Toward impact-based monitoring of drought and its cascading hazards

A AghaKouchak, LS Huning, M Sadegh, Y Qin… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Growth in satellite observations and modelling capabilities has transformed drought
monitoring, offering near-real-time information. However, current monitoring efforts focus on …

The challenges of dynamic vulnerability and how to assess it

MC de Ruiter, AF Van Loon - IScience, 2022 - cell.com
Recent disasters have demonstrated the challenges faced by society as a result of the
increasing complexity of disaster risk. In this perspective article, we discuss the complex …

A global transition to flash droughts under climate change

X Yuan, Y Wang, P Ji, P Wu, J Sheffield, JA Otkin - Science, 2023 - science.org
Flash droughts have occurred frequently worldwide, with a rapid onset that challenges
drought monitoring and forecasting capabilities. However, there is no consensus on whether …

A decision framework for potential dam site selection using GIS, MIF and TOPSIS in Ulhas river basin, India

NL Rane, A Achari, SP Choudhary, SK Mallick… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ulhas River Basin, India has been severely impacted by climate change,
frequent rainfall, and an ineffective drainage system in recent years, resulting in flooding. To …

Anthropogenic drought dominates groundwater depletion in Iran

S Ashraf, A Nazemi, A AghaKouchak - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Using publicly-available average monthly groundwater level data in 478 sub-basins and 30
basins in Iran, we quantify country-wide groundwater depletion in Iran. Natural and …

Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries

A Montanari, H Nguyen, S Rubinetti, S Ceola… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The causes of recent hydrological droughts and their future evolution under a changing
climate are still poorly understood. Banking on a 216-year river flow time series at the Po …

Anthropogenic depletion of Iran's aquifers

R Noori, M Maghrebi, A Mirchi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Global groundwater assessments rank Iran among countries with the highest groundwater
depletion rate using coarse spatial scales that hinder detection of regional imbalances …

Urban water crises driven by elites' unsustainable consumption

E Savelli, M Mazzoleni, G Di Baldassarre, H Cloke… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, more than 80 metropolitan cities across the world have faced
severe water shortages due to droughts and unsustainable water use. Future projections are …

Evaluation of the impacts of human activities on propagation from meteorological drought to hydrological drought in the Weihe River Basin, China

T Zhang, X Su, G Zhang, H Wu, G Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationship among different types of drought is crucial for drought
mitigation and early warnings. Much attention has been recently focused on the propagation …

Application of a hybrid ARIMA-LSTM model based on the SPEI for drought forecasting

D Xu, Q Zhang, Y Ding, D Zhang - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Drought forecasting can effectively reduce the risk of drought. We proposed a hybrid model
based on deep learning methods that integrates an autoregressive integrated moving …