Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

Y Tramblay, A Koutroulis, L Samaniego… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Droughts in East Africa: Causes, impacts and resilience

GG Haile, Q Tang, S Sun, Z Huang, X Zhang, X Liu - Earth-science reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

Global land surface evapotranspiration monitoring by ETMonitor model driven by multi-source satellite earth observations

C Zheng, L Jia, G Hu - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Hydrological drought explained

AF Van Loon - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

A AghaKouchak, A Farahmand, FS Melton… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review surveys current and emerging drought monitoring approaches using satellite
remote sensing observations from climatological and ecosystem perspectives. We argue …

The role of satellite remote sensing in mitigating and adapting to global climate change

S Zhao, M Liu, M Tao, W Zhou, X Lu, Y **ong… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change has critical adverse impacts on human society and poses severe
challenges to global sustainable development. Information on essential climate variables …

Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–2022

SH Gebrechorkos, J Peng, E Dyer… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Droughts are among the most complex and devastating natural hazards globally. High-
resolution datasets of drought metrics are essential for monitoring and quantifying the …

The evaporative demand drought index. Part I: Linking drought evolution to variations in evaporative demand

MT Hobbins, A Wood, DJ McEvoy… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Many operational drought indices focus primarily on precipitation and temperature when
depicting hydroclimatic anomalies, and this perspective can be augmented by analyses and …

A generalized framework for deriving nonparametric standardized drought indicators

A Farahmand, A AghaKouchak - Advances in Water Resources, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper introduces the Standardized Drought Analysis Toolbox (SDAT) that offers a
generalized framework for deriving nonparametric univariate and multivariate standardized …