is most prevalent in any station. The ND category has most likely to occur in several stations. For example, in Skardu the ND has occurred 474 times and in Astore ND has occurred 382 times. In Gupis, ND occurred 315 times, and in Bunji and Gilgit, it has occurred 373 and 372 times, respectively.