In this study, drought events over a large area of the Northern Hemisphere, including
continental Europe, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the Mediterranean basin, were …

Climate variability can be the source of several multiple hazards and damaging phenomena,
such as flash floods, debris flows, landslides, forest fires, etc. In this study the response in …

A natural temporary imbalance of water availability, consisting of persistent lower-than-
average or higher-than-average precipitation, can cause extreme dry and wet conditions …

The aim of this research is to identify and characterize, in terms of length, intensity, and
spatial propagation, the main drought events which took place in the Po Valley (Italy) from …

Skills in reproducing monthly rainfall over Calabria (southern Italy) have been validated for
the Climate Hazards group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) satellite data …

This study highlights drought forecasting for understanding the semi-arid area in India,
where drought phenomena play vital role in the irrigation, drinking water supplies, and …

Drought is a normal and recurrent climate feature, but one of the most important climate
hazards that can produce negative effects on natural and socioeconomic systems. The …

In this article, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), at both the short-and long-time
scale, has been evaluated to analyse drought in the Sardinia region (Italy). In fact, while the …

The present article investigates drought events in New Zealand through the application of
the SPI at various timescales (3, 6, 12 and 24 months). First, a temporal analysis has been …

Using a large precipitation dataset from 692 gauge stations across China for the period of
1960–2013, this study analyzed the characteristics of wet/dry spells related to four types of …