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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Funk, Christopher C. (Autor), Shukla, Shraddhanand (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, [2020]
Temas:
Drought forecasting.
S�echeresses > Pr�evision.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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