ABSTRACT The Xingu River Basin (XRB), located in the Brazilian Amazon, is of great
importance both in national and international contexts, especially regarding hydroelectric …

Currently, the decline in spruce wood prices is a serious problem for the forestry sector in the
Czech Republic. We estimate that the fall in wood prices in European markets causes losses …

Drought indices are a numerical representation of drought conditions aimed to provide
quantitative assessments of the magnitude, spatial extent, timing, and duration of drought …

The spatiotemporal diagnosis of climate variability and environmental changes in arid and
semiarid regions is essential to minimize pressures and impacts on natural ecosystems …

The Northeast region of Brazil (NRB) is the most populous semiarid area in the world and is
extremely susceptible to droughts. The severity and duration of these droughts depend on …

In this work, we used the MICE (Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations) technique to
impute missing daily data from six meteorological variables (precipitation, temperature …

More studies in estimating rainfall variations have focused on examining the change in the
series' mean/median, which does not lead to the analysis of wet and dry conditions …

Droughts are natural catastrophes that cost the health and wealth of humans due to their
harmful effects on the natural environment, ecology, hydrology, and agriculture in particular …

Monitoring rainfall in the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA), which comprises most of the largest
tropical rainforest and largest river basin on the planet, is extremely important but …

The study of rainfall trends is crucial for food security and water availability in Alagoas state,
Northeast of Brazil. In this work, monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall trends have been …