Drought indicators are proliferating, but with little consideration of which are most
meaningful for describing drought impacts. A number of recent reviews compare different …

Abstract The Erhai Lake Basin is an area with the active economic and social development
of agriculture and tourism, facing increasingly prominent environmental problems with rapid …

Drought prediction is an important subject, particularly in drought-hydrology, and has a key
role in risk management, drought readiness and alleviation. Hydrological time series data …

The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), a well-reviewed meteorological drought index
recommended by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and its more recent …

Owing to its severe effect on productivity of rain-fed crops and indirect effect on employment
as well as per capita income, agricultural drought has become a prime concern worldwide …

This paper introduces the Standardized Drought Analysis Toolbox (SDAT) that offers a
generalized framework for deriving nonparametric univariate and multivariate standardized …

The drought index, which mainly focuses on the moisture supply side of the atmosphere,
which has been mainly used in the field of drought monitoring, has limitations that cannot …

West African rainfall is an important part of the global climate system that influences the
Atlantic thermohaline circulation, hurricane activities, and dust transport. The water cycle is …

Abstract Heavy reliance of East Africa (EA) on rain-fed agriculture makes it vulnerable to
drought-induced famine. Yet, most research on EA drought focuses on meteorological …

This study evaluates future changes to drought characteristics in the Lower Mekong River
Basin using climate model projections. The Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), covering Thailand …