Paper Title
Comparison of Different Drought Indices in Nineveh Governorate

Abstract
Drought is a natural hazard that causes huge economic and environmental injury. Different indices are used to determinate the magnitude and severity of drought. In this paper, three drought indices were applied in 3 meteorological stations for Nineveh Governorate, Iraq during 1981 to 2018, namely: Percent of normal precipitation, Deciles index and China-Z Index. This study aims to (1) determine the maximum and minimum severity of drought and duration of drought (2) select the best drought indices to detect the drought of the study area. Magnitude of maximum severity and length of drought were variance for Tel-Affer and Sinjar stations. While the magnitude of maximum severity and length of drought for Mosul station were comparable between all drought indices. The correlation coefficient was statistically significant among the drought indices for all station. This study recommends Deciles index as a good indicator to monitor the drought for the study area. Keywords - Drought, Indices, Comparison, Rainfall, Nineveh