It is important to comprehend the evolution of drought characteristics and the relationships between different kinds of droughts for effective drought mitigation and early warnings. The study area was the Pearl River Basin, where spatiotemporal chang...
Drought, as one of the hazards exacerbated by climate change, has attracted the attention of many scientists. Many drought studies have used different drought event definitions (DEDs). However, little is known about the effects of these definitions o...
Understanding the characteristics of flash drought events and further predicting the onset of such events on subseasonal timescales is of critical importance for impact assessment, disaster mitigation, and loss prevention. In this study, we employ a...
Awareness of the potential threat posed by drought necessitates the implementation of appropriate procedures to enable effective and systematic actions aimed at mitigating, or at least partially limiting, the impacts of drought events. This paper see...
Regional droughts are increasing in frequency and climate change projections indicate an exacerbation in the occurrence of regional droughts in the future. Droughts are complex hydrometeorological events, and the complexity of cause-and-effect relati...
This study investigated the response of watermelon seedlings to drought stress by assessing the growth, physiological, and biochemical indices using a pot-based continuous drought method. Drought stress indices, phenotypic plasticity indices, and mem...
The process of propagation from meteorological to hydrological drought is studied using the Vistula basin in Poland (193,960 km2) as a case study. The study aims to set a background for the analysis of processes influencing drought propagation in the...
Climate change has increased the risk of snow drought, which is associated with a deficit in snowfall and snowpack. The objectives of this research are to improve drought identification in a warming climate by developing a new snow-based hydroclimati...
Among natural disasters, droughts can affect a large area for a prolonged period of time. If a drought happens, an appropriate response requires a lot of time and manpower from beginning to end, and continuous management is necessary for further prev...
Droughts are natural disasters with a significant impact on the economy and social life. Prolonged droughts can cause even more damage than floods. The novelty of this work lies in the definition of a synthetic drought hydrograph (SDH) which can be d...
Flash droughts, a type of extreme event characterized by the sudden onset and rapid intensification of drought conditions with severe impacts on ecosystems, have become more frequent in recent years due to global warming. The drought index is an effe...
Drought assessment in any region primarily hinges on precipitation deficiency, which is subsequently propagated to various components and sectors, leading to different drought types. In countries such as India, an intricate relationship between vario...
Drought is a major limiting factor of crop yields. In response to drought, plants reprogram their gene expression, which ultimately regulates a multitude of biochemical and physiological processes. The timing of this reprogramming and the nature of t...
In the context of climate warming, flash drought has become increasingly frequent, posing significant threats to agriculture, ecosystems, and the environment. Xinjiang, located in an arid and semi-arid region, necessitates a thorough investigation in...
This study aims to assess the spatiotemporal characteristics of agricultural droughts in Bangladesh during 1981–2015 using the Effective Drought Index (EDI). Monthly precipitation data for 36 years (1980–2015) obtained from 27 metrologica...
Many existing satellite evapotranspiration (ET)-based drought indices have characterized regional drought condition successfully, but the relatively short time span of ET products limits their use in long-term climatological drought assessment. In th...
Gaining a comprehensive understanding of the characteristics and propagation of precipitation-based meteorological drought to terrestrial water storage (TWS)-derived hydrological drought is of the utmost importance. This study aims to disentangle the...
Drought is a natural disaster with severe global agricultural and economic impacts. Accurate drought indices are needed for improved assessment and monitoring; however, most existing drought indices poorly represent agricultural drought due to comple...
Developing an agricultural drought monitoring index through integrating multiple input variables into a single index is vital to facilitate the decision-making process. This study aims to develop an agricultural drought index (agCDI) to monitor and c...
Drought stress is a crucial factor limiting plant survival and growth, especially during the seedling establishment stage. A deep understanding of different plants’ responses to drought stress and their drought resistance is of great significan...
South Asian countries have been experiencing frequent drought incidents recently, and due to this reason, many scientific studies have been carried out to explore drought in South Asia. In this context, we review scientific studies related to drought...
Drought is a natural phenomenon caused by the variability of climate. This study was conducted in the Songhua River Basin of China. The drought events were estimated by using the Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI) and Standardized Precipitation Index...
Droughts affect recreation and tourism, grazing, forests, and timber, and can have important indirect effects for the ecosystems and species that rely on water. Despite its importance, the effect of drought in the land management sector is less under...
This study was conducted to investigate the response of maize hybrids to drought stress and to select the most drought-tolerant cultivar compared to other hybrids. The experiment was performed on six maize hybrids in a randomized complete block desig...
The Nile River Basin (NRB) has experienced a notable rise in drought episodes in recent decades. The propagation of meteorological, agricultural, and groundwater drought dynamics in the NRB was investigated in this study. The following drought indice...
As extreme climate events become more common with global warming, groundwater is increasingly vital for combating long-term drought and ensuring socio-economic and ecological stability. Currently, the mechanism of meteorological drought propagation t...
Analysis of the temporal relationship between meteorological drought and hydrological drought is crucial in monitoring water resource availability. This study examined the linear and lagged relationships of the spread of meteorological drought to hyd...
Drought is one of the most complex climate-related phenomena and is expected to progressively affect our lives by causing very serious environmental and socioeconomic damage by the end of the 21st century. In this study, we have extracted a dataset o...
The failure of traditional drought indices to capture the dynamic supply–demand imbalance in socio-hydrological systems hinders proactive water management and necessitates novel assessment frameworks. The reservoir drought warning water level,...
Droughts caused by meteorological factors such as a long-term lack of precipitation can propagate into several types of drought through the hydrological cycle. Among them, a phenomenon in which drought has a significant impact on the ecosystem can be...
Drought is a complex and poorly understood natural hazard in complex terrain and plains lie in foothills of Hindukush-Himalaya-Karakoram region of Central and South Asia. Few research studied climate change scenarios in the transboundary Chitral Kabu...
Understanding the propagation dynamics from meteorological to hydrological droughts, particularly in regions heavily influenced by human activities, is essential for the effective monitoring and prevention of hydrological drought risks. This study fo...
Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, is an important regional water resource and a landmark ecosystem. In recent years, it has experienced a period of prolonged drought. Using appropriate drought indices to describe the drought characte...
The Three River Headwaters Region (TRHR) has great uncertainty on drought conditions under climate change. The aim of this study is to compare the drought conditions detected by multiple drought indices across the TRHR. We applied four single drought...
Drought is one of the most devastating natural disasters, especially in China. In drought assessment, the PDI has high robustness, is easier to obtain than indices such as SPEI and PDSI, and is more advantageous in regions with sparse stations. The p...
Recently, the signs of extreme droughts, which were thought of as exceptional and unlikely, are being detected worldwide. It is necessary to prepare countermeasures against extreme droughts; however, current definitions of extreme drought are just us...
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production is severely threatened by an increase in the frequency of drought events. It is crucial to determine stable and effective morphological, physiological, and associated oxidative stress indicators, to evaluate th...
Drought is one of the challenges in Ethiopia that affects the agricultural production. Ecosystems can mitigate the effects of climate-related hazards including drought. For this reason, nature-based solutions (NbS) are becoming more prominent to mana...
Agricultural regions in humid tropical climates are often assumed to be water secure due to high annual rainfall, yet periodic drought remains a major constraint on production. This study demonstrates the application of the Normalized Difference Drou...
Southern China, despite its humid climate, has increasingly faced severe hydrological droughts (HDs) in recent decades, highlighting the complexity of drought propagation. Most existing studies primarily examined the relationship between drought prop...
Drought consequences depend on its type and class and on the preparedness and resistance of communities, which, in turn, depends on the knowledge and capacity to manage this climate disturbance. Therefore, this study aims to assess the drought regime...
The spatiotemporal continuity characteristics of drought are the basis for analyzing its spatial migration and evolution, which is significant for mitigation and early warning of drought. The aim of this paper is to identify meteorological and vegeta...
Drylands are expected to be affected by greater global drought variability in the future; consequently, how dryland ecosystems respond to drought events needs urgent attention. In this study, the Normalized Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Standardized Pr...
The extent of water deficit and drought loss mitigation, through human activities such as defense, mitigation, and resistance to drought risk, is revealed by its effects on agriculture. To analyze the distribution regularities of the effects of droug...
Understanding the spatiotemporal characteristics of drought and its impacts on vegetation is a timely prerequisite to ensuring agricultural, environmental, and socioeconomic sustainability in Sri Lanka. We investigated the drought characteristics (du...
Inadequate water supply during droughts, leading to socio-economic drought, has become a global issue. In this context, the drought resistance and disaster mitigation capabilities of reservoirs play a crucial role during drought events. Taking the do...
Drought represents one of the most critical environmental hazards in arid and semi-arid regions, exerting profound impacts on ecological security and sustainable development. Nevertheless, many existing drought indices exhibit delayed responses to pr...
The capability of a plant to protect itself from stress-related damages is termed “adaptability” and the phenomenon of showing better performance in subsequent stress is termed “stress memory”. While drought is one of the most...
The objective of this study was to establish drought classification maps to simulate and calculate the lack of discharge in the Ba River basin in Vietnam. The maps were established using three meteorological drought indices (the Standardized Precipit...
Drought is a complex natural hazard that affects various regions of the world, causing significant economic and environmental losses. Accurate and timely monitoring and forecasting of drought conditions are essential for mitigating their impacts and...
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