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Drought Early Warning and Forecasting

Author : Chris Funk
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128140119
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Drought Early Warning and Forecasting written by Chris Funk and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought risk management involves three pillars: drought early warning, drought vulnerability and risk assessment, and drought preparedness, mitigation, and response. This book collects in one place a description of all the key components of the first pillar, and describes strategies for fitting these pieces together. The best modern drought early warning systems incorporate and integrate a broad array of environmental information sources: weather station observations, satellite imagery, land surface and crop model simulations, and weather and climate model forecasts, and analyze this information in context-relevant ways that take into account exposure and vulnerability. Drought Early Warning and Forecasting: Theory and Practice assembles a comprehensive overview of these components, providing examples drawn from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network and the United States Drought Monitor. This book simultaneously addresses the physical, social, and information management aspects of drought early warning, and informs readers about the tools, techniques, and conceptual models required to effectively identify, predict, and communicate potential drought-related disasters. This book is a key text for postgraduate scientists and graduate and advanced undergraduate students in hydrology, geography, earth sciences, meteorology, climatology, and environmental sciences programs. Professionals dealing with disaster management and drought forecasting will also find this book beneficial to their work. Describes and discusses the strategies and components used in effective and integrated 21st century drought early warning systems Provides a one-stop-shop that describes in one book the observations, models, forecasts, indices, social context, and theory used in drought early warning Identifies the latest tools and approaches used to monitor and forecast drought, sources of predictive skill, and discusses the technical and theoretical details required to use these tools and approaches in a real-world setting

Drought Early Warning and Forecasting

Author : Chris Funk
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128140127
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Drought Early Warning and Forecasting written by Chris Funk and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought risk management involves three pillars: drought early warning, drought vulnerability and risk assessment, and drought preparedness, mitigation, and response. This book collects in one place a description of all the key components of the first pillar, and describes strategies for fitting these pieces together. The best modern drought early warning systems incorporate and integrate a broad array of environmental information sources: weather station observations, satellite imagery, land surface and crop model simulations, and weather and climate model forecasts, and analyze this information in context-relevant ways that take into account exposure and vulnerability. Drought Early Warning and Forecasting: Theory and Practice assembles a comprehensive overview of these components, providing examples drawn from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network and the United States Drought Monitor. This book simultaneously addresses the physical, social, and information management aspects of drought early warning, and informs readers about the tools, techniques, and conceptual models required to effectively identify, predict, and communicate potential drought-related disasters. This book is a key text for postgraduate scientists and graduate and advanced undergraduate students in hydrology, geography, earth sciences, meteorology, climatology, and environmental sciences programs. Professionals dealing with disaster management and drought forecasting will also find this book beneficial to their work. - Describes and discusses the strategies and components used in effective and integrated 21st century drought early warning systems - Provides a one-stop-shop that describes in one book the observations, models, forecasts, indices, social context, and theory used in drought early warning - Identifies the latest tools and approaches used to monitor and forecast drought, sources of predictive skill, and discusses the technical and theoretical details required to use these tools and approaches in a real-world setting

Remote Sensing of Drought

Author : Brian D. Wardlow
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439835578
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Remote Sensing of Drought written by Brian D. Wardlow and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents emerging remote sensing-based tools and techniques that can be applied to operational drought monitoring and early warning around the world. The first book to focus on remote sensing and drought monitoring, it brings together a wealth of information that has been scattered throughout the literature and across many disciplines. Featuring contributions by leading scientists, it assembles a cross-section of globally applicable techniques that are currently operational or have potential to be operational in the near future. The book explores a range of applications for monitoring four critical components of the hydrological cycle related to drought: vegetation health, evapotranspiration, soil moisture and groundwater, and precipitation. These applications use remotely sensed optical, thermal, microwave, radar, and gravity data from instruments such as AMSR-E, GOES, GRACE, MERIS, MODIS, and Landsat and implement several advanced modeling and data assimilation techniques. Examples show how to integrate this information into routine drought products. The book also examines the role of satellite remote sensing within traditional drought monitoring, as well as current challenges and future prospects. Improving drought monitoring is becoming increasingly important in addressing a wide range of societal issues, from food security and water scarcity to human health, ecosystem services, and energy production. This unique book surveys innovative remote sensing approaches to provide you with new perspectives on large-area drought monitoring and early warning.

Drought Challenges

Author : Everisto Mapedza
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128148217
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Drought Challenges written by Everisto Mapedza and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought Challenges: Livelihood Implications in Developing Countries, Volume Two, provides an understanding of the occurrence and impacts of droughts for developing countries and vulnerable sub-groups, such as women and pastoralists. It presents tools for assessing vulnerabilities, introduces individual policies to combat the effects of droughts, and highlights the importance of integrated multi-sectoral approaches and drought networks at various levels. Currently, there are few books on the market that address the growing need for knowledge on these cross-cutting issues. As drought can occur anywhere, the systemic connections between droughts and livelihoods are a key factor in development in many dryland and agriculturally-dependent nations. - Connects the biophysical, social, economic, policy and institutional aspects of droughts across multiple regions in developing world - Analyzes policy linkages between government agencies, public institutions, NGOs, the private sector and communities - Includes a discussion of gender dimensions of drought and its impacts - Presents a multi-sectoral perspective, including the human dimensions of drought in developing countries

Creating a Drought Early Warning System for the 21st Century

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Creating a Drought Early Warning System for the 21st Century written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data

Author : Molly E. Brown
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540753699
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data by : Molly E. Brown

Download or read book Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data written by Molly E. Brown and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the interdisciplinary work of USAID's Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET) and its influence on methodological and development policies in the US. This book describes FEWS NET's systems, methods and presents several illustrative case studies that will demonstrate the integration of both physical and social science disciplines in its work. The aim of this book is to bring the work of USAID's Famine Early warning System Network into the public domain.

Under the Weather

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309072786
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Under the Weather written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-06-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's technology, some hope that it will be possible to build models for predicting the emergence and spread of many infectious diseases based on climate and weather forecasts. However, separating the effects of climate from other effects presents a tremendous scientific challenge. Can we use climate and weather forecasts to predict infectious disease outbreaks? Can the field of public health advance from "surveillance and response" to "prediction and prevention?" And perhaps the most important question of all: Can we predict how global warming will affect the emergence and transmission of infectious disease agents around the world? Under the Weather evaluates our current understanding of the linkages among climate, ecosystems, and infectious disease; it then goes a step further and outlines the research needed to improve our understanding of these linkages. The book also examines the potential for using climate forecasts and ecological observations to help predict infectious disease outbreaks, identifies the necessary components for an epidemic early warning system, and reviews lessons learned from the use of climate forecasts in other realms of human activity.

Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change

Author : Ashbindu Singh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401785988
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change by : Ashbindu Singh

Download or read book Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change written by Ashbindu Singh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly "the new normal" and are expected to increase in the 21st century as a result of climate change. Extreme weather events have devastating impacts on human lives and national economies. This book examines ways to protect people from hazards using early warning systems, and includes contributions from experts from four different continents representing 14 different universities, 8 government agencies and two UN agencies. Chapters detail critical components of early warning systems, ways to identify vulnerable communities, predict hazards and deliver information. Unique satellite images illustrate the transnational impact of disasters, while case studies provide detailed examples of warning systems. With contributors from the fields of economics, ethics, meteorology, geography and biology, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in disaster risk reduction or climate change.

Practical guidelines for Early Warning – Early Action plans on agricultural drought

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251335486
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Practical guidelines for Early Warning – Early Action plans on agricultural drought written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of drought in agriculture is one of the most complex natural hazards to predict and mitigate. It carries a constant risk for most smallholder farmers around the world. According to studies conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 83 percent of all damages and losses caused globally by drought between 2006 and 2016 have been absorbed by agriculture, putting a good part of the world population at risk of food insecurity. The guide aims to guide governments and other relevant actors in the development of early warning - early actions on agricultural drought plans that must be implemented before a drought event has significant impacts and causes damages and losses that could eventually become a disaster. The manual complements other instruments used at global and local levels to develop EWEA on agricultural and response plans related to drought.

Drought Early Warning Systems in the Context of Drought Preparedness and Mitigation

Author : Donald A. Wilhite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Drought Early Warning Systems in the Context of Drought Preparedness and Mitigation by : Donald A. Wilhite

Download or read book Drought Early Warning Systems in the Context of Drought Preparedness and Mitigation written by Donald A. Wilhite and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drought Early Warning System

Author : Muni Rathnam Pantula
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1945497432
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Drought Early Warning System written by Muni Rathnam Pantula and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book encompasses the characterisation of meteorological drought by the newly invented index called “SPI – Standardised Precipitation index” approved by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in June 2011. It is a simple index with precipitation as the only parameter and can be computed for different scales (1-3-6-12-24 months) and compared across regions with different climatic zones. The author has depicted graphs with regard to trends, onset, end, magnitude with dates of occurrence of droughts over a period of 102 years with regard to rainfall and temperature with the aid of SPI and SPEI, for Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh, India. To characterise the agricultural drought, climatological water balance was carried for a period of 30 years for the data. In this book a composite index called “Indian drought monitor” with ten indicators and indices has been developed for releasing drought information weekly considering and incorporating review from a group of climatologists, extension agents and others across the nation. This will lead the country economically forward.

Drought: Research and Science-Policy Interfacing

Author : Joaquin Andreu
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315687224
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)

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Book Synopsis Drought: Research and Science-Policy Interfacing by : Joaquin Andreu

Download or read book Drought: Research and Science-Policy Interfacing written by Joaquin Andreu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Droughts occur in arid and semi-arid areas of the world, but also in humid areas, and can develop over short periods (flash drought) or longer periods (seasons/decades). Even though progress has been made, it remains difficult to adequately characterize, monitor, forecast and manage droughts, due to their multi-faceted nature.Usually, drought does

Hydrological Drought

Author : Lena M. Tallaksen
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780444516886
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (168 download)

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Book Synopsis Hydrological Drought by : Lena M. Tallaksen

Download or read book Hydrological Drought written by Lena M. Tallaksen and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of the examples are taken from regions where the rivers run most of the year.

Drought

Author : Gabrijel Ondrasek
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 178984780X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Drought written by Gabrijel Ondrasek and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought (hydrological, meteorological, and/or agronomical) disturbs water balance in certain domains and limits green/blue water resources for our basic needs, including food and energy production. This book presents the most recent insights related to drought types, their detection, and their effects on food, energy, and municipal water supplies. It also examines some novel approaches to drought management.

Early Warning Systems for Drought Preparedness and Drought Management

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Early Warning Systems for Drought Preparedness and Drought Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought early warning systems in the context of drought preparedness and mitigation. Role of early warning systems in decision-making processes. Drought science and drought policty in Australia: a risk management perspective. Recommendations and drought monitoring by the US national drought policy commission. Role of drought early warning systems in South Africa's evolving drought policy. Drought early warning systems in West Asia and North Africa. Contribution of remote sensing to drought early warning. Drought quantification and preparedness in Brazil - the example of São Paulo State. Drough early warning and impact assessment in China. Role of drought early warning systems. Regional drought monitoring centres - the case of Eastern and Southern Africa. Meteorology early warning systems (EWS) for drought preparedness and drought management in Nigeria. Drought tendencies in Mainland Portugal. Drought monitoring in Hungary.

Famine Early Warning Systems

Author : Peter Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134070861
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Famine Early Warning Systems written by Peter Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to see famines coming, to be prepared and to save possibly hundreds of thousands of lives? Or is this the wrong question? A famine is not a single natural catastrophe: it has different stages. Many societies have sophisticated strategies for coping – but these are becoming dramatically limited. Famine Early Warning System is about the people who are caught up in the process of famine. Peter Walker looks at how they perceive their predicament and what they do to avert mass starvation: and at what genuinely useful help can be offered in order to prevent irreversible disaster. Originally published in 1989

Coping with Drought Risk in Agriculture and Water Supply Systems

Author : Ana Iglesias
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402090455
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Coping with Drought Risk in Agriculture and Water Supply Systems by : Ana Iglesias

Download or read book Coping with Drought Risk in Agriculture and Water Supply Systems written by Ana Iglesias and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades drought episodes have resulted in severe social problems in Mediterranean countries, receiving broad attention from the international scientific and policy communities. The experiences in the development and implementation of drought management plans highlight the success and challenges of coping with drought for societies with different vulnerabilities and emphasize risk-based drought management as a critical approach to mitigate the impacts associated to drought-induced water shortages. Based on these experiences and the current methods for evaluating risk, the book synthesises guidelines for drought management that link science and policy and that can be applied to other regions. The book comprises a collection of papers divided into four sections that appeal to a broad audience. First, the social and hydrological context of Mediterranean countries is presented, discussing the interactions that have resulted in the complex institutional framework, and highlighting the importance of stakeholder involvement and awareness building for successful drought management. This section emphasises the role of organizations, institutions, and civil stakeholders involved in drought preparedness and mitigation and/or on water management for designing effective risk based strategies that mitigate the effects of drought in agriculture and water supply systems. Second, the book presents an academic approach to risk evaluation, including characterization of drought episodes, development of indicators of risk in hydrological and agricultural systems, and analysis of the role of economic instruments and groundwater for risk mitigation. This section finalises with the description of an integrated method for evaluating social vulnerability based on indicators that include the capacity to anticipate, cope, and respond to drought. The third section includes a collection of case studies that include the description of effective measures taken in the past. These case studies provide the context for developing demand driven guidelines that may be applied to other regions. The authors of these chapters can be viewed as stakeholders in drought management, since they represent a broad range of sectors and institutions from Mediterranean European and North African countries. The topics addressed have implications for the international policy community interested in disaster mitigation, agricultural policy, and development. Finally a synthesis of the management actions is presented in four chapters. Monitoring and preparedness planning is the essential first step for moving from disaster to risk management in response to drought. The management actions related to agriculture and water supply systems are presented in two different chapters but with a common conceptual framework based on the use of drought indicators for evaluating the levels of drought risk (pre-alert, alert, and emergency), that allow establishing linkages between science and policy. The final chapter discuses the lessons learned and application to other regions.