Examining the extreme 2017 spring drought event in South Korea using a suite of drought indices (SPI, SC-PDSI, SPEI, EDI)

Won-Ho Nam1, Michael J. Hayes2, Mark D. Svoboda3, Brian Fuchs3, Tsegaye Tadesse4, Donald A Wilhite5, Eun-Mi Hong6 and Taegon Kim7, (1)Hankyong National University, School of Social Safety and Systems Engineering, Anseong, South Korea, (2)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, NE, United States, (3)National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (4)National Drought Mitigation Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States, (5)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (6)Kangwon National University, School of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Chuncheon, South Korea, (7)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, St. Paul, MN, United States