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.