ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: This paper presents the results of a case study focused on identifying drought events. The catchment of the river Blanice was selected as the study area. The total area of this catchment is 534 km2. The study investigated meteorological droughts, hydrological droughts and their coincidence. Data from two meteorological stations and three discharge gauging stations were used for the analysis. The data has a daily time step, and the length of the series varies up to 50 years. Simple procedures were applied, consisting in an analysis of drought duration, defined by threshold values, as preliminary work for further research. The results show that there is no major coincidence between the longest of hydrological drought events and the longest meteorological drought events in the study catchment. However, a coincidence was identified between hydrologic drought events of longest duration at each of the two stations.
