Implementation Of The Multi-software Solution For The On-the-fly Calculation Of The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) As A Drought Indicator For South African Environment

The subject of this paper is to present the use of the integrated information technology to determine the occurrence and variability of dry (drought) and wet periods in the Republic of South Africa, in order to support environmentalists, meteorologists, climatologists, hydrologists, drought mitigati...

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Published inWIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment Vol. 41
Main Author Sakulski, D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Southampton W I T Press 01.01.2000
Subjects
Climatology
Computer programs
Data collection
Drought
Environmentalists
Hydrologic data
Hydrology
Information technology
Mathematical analysis
Rain
Rainfall
Software
Standardized precipitation index
Technology utilization
Weather
South Africa
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Summary:The subject of this paper is to present the use of the integrated information technology to determine the occurrence and variability of dry (drought) and wet periods in the Republic of South Africa, in order to support environmentalists, meteorologists, climatologists, hydrologists, drought mitigation planners and other professionals/institutions with information on how to put current hydrological/weather (drought) conditions into present historical perspective. What is important to highlight is implementation of the multi-software solution to complete this task. Analysing all steps of the SPI calculation, from the historical rainfall data collection and storage, receiving existing rainfall data from the radar and gr
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ISSN:1746-448X
1743-3541
DOI:10.2495/ENV000491