Global drought trends and future projections

SM Vicente-Serrano… - … of the Royal …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Drought is one of the most difficult natural hazards to quantify and is divided into categories
(meteorological, agricultural, ecological and hydrological), which makes assessing recent …

A review of recent developments on drought characterization, propagation, and influential factors

VMB Raposo, VAF Costa, AF Rodrigues - Science of the Total Environment, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Droughts have impacted human society throughout its history. However, the occurrence of
severe drought events in the last century and the concerns on the potential effects of climate …

Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal

R Libonati, JL Geirinhas, PS Silva… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The year 2020 had the most catastrophic fire season over the last two decades in the
Pantanal, which led to outstanding environmental impacts. Indeed, much of the Pantanal …

A review of remote sensing applications for water security: Quantity, quality, and extremes

I Chawla, L Karthikeyan, AK Mishra - Journal of Hydrology, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Water resources are critical to the sustainability of life on Earth. With a growing population
and climate change, it is imperative to assess the security of these resources. Over the past …

[HTML][HTML] Map** global patterns of drought risk: An empirical framework based on sub-national estimates of hazard, exposure and vulnerability

H Carrão, G Naumann, P Barbosa - Global Environmental Change, 2016‏ - Elsevier
A global map of drought risk has been elaborated at the sub-national administrative level.
The motivation for this study is the observation that little research and no concerted efforts …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of climate variability and trends in Southern Ethiopia

A Belay, T Demissie, JW Recha, C Oludhe, PM Osano… - Climate, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
This study investigated the trends and variability of seasonal and annual rainfall and
temperature data over southern Ethiopia using time series analysis for the period 1983 …

Spatial and temporal characteristics of droughts in Central Asia during 1966–2015

H Guo, A Bao, T Liu, F Ndayisaba, L Jiang… - Science of the total …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Projected drought conditions in Northwest China with CMIP6 models under combined SSPs and RCPs for 2015–2099

SY Li, LJ Miao, ZH Jiang, GJ Wang… - Advances in Climate …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Northwest China is one of the most arid regions in the world and has experienced intriguing
climate warming and humidification. Nonetheless, future climate conditions in Northwest …

Drought forecasting in eastern Australia using multivariate adaptive regression spline, least square support vector machine and M5Tree model

RC Deo, O Kisi, VP Singh - Atmospheric Research, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Drought forecasting using standardized metrics of rainfall is a core task in hydrology and
water resources management. Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is a rainfall-based …

Lagged compound occurrence of droughts and pluvials globally over the past seven decades

X He, J Sheffield - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The drought‐pluvial seesaw—defined as the phenomenon of pluvials (wet spells) following
droughts (dry spells)—magnifies the impact of individual pluvial and drought events yet has …