drought variability at the local scale. We selected three medium-sized catchments on the Catalan littoral: Fluvià, Tordera and … Siurana. We employed both instrumental and simulated temperature and rainfall data to calculate two multi-scalar drought … calculated 24-month SPI and SPEI values for the instrumental and simulated periods, and no changes were found in drought …

found drought was the most common disaster with a frequency of 49 %, followed by chilling injures (19.46 %). The frequency … northeastern China, drought in northern and western China, and rainstorms in southwestern China. Our study highlighted that the …

water supply during prolonged and severe droughts, assessing drought risk becomes one of the key tasks of water …-resources planning and management in Taiwan. Well-prepared drought mitigation measures require assimilation of physical environment of … droughts and human socioeconomic factors. An index-based approach is presented in this study to evaluate drought risk at …

Drought has become a recurrent phenomenon in Turkey in the last few decades. Significant drought conditions were …) method was used to detail geographical variations in the drought vulnerability based on frequency and severity of drought … varying drought categories to determine least amount of rainfall required to avoid from drought initiation. The study found …

between record drought and unprecedented flooding. Adjacent regions concurrently experienced droughts and floods, and … individual areas transitioned rapidly from pluvial to drought conditions and vice versa. Such events had major impacts; for … frequency of heavy rainfall events was critical for determining whether a region experienced drought or pluvial conditions. This …

resultant extreme drought events have become a great challenge to crop production and food price stability. This study aimed to … wheat varieties (“Yongliang #4” and “Wenmai #6”) to agricultural drought using Environmental Policy Integrated Climate model … (EPIC). Drought hazard index was set up based on output variables of the EPIC water stress (WS), including the magnitude and …

Recurrent drought events in the Palamu district of Jharkhand state and the magnitude of drought losses primarily toward … agricultural production in this dominantly monocropped region indicate the continuing susceptibility of the society to drought … drought hazard in Palamu district. It was hypothesized that the key climatic, biophysical and social factors that define …

The accurate assessment of drought and its monitoring is highly depending on the selection of appropriate indices …. Despite the availability of countless drought indices, due to variability in environmental properties, a single universally … drought index has not been presented yet. In this study, a new approach for developing comprehensive agricultural drought …

From early November 2008 to February 2009, lack of rainfall led to severe drought in northern China. More than 9 … hit by drought. Supported by Chinese HJ-1 satellite images together with NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging … Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, dynamic monitoring of the drought was conducted. HJ-1 CCD data with 30-m resolution were used to …

Drought is accounted as one of the most natural hazards. Studying on drought is important for designing and managing of …-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) techniques for meteorological drought forecasting in southeastern part of East Azerbaijan province … to predict meteorological drought over the test period extending from 1992 to 2011. The performances of the different …