Drought as an exigent natural phenomenon, with high frequency in arid and semi-arid
regions, leads to enormous damage to agriculture, economy, and environment. In this study …

Confronting drought and reducing its impacts requires modeling and forecasting of this
phenomenon. In this research, the ability of different time series models (the ARIMA models …

Drought prediction is very important in the planning and management of water resources.
Karkheh River basin is one of the considerable water resources fields in Iran and it is …

Investigation of drought event has a great importance in the natural resources management
and planning water resources management. One strategy to manage drought is to predict …

Demand for water is on the rise everywhere in the world, particularly in arid and semiarid
countries including Iran. Arid and semiarid regions suffer from droughts. The goal of this …

The study highlights the potential characteristics of droughts under future climate change
scenarios. For this purpose, the changes in Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration …

In recent years, greenhouse gas emissions have caused extensive changes in the global
climate. Climate change leads to extreme events, such as droughts. The present study …

Drought has significantly affected environmental and socio‐economic conditions in Iran. In
this study three drought indices were used for monitoring drought intensity and duration in …

In this research, the precipitation data of 16 synoptic stations from 1980 to 2014 in the south
of Iran were used to evaluate the changes of the spatial and temporal pattern of drought …

The aim of this paper is to investigate characteristics of meteorological and agricultural
droughts and their trends in Iran, as well as several subregions with different climate …