Climate change and drought: a perspective on drought indices

S Mukherjee, A Mishra, KE Trenberth - Current climate change reports, 2018‏ - Springer
Droughts occur naturally, but climate change has generally accelerated the hydrological
processes to make them set in quicker and become more intense, with many consequences …

A review of drought indices

A Zargar, R Sadiq, B Naser, FI Khan - Environmental Reviews, 2011‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Drought is a stochastic natural hazard that is instigated by intense and persistent shortage of
precipitation. Following an initial meteorological phenomenon, subsequent impacts are …

Drought monitoring and analysis: standardised precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) and standardised precipitation index (SPI)

S Tirivarombo, D Osupile, P Eliasson - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Although rainfall is a major indicator of the availability of water, temperature is also an
important factor that can influence the availability of water as it controls the rates of …

Water scarcity in the Yellow River Basin under future climate change and human activities

A Omer, NA Elagib, M Zhuguo, F Saleem… - Science of the Total …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Under global climate change and pressure from human activities, water scarcity is becoming
a major concern in the quest for regional sustainable development in the Yellow River Basin …

Climate change impacts on meteorological, agricultural and hydrological droughts in China

G Leng, Q Tang, S Rayburg - Global and Planetary Change, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Bias corrected daily climate projections from five global circulation models (GCMs) under the
RCP8. 5 emission scenarios were fed into a calibrated Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) …

Changes in drought characteristics over China using the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index

H Chen, J Sun - Journal of Climate, 2015‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) is computed and compared
in China using reference evapotranspiration calculated using the Thornthwaite (TH) …

A multiscalar drought index sensitive to global warming: the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index

SM Vicente-Serrano, S Beguería… - Journal of …, 2010‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The authors propose a new climatic drought index: the standardized precipitation
evapotranspiration index (SPEI). The SPEI is based on precipitation and temperature data …

Drought modeling–A review

AK Mishra, VP Singh - Journal of Hydrology, 2011‏ - Elsevier
In recent years droughts have been occurring frequently, and their impacts are being
aggravated by the rise in water demand and the variability in hydro-meteorological variables …

The effects of climate change on labor and capital reallocation

C Albert, P Bustos, J Ponticelli - 2021‏ - nber.org
Climate change is expected to reduce agricultural productivity in develo** countries.
Classic international trade and geography models predict that the optimal adaptation …

Drought hazard assessment in the context of climate change for South Korea

WH Nam, MJ Hayes, MD Svoboda, T Tadesse… - Agricultural Water …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Drought has had large impacts on economies, societies and the environment, and could
become even more disruptive given the context of climate change characterized by …