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https://doi.org/10.21861/HGG.2017.79.02.01
Aridity assessment within southern Romania and northern Bulgaria
Alina Vlăduţ
orcid.org/0000-0002-7388-5335
; University of Craiova, Faculty of Sciences, Geography Department
Nina Nikolova
orcid.org/0000-0001-5782-7111
; St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Faculty of Geology and Geography
Mihaela Licurici
; University of Craiova, Faculty of Sciences, Geography Department
Sažetak
Drought and aridity assessments have become issues of global importance as temperatures increase, precipitation amounts fluctuate, and socio-economic demands rise. Southern Romania and northern Bulgaria are the most intensively agriculturally used regions in both countries. Thus, widely-used aridity indices have been applied to the combined area, which generally highlighted a similar territorial pattern. The areas most affected by aridity include the Danube Delta, the Black Sea shore, and part of the Danube Alluvial Plain (according to the De Martonne Aridity Index, Gaussen correlation, and Selyaninov's hydrothermal coefficient). The Pearson correlation coefficient highlighted significant statistical correlations among the applied indices, except for the Pinna Combinative Index, which had correlation values between 0.69 (Ip/IE) and 0.74 (Ip/HTC).
Ključne riječi
aridity indices; aridity assessment; southern Romania; northern Bulgaria
Hrčak ID:
191824
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2017.
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