Hydro-climatic extremes, such as droughts and floods, have most likely increased due to
climatic change and could lead to severe impacts on socio-economic, structural and …

Drought in human-dominated environments cannot be seen as a unidirectional hazard as its
characteristics are derived and modified by both natural climate variability and human …

Drought is amongst the most precarious phenomena that cause serious repercussions,
especially over the agriculture-dominated regions. A detailed assessment of droughts is …

Soil moisture is considered to be a key variable to assess crop and drought conditions.
However, readily available soil moisture datasets developed for monitoring agricultural …

The Nile Basin has long been the subject of extensive research, reflecting its importance,
which spans from its historical role in the development of ancient civilizations to its current …

Of particular importance in a world of increasing water scarcity is the temporal and spatial
relationship between a shortage in rainfall—meteorological drought—and a shortage in …

Daily time series from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Africa Rainfall Climatology
version 2.0 (ARC2), Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) …

Drought is a slow-onset phenomenon driven by the lack of precipitation, affecting the
performance of plants and functionality of terrestrial ecosystems. In addition to the length …

Characterization of droughts using satellite-based data and indices in a steep, highly
dynamic tropical catchment, like Vu Gia Thu Bon, which is the most important basin in …

Due to a wide range of socio-economic losses caused by drought over the past decades,
having a reliable insight of drought properties plays a key role in monitoring and forecasting …