Research Article

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

Table 1

Climatological features of the monthly precipitation data observed in numerous locations (stations) in the northern areas. The mean (40.91) of precipitation in Astore is observed higher among other stations. The standard deviation (St.Dev) of the Astore is also larger than any other selected stations. Moreover, other characteristics of the Astore and other stations can be followed accordingly.

Variableā€‰AstoreBunjiGupisChilasGilgitSkardu

PrecipitationMean40.9114.3416.8616.7612.4220.63
1st quartile10.801.300.000.951.102.30
Median25.707.105.707.006.059.10
3rd quartile52.6317.1019.3819.3314.7326.75
Kurtosis3.017.6714.059.0210.085.70
St.Dev41.9318.9030.2123.5316.5725.90