The study of droughts by water budget method over Andhra Pradesh

Authors

  • P. RAKHECHA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v25i3.5248

Abstract

The study of droughts based on water budget method seems to provide a more realistic approach than on rainfall alone. The frequency and pattern of variation of the drought situations for a group of 9 stations in Andhra Pradesh during the last 70 years have been studied by computing aridity indices values from water balance considerations of Thornthwaite (1955) .From this study-it has been seen that a minimum of 3-4 effective drought years may be expected over each station in a decade and that liability to drought is maximum in Nellore. An examination of the year to year changes in climate shows that the disastrous drought years generally became arid in nature.

Downloads

Published

01-07-1974

How to Cite

[1]
P. . RAKHECHA, “The study of droughts by water budget method over Andhra Pradesh”, MAUSAM, vol. 25, no. 3 & 4, pp. 411–416, Jul. 1974.

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 3 & 4 (1974): MAUSAM

Section

Shorter Contribution

License

Copyright (c) 2022 MAUSAM

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

All articles published by MAUSAM are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This permits anyone.

Anyone is free:

  • To Share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • To Remix - to adapt the work.

Under the following conditions:

  • Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even
    commercially.