期刊名称：South Asian Studies : A Research Journal of South Asian Studies
印刷版ISSN：1026-678X
出版年度：2015
卷号：30
期号：1
页码：149-157
出版社：University of the Punjab, Lahore
摘要：Drought is often referred a creeping disaster as it ta kes time to mature, impacts may linger on for a considerably longer time period even after the termination of the event. Pakistan is climatically an arid to semi - arid country frequently in the grip of meteorological droughts. Since Pakistan has an agro - bas ed economy, thus in drought years its economy cripples. The response of the government to this recurrently occurring disaster, has been reactive. This research delineates the pattern of meteorological droughts in Pakistan for the time period 1980 - 2010 and also defines droughts in the perspective of Pakistan's climatic conditions. Drought mapping has been a neglected area in Pakistan. This paper offers map showing the spatial pattern of meteorological droughts in Pakistan and reveals that Sindh and Balochist an are the most arid parts of the country and have a high probability of extreme meteorological drought
