Examples of PDSI in a sentence
The advantage of the PDSI is that it is standardized to local climate, so it can be applied to any part of the country to demonstrate relative drought or rainfall conditions.
Finally, in the event of a claim, PDSI demonstrates that there may still be coverage for the indemnitee's liability, even if the indemnitor failed to name the indemnitee as an additional insured.
At: http://www.environment.gov.au/indigenous/ipa/index.html (viewed 2 December 2008).
An existing index called the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) that used temperature and precipitation levels to determine dryness, measuring a departure from the normal rainfall in a given area.
A monthly PDSI value below -2.0 indicates moderate drought, and a value below -3.0 indicates severe drought.The U.S. Drought Monitor tracks drought conditions in Rhode Island and in the rest of the nation.