Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

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 …

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 …

Drought is a complex natural hazard that impacts ecosystems and society in many ways.
Many of these impacts are associated with hydrological drought (drought in rivers, lakes …

This review surveys current and emerging drought monitoring approaches using satellite
remote sensing observations from climatological and ecosystem perspectives. We argue …

Many operational drought indices focus primarily on precipitation and temperature when
depicting hydroclimatic anomalies, and this perspective can be augmented by analyses and …

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

We present a quantitative approach for measuring hydrological drought occurrence and
severity based on terrestrial water storage observations from NASA's Gravity Recovery and …

Evapotranspiration (ET) is an essential ecohydrological process linking the land surface
energy, water and carbon cycles, and plays a critical role in the earth system. ET remains …

A Drought Monitoring and Forecasting System for Sub-Sahara African Water Resources and
Food Security in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 95 Issue 6 (2014) …