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Water Balance and Drought
In this chapter, you will learn simple water balance calculations using remote sensing-derived products related to precipitation and...
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Assessment of Drought Vulnerability Using Meteorological Drought Index in Shimsha Basin
A major obstacle to sustainable development is drought. India is an agricultural predominant country and a majority of the agricultural land is...
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Assessment of regional drought risk coupled with drought response capacity considering water supply systems
Drought is a complex combination of natural, physical, and social phenomena. Prolonged drought can result in significant socioeconomic damage....
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Monitoring early-season agricultural drought using temporal Sentinel-1 SAR-based combined drought index
Early-season agricultural drought is frequent over South Asian region due to delayed or deficient monsoon rainfall. These drought events often cause...
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Spatial and temporal assessment and forecasting vulnerability to meteorological drought
Meteorological drought and its adverse effects can occur anywhere with each climate conditions, topography state, and vegetation cover. It seems the...
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Development of Ridge Ensemble Standardized Drought Index (RESDI) for improving drought characterization and future assessment
Global warming upsets the environmental balance and leads to more frequent and severe climatic events. These extreme events include floods, droughts,...
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A review of widely used drought indices and the challenges of drought assessment under climate change
Under climate change, drought assessment, which can address nonstationarity in drought indicators and anthropogenic implications, is required to...
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Spatiotemporal evaluation of drought characteristics based on standard drought indices at various timescales over Uttar Pradesh, India
Prolonged and repeated drought, as seen in India and other parts of South Asia, is a symptom of climate change, which is partially the result of...
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Enhancing drought resilience: machine learning–based vulnerability assessment in Uttar Pradesh, India
Drought is a natural and complex climatic hazard. It has both natural and social connotations. The purpose of this study is to use machine learning...
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The Novelty of Extreme Natural Drought Trend Using the Statistical Approach
This study presents a method to estimate the trend of natural drought. The trend was evaluated based on the natural drought index from 1981 to 2016....
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Higher vegetation sensitivity to meteorological drought in autumn than spring across European biomes
Europe has experienced severe drought events in recent decades, posing challenges to understand vegetation responses due to diverse vegetation...
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Drought risk assessment on the eastern part of Indian peninsula—a study on Purulia district, West Bengal
This study focuses on measuring the spatial nature of drought risk which is conceived as the product of drought severity, drought vulnerability, and...
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Quantification of Drought Condition Using Drought Indices: A Review
Climate change is becoming a reason for the increased frequency of drought reported in many parts of the world. An increase in temperature results in...
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Evaluation of the sensitivity of meteorological drought in the Mediterranean region to different data record lengths
The division and evaluation of data series used in monitoring drought into different time intervals is a practical approach to detecting the spatial...
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Hydrological Drought Evaluation on Streamflow Drought Index (SDI) in Upstream and Downstream Area of Lampao Reservoir, Northeast of Thailand
Drought is a widespread natural phenomenon throughout the world. It occurs at a time when streamflow availability in the watershed shows a trend that...
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Impact of Drought Events on the Quality of Surface Water in Nenjiang Basin
This paper analyzes the impact of the four periods of drought, the first rainfall after the drought, the normal water period and the high water...
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Map** Agricultural Drought Vulnerability at a Regional Level Using GIS—A Case Study
Drought is a highly complicated yet least understood of all the other natural disasters. It is due to the lack of rain and shortfall of humidity. The...
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A multi-scalar statistical approach to develop Standardized Copula-based Drought Index (SCDI) for drought risk analysis
Drought is a natural hazard where drought indices are used for simplifying the nexus of climate data, drought planning, and proper management to get...
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Trend Analysis of Rainfall and Meteorological Drought Indices over India During 1958–2017
Rainfall plays a very vital role and its deficit causes a huge impact on the environment. Understanding the pattern of rainfall and drought trends...
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Climate-driven disturbances amplify forest drought sensitivity
Forests are a major terrestrial carbon sink, but the increasing frequency and intensity of climate-driven disturbances such as droughts, fires and...
