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 …

Drought risk assessment using remote sensing and GIS techniques

AA Belal, HR El-Ramady, ES Mohamed… - Arabian Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Beginning with a discussion of drought definitions, this review paper attempts to provide a
review of fundamental concepts of drought, classification of droughts, drought indices, and …

Evaluation of satellite-based rainfall estimates and application to monitor meteorological drought for the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

Y Bayissa, T Tadesse, G Demisse, A Shiferaw - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Drought is a recurring phenomenon in Ethiopia that significantly impacts the socioeconomic
sector and various components of the environment. The overarching goal of this study is to …

Recent drought and precipitation tendencies in Ethiopia

E Viste, D Korecha, A Sorteberg - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2013 - Springer
In 2011, drought in the Horn of Africa again made news headlines. This study aims to
quantify the meteorological component of this and other drought episodes in Ethiopia since …

A comprehensive drought monitoring method integrating MODIS and TRMM data

L Du, Q Tian, T Yu, Q Meng, T Jancso… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Drought is a complex hazard caused by the breaking of water balance and it has always an
impact on agricultural, ecological and socio-economic spheres. Although the drought …

Prediction of meteorological drought and standardized precipitation index based on the random forest (RF), random tree (RT), and Gaussian process regression (GPR …

A Elbeltagi, CB Pande, M Kumar, AD Tolche… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Agriculture, meteorological, and hydrological drought is a natural hazard which affects
ecosystems in the central India of Maharashtra state. Due to limited historical data for …

Farm level adaptation to climate change: the case of farmer's in the Ethiopian Highlands

T Gebrehiwot, A Van Der Veen - Environmental management, 2013 - Springer
In Ethiopia, climate change and associated risks are expected to have serious
consequences for agriculture and food security. This in turn will seriously impact on the …

Comparison of the performance of six drought indices in characterizing historical drought for the upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia

Y Bayissa, S Maskey, T Tadesse, SJ Van Andel… - Geosciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
The Upper Blue Nile (UBN) basin is less-explored in terms of drought studies as compared
to other parts of Ethiopia and lacks a basin-specific drought monitoring system. This study …

[HTML][HTML] GIS-based climate variability and drought characterization in Ethiopia over three decades

KV Suryabhagavan - Weather and climate extremes, 2017 - Elsevier
The climate variability and drought frequency over potential crop growing regions of Ethiopia
during 1983− 2012 were analysed. Data from 87 weather stations across the country were …

Effects of extreme drought events on vegetation activity from the perspectives of meteorological and soil droughts in southwestern China

F Huang, L Liu, J Gao, Z Yin, Y Zhang, Y Jiang… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Under climate warming, extreme drought events (EDEs) in southwestern China have
become more frequent and severe and have had significant impacts on vegetation growth …