Assessing Hydrological Drought in a Climate Change: Methods and Measures
This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
We are also glad to welcome selected papers on related topics from these two conferences:
WRE 2021, http://www.wreconf.org/Sessions and ITISE2021 , https://itise.ugr.es/issues.php.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water is an essential element for human life, highly impacting food security. Water scarcity is intensified by drought episodes, which appear to be more frequent due to climate change. Drought is a natural hazard that affects not only the anthropic activity, but ecosystems as well, some of its effects being associated with drought in rivers, lakes, groundwater (the so-called hydrological drought). In this context, evaluation and forecasting the drought episodes and mitigating its effects are topics of interest, not only for researcher, but for decision factors as well.
The main topics of this Special Issue are:
- Drought indices
- Risk and uncertainty in detecting drought events
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis of drought events
- Hazards and risks in drought assesment
- Impact of climate change on the frequency of drought events
- New methods for estimating and forecasting the frequency and intensity of drought episodes.
Prof. Dr. Alina Barbulescu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- drought indicators
- extremes
- drought estimating
- drought early warning
- drought risk mitigation
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Published Papers
Water - ISSN 2073-4441