Drought characterization from a multivariate perspective: A review

Z Hao, VP Singh - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
Drought is a recurring natural phenomenon that has plagued the civilization throughout its
history. Due to the complex nature and widespread impacts of drought, there is a lack of …

Geoinformation technologies in support of environmental hazards monitoring under climate change: An extensive review

A Tsatsaris, K Kalogeropoulos, N Stathopoulos… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Human activities and climate change constitute the contemporary catalyst for natural
processes and their impacts, ie, geo-environmental hazards. Globally, natural catastrophic …

DrinC: a software for drought analysis based on drought indices

D Tigkas, H Vangelis, G Tsakiris - Earth Science Informatics, 2015 - Springer
Drought is a complex phenomenon which can be characterised mainly by its severity,
duration and areal extent. Among these three dimensions, drought severity is the key factor …

Contribution of precipitation and reference evapotranspiration to drought indices under different climates

SM Vicente-Serrano, G Van der Schrier, S Beguería… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study we analyzed the sensitivity of four drought indices to precipitation (P) and
reference evapotranspiration (ETo) inputs. The four drought indices are the Palmer Drought …

Comparison of various drought indices to monitor drought status in Pakistan

S Adnan, K Ullah, L Shuanglin, S Gao, AH Khan… - Climate Dynamics, 2018 - Springer
Various drought indices are normally used to monitor drought and its risk management.
Precipitation, temperature and other hydro meteorological parameters are the essential …

Spatiotemporal characteristics of meteorological drought variability and trends (1981–2020) over South Asia and the associated large-scale circulation patterns

I Ullah, X Ma, J Yin, A Omer, BA Habtemicheal… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
The present study uses observation-based gridded air temperature and precipitation
datasets to investigate the spatiotemporal changes in meteorological drought from 1981 to …

The first high spatial resolution multi-scale daily SPI and SPEI raster dataset for drought monitoring and evaluating over China from 1979 to 2018

R Zhang, VA Bento, J Qi, F Xu, J Wu, J Qiu, J Li… - Big Earth …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Standardized Precipitation
Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), traditionally derived at a monthly scale, are widely used …

Development of bio-inspired-and wavelet-based hybrid models for reconnaissance drought index modeling

F Ahmadi, S Mehdizadeh, B Mohammadi - Water Resources Management, 2021 - Springer
The present study aimed to model reconnaissance drought index (RDI) time series at three
various time scales (ie, RDI-6, RDI-9, RDI-12). Two weather stations located at Iran, namely …

Comparison of drought indices in a semi-arid river basin of India

PS Wable, MK Jha, A Shekhar - Water resources management, 2019 - Springer
Due to the inherent complexity of drought phenomena, difference in hydro-climatic
conditions and watershed characteristics, there is a lack of a universal drought index for …

Drought and climatic change impact on streamflow in small watersheds

D Tigkas, H Vangelis, G Tsakiris - Science of the Total Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
The paper presents a comprehensive, thought simple, methodology, for forecasting the
annual hydrological drought, based on meteorological drought indications available early …