Drought prediction is of critical importance to early warning for drought managements. This
review provides a synthesis of drought prediction based on statistical, dynamical, and hybrid …

Owing to the rise in water demand and looming climate change, recent years have
witnessed much focus on global drought scenarios. As a natural hazard, drought is best …

In recent years droughts have been occurring frequently, and their impacts are being
aggravated by the rise in water demand and the variability in hydro-meteorological variables …

Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world.
Together with an increased demand for water resources to supply the world's growing …

Most annually resolved climate reconstructions of the Common Era are based on terrestrial
data, making it a challenge to independently assess how recent climate changes have …

Present work uses 1979–2005 monthly observational data to study the impacts of El Niño
Modoki on dry/wet conditions in the Pacific rim during boreal summer. The El Niño Modoki …

Today the world is facing a greater water crisis than ever. Droughts of lesser magnitude are
resulting in greater impact. Even in years with normal precipitation, water shortages have …

Long-term drought monitoring and its assessment are of great importance for meteorological
disaster risk management. The recurrent spells of heat waves and droughts have severely …

Using observation-driven simulations of global terrestrial hydrology and a cluster algorithm
that searches for spatially connected regions of soil moisture, the authors identified 296 …

Droughts have severe economic, environmental and social impacts. Timely determination of
the current level of drought may aid the decision making process in reducing the impacts …