This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need
for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be included in drought …

East Africa (EA) has been the primary focus for various drought studies in recent years.
However, a comprehensive analysis of droughts, including their evolution, complexity, social …

Robust evidence exists that certain extreme weather and climate events, especially daily
temperature and precipitation extremes, have changed in regard to intensity and frequency …

To characterize future drought events over a drought prone area like South Asia is
paramount for drought risk mitigation. In this paper, a five-model ensemble mean from …

Most research on hydrological risks focuses either on flood risk or drought risk, whilst floods
and droughts are two extremes of the same hydrological cycle. To better design disaster risk …

Classifying surface cover types and analyzing changes are among the most common
applications of remote sensing. One of the most basic classification tasks is to distinguish …

The “Millennium Drought”(2001–2009) can be described as the worst drought on record for
southeast Australia. Adaptation to future severe droughts requires insight into the drivers of …

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 …

In drought-prone regions like Central Asia, drought monitoring studies are paramount to
provide valuable information for drought risk mitigation. In this paper, the spatiotemporal …

The topics assessed in this chapter were last assessed by the IPCC in 2007, principally in
WGII AR4 Chapters 3 (Kundzewicz et al., 2007) and 4 (Fischlin et al., 2007), but also in WGII …