Predictions of floods, droughts, and fast drought‐flood transitions are required at different
time scales to develop management strategies targeted at minimizing negative societal and …

Drought stress is a serious limiting factor to rice production, which results in huge economic
losses. It is becoming a more serious issue with respect to the global climate change …

Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

Satellite based remote sensing offers one of the few approaches able to monitor the spatial
and temporal development of regional to continental scale droughts. A unique element of …

Drought-related disasters are among the natural disasters that are able to cause large
economic and social losses. In recent years, droughts have affected different regions of …

Water resources are critical to the sustainability of life on Earth. With a growing population
and climate change, it is imperative to assess the security of these resources. Over the past …

Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Accurate prediction of any type of natural hazard is a challenging task. Of all the various
hazards, drought prediction is challenging as it lacks a universal definition and is getting …

Hydroclimatic extremes such as intense rainfall, floods, droughts, heatwaves, and wind or
storms have devastating effects each year. One of the key challenges for society is …

Droughts are significant drivers of land degradation, which in turn has adverse effects on
resource-dependent rural populations and can potentially lead to livelihood losses and …