Effectiveness of drought indices in the assessment of different types of droughts, managing and mitigating their effects

JM Ndayiragije, F Li - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
Droughts are the most destructive catastrophes in the world. The persistence of drought is
considered to cause many challenges for both humans and animals and ruins the …

A review of freely accessible global datasets for the study of floods, droughts and their interactions with human societies

S Lindersson, L Brandimarte, J Mård… - Wiley …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of planetary‐scale geospatial datasets that can support the study of water‐
related disasters in the Anthropocene is rapidly growing. We review 124 global and free …

Precipitation projection using a CMIP5 GCM ensemble model: a regional investigation of Syria

R Homsi, MS Shiru, S Shahid, T Ismail… - Engineering …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The possible changes in precipitation of Syrian due to climate change are projected in this
study. The symmetrical uncertainty (SU) and multi-criteria decision-analysis (MCDA) …

Prediction of meteorological drought by using hybrid support vector regression optimized with HHO versus PSO algorithms

A Malik, Y Tikhamarine, SS Sammen, SI Abba… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Drought is considered one of the costliest natural disasters that result in water scarcity and
crop damage almost every year. Drought monitoring and forecasting are essential for the …

Seasonal drought pattern changes due to climate variability: Case study in Afghanistan

I Qutbudin, MS Shiru, A Sharafati, K Ahmed… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
We assessed the changes in meteorological drought severity and drought return periods
during cropping seasons in Afghanistan for the period of 1901 to 2010. The droughts in the …

Spatiotemporal trends and attribution of drought across China from 1901–2100

Y Ding, S Peng - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Investigating long-term drought trends is of great importance in coping with the adverse
effects of global warming. However, little attention has been focused on studying the …

Projection of meteorological droughts in Nigeria during growing seasons under climate change scenarios

MS Shiru, S Shahid, A Dewan, ES Chung, N Alias… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Like many other African countries, incidence of drought is increasing in Nigeria. In this work,
spatiotemporal changes in droughts under different representative concentration pathway …

Changes in reference evapotranspiration and its driving factors in peninsular Malaysia

SH Pour, AK Abd Wahab, S Shahid, ZB Ismail - Atmospheric Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Trends in reference evapotranspiration (ETo) have been found highly diverse in different
regions of the globe due to the contradictory changes in the meteorological variables that …

Evaluating severity–area–frequency (SAF) of seasonal droughts in Bangladesh under climate change scenarios

M Alamgir, N Khan, S Shahid, ZM Yaseen… - … research and risk …, 2020 - Springer
Drought is considered to be one of the most devastating natural hazards, causing
widespread environmental and social damage in many parts of the world. Using …

Assessing spatiotemporal characteristics of drought and its effects on climate-induced yield of maize in Northeast China

Z Zhou, H Shi, Q Fu, T Li, TY Gan, S Liu - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
It is important to investigate the potential impacts of global climate change on crop yield
especially there have been limited relevant studies conducted in the cold regions such as …