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 …

Drought is an economically important hazard for many countries, with the potential to cause large direct and indirect … projected estimates of direct drought losses, for a variety of different climate change scenarios, to assess how input … consider both the severity of individual drought events and the propagation of economic losses over time and applied to a case …

In this study, the Variable Infiltration Capacity model and Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) were combined for … drought identification on the Loess Plateau. The calibration method of climatic characteristic (K <Subscript> j </Subscript … extent or severity, most of the prominent droughts occurred in the detected driest periods. The drought severity and area …

transfer projects, is the most effective adaptation to climate change, drought and flooding, as well as food security. This …

floods were opposite. In northern China, although impacted area by drought was larger than that by flood, the flood … sensitivities were larger than drought sensitivities when flood happened. Although drought significantly affected wheat yields in … like irrigation and drought-tolerant cultivars applied in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain can adapt to climate disasters …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of climate change on the drought and flood risks of a … drought risks, weather data obtained by the statistical downscaling method were entered to produce runoff series by runoff … dam operation method. The results of the review indicated that both the drought and the flood risks of the dam would …

temperature, self-calibrated Palmer Drought Index and Standardized Precipitation Index for 1-, 3-, 6- and 12-month time scales … were used to identify spatial and temporal distribution of climatic extreme and variability as well as drought frequency … teleconnections will improve drought-forecasting capability in this region. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013 …

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 …