Research Article

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

Table 6

Classif. drought categories in selected stations based on SPTI-1 are presented for the year 2017. The index value of -1.5398 is given in January, which indicates that the SD occurred in the Astore Station. Further, in January the MD occurred in Bunji and Gupis with index values of -1.2001 and -1.1305, respectively. The varying drought categories can be seen in various months accordingly.

MonthAstoreBunjiGupisChilasGilgitSkardu
IndexClassif.IndexClassif.IndexClassif.IndexClassif.IndexClassif.IndexClassif.

1−1.5398SD−1.2001MD−1.1305MD−0.0928ND0.1063ND−0.0381ND
2−1.5398SD0.4943ND−1.1305MD0.9832ND0.4553ND−0.5366ND
3−0.3434ND−1.1119MD−0.6169ND−0.0695ND−1.0747MD−0.2155ND
41.4038MW0.9448ND1.2422MW2.0709EW1.8490SW0.7164ND
50.0369ND0.5504ND0.7799ND0.6277ND0.8382ND−0.1299ND
6−0.5360ND−0.7646ND−0.4345ND−0.2150ND0.6983ND−0.4870ND
7−0.4439ND0.5654ND0.5086ND−0.0537ND0.7859ND−0.3234ND
8−0.4273ND0.5021ND0.8873ND0.0310ND0.2006ND−0.2084ND
9−0.6874ND0.1387ND0.2467ND0.0446ND0.3438ND−0.1356ND
10−1.5153SD−1.1878MD−0.3152ND−0.9993ND−1.0048MD−0.5366ND
11−1.5398SD−1.3078MD−1.1305MD−1.0394MD−1.4267MD−0.5366ND
12−0.9624ND−1.3078MD0.2099ND−0.9757ND−1.2671MD−0.5264ND