Assessing temporal characteristics of meteorological drought trends in the Anantapuramu district, Andhra Pradesh

Drought is universally acknowledged as a phenomenon associated with scarcity of water. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) expresses the actual rainfall as standardized departure from rainfall probability distribution function. In this study severity and spatial pattern of meteorological drought was analyzed in the Anantapuramu District, Andhra Pradesh, India using multi-temporal SPI.