The Earth is a complex dynamic and networked system. For the past few decades, a large
number of extreme weather and climate events in Europe and worldwide have occurred …

This study explores the use of the Soil Moisture Agricultural Drought Index (SMADI) as a
global estimator of agricultural drought. Previous research presented SMADI as a novel …

Drought is one of the extreme climatic events that has a severe impact on crop production
and food supply. Our main goal is to test the suitability of remote sensing-based indices to …

Among natural hazards, droughts are known to be very complex and disastrous owing to
their creeping nature and widespread impacts. Specifically, the occurrence of agricultural …

Drought is a global phenomenon that silently spreads and creates an insidious hazard by
destabilizing the hydrological cycle over a large region. Due to increased frequency …

In the past years there have been many attempts to produce and improve global soil-
moisture datasets and drought indices. However, comparing and validating these various …

Agricultural drought threatens food security. Numerous remote-sensing drought indices
have been developed, but their different principles, assumptions and physical quantities …

The interpretation of drought signals has proven to be difficult because of a general lack of
ground-based “truth” metrics available at continental scales; therefore, forecasters must rely …

Droughts are a common occurrence in various climates and are primarily caused by a
prolonged decrease in rainfall. Several factors contribute to droughts, including temperature …

An increasing number of regions and countries are confronted with droughts as well as an
increase in water demand. Inevitably, this leads to an increasing pressure on the available …