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 …

The long‐term surface water balance over land is described by the partitioning of
precipitation (P) into runoff and evapotranspiration (ET), and is commonly characterized by …

Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted that
droughts are projected to affect global hydrology and water quality in varying ways, resulting …

Drought forecasting using standardized metrics of rainfall is a core task in hydrology and
water resources management. Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is a rainfall-based …

Land use change is one of the dominant driving factors of watershed hydrological change.
Thus, hydrological responses to land use changes require detailed assessments to ensure …

Climate change (CC) along with Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) have a strong
influence in water availability in already fragile Mediterranean ecosystems. In this work the …

An effective planning and management to deal with potential impacts of drought requires
accurate estimation and analysis of this natural complex phenomenon. Application of new …

Abstract The Millennium Drought lasted more than a decade and is notable for causing
persistent shifts in the relationship between rainfall and runoff in many southeastern …

Accurate predictions of drought events to plan and manage the adverse effects of drought on
agriculture and the environment requires tools that precisely predict standardized drought …

Forecasting drought by means of the World Meteorological Organization-approved
Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is considered to be a fundamental task to support …