Drought is a complex natural hazard that impacts ecosystems and society in many ways.
Many of these impacts are associated with hydrological drought (drought in rivers, lakes …

Impacts of a drought are generally dependent on the severity of the hydrological drought
event, which can be expressed by streamflow drought duration or deficit volume. For …

The authors describe the construction of a comprehensive set of high-resolution grids of
monthly climate at spatial resolutions of 10 minutes for Europe and 0.5 degrees for the …

In this study, the authors investigated an approach to calculate the standardized streamflow
index (SSI), which allows accurate spatial and temporal comparison of the hydrological …

Freshwater resources are of high societal relevance, and understanding their past variability
is vital to water management in the context of ongoing climate change. This study introduces …

Three consecutive dry summers in western Europe (2018–2019–2020) had widespread
negative impacts on society and ecosystems, and started societal debate on (changing) …

Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world.
Together with an increased demand for water resources to supply the world's growing …

The influence of climate variation on the availability of water resources was analyzed in the
headwaters of the Tagus River basin using two drought indices, the standardized …

Drought is a natural and worldwide phenomenon that occurs when water availability is
significantly below normal levels during a significant period of time and cannot meet …

In this chapter, you will find an overview of the most used hydrological drought
characteristics and their derivation. This includes single low flow indices, such as percentiles …