Drought early warning and forecasting : theory and practice /
"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 fittin...
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA :
Elsevier,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Droughts, governance, disasters, and response systems
- Drought early warning : definitions, challenges, and opportunities
- Drought early warning systems
- Tools of the trade 1 : weather and climate forecasts
- Tools of the trade 2 : land surface models
- Tools of the trade 3 : mapping exposure and vulnerability
- Theory : understanding atmospheric demand in a warming world
- Theory : indices for measuring drought severity
- Sources of drought early warning skill, staged prediction systems, and an example for Somalia
- Practice : evaluating forecast skill
- Practice : integrating observations and climate forecasts
- Practice : actionable information and decision-making networks
- Final thoughts.