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Severe droughts reduce river navigability and isolate communities in the Brazilian Amazon
The Amazon basin is experiencing severe droughts that are expected to worsen with climate change. Riverine communities are especially vulnerable to...
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Identification of reliable locations for wind power generation through a global analysis of wind droughts
Wind droughts, or prolonged periods of low wind speeds, pose challenges for electricity systems largely reliant on wind generation. Using weather...
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The increasing risk of future simultaneous droughts over the Yangtze River basin based on CMIP6 models
Drought projection is critical for water resource planning and management, as well as disaster prevention and mitigation. As a strategic national...
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Global ecosystem responses to flash droughts are modulated by background climate and vegetation conditions
Flash droughts and their physical processes have received increasing attention in recent years due to concerns about the potential of flash droughts...
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Unprecedented droughts are expected to exacerbate urban inequalities in Southern Africa
Climate change-related drought risks are intensifying in many urban areas, making stakes particularly high in contexts of severe vulnerability. Yet,...
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Comparison of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural droughts for develo** a composite drought index over semi-arid Banas River Basin of India
This study attempts to develop a composite index by integrating meteorological, hydrological and agricultural droughts over semi-arid Banas River...
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Multi-datasets to monitor and assess meteorological and hydrological droughts in a typical basin of the Brazilian semiarid region
This study analyzed the meteorological and hydrological droughts in a typical basin of the Brazilian semiarid region from 1994 to 2016. In recent...
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Assessment of the combined vulnerability to droughts and heatwaves in Shandong Province in summer from 2000 to 2018
Droughts and heat waves exhibit synergistic effects and are among the world’s most costly disasters. To explore the spatiotemporal differences and...
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Quantification of the meteorological and hydrological droughts links over various regions of Iran using gridded datasets
Drought is a gradual phenomenon that occurs slowly and directly impacts human life and agricultural products. Due to its significant damage,...
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Anthropogenic warming has exacerbated droughts in southern Europe since the 1850s
Widespread and frequent droughts have affected most parts of Europe over recent years, but it remains unclear when this synchronous drying trend...
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Characterization and assessment of hydrological droughts using GloFAS streamflow data for the Narmada River Basin, India
Hydrological droughts severely affect the demand of water for domestic water supply, irrigation, hydropower generation, and several other purposes....
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Trivariate frequency analysis of droughts using copulas under future climate change over Vidarbha region in India
Mankind is currently facing a crucial challenge in terms of climate change which may result in severe drought in many areas across the world. The...
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Enhanced risk of concurrent regional droughts with increased ENSO variability and warming
Spatially compounding extremes pose substantial threats to globally interconnected socio-economic systems. Here we use multiple large ensemble...
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Households’ co** mechanisms with droughts and floods using finance, non-finance and the social safety net measures: evidence from Kenya
This study analysed households’ use of formal and informal finance, non-finance livelihood diversification and the social safety net measures in...
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Past megadroughts in central Europe were longer, more severe and less warm than modern droughts
Megadroughts are notable manifestations of the American Southwest, but not so much of the European climate. By using long-term hydrological and...
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A regional stocktake of maize yield vulnerability to droughts in the Horn of Africa
Climate projections in sub-Saharan Africa predict increased frequency of droughts with parallel impacts on crop yield. The Horn of Africa is among...
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Spatiotemporal analysis of droughts characteristics and drivers in the Omo-Gibe River basin, Ethiopia
BackgroundDrought is one of the leading destructive natural disasters adversely affecting natural resources and livelihoods. Thus, this study...
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Effects of droughts, sea level rise, and increase in outfall discharges on phytoplankton in a temperate estuary (Tagus Estuary, Portugal)
The effects of climate change on the estuarine environment are not fully understood. In temperate regions, droughts are expected to increase in...
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Droughts and Desertification in the Era of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Manifestations, Impacts, and Nature-Based Solutions in the Guinea High Savannah and Sudano-Sahelian Regions of Cameroon
Climate change is a major global threat triggering extreme weather/climatic events such as droughts and desertification. In Cameroon, anthropogenic...