Status and prospects for drought forecasting: Opportunities in artificial intelligence and hybrid physical–statistical forecasting

A AghaKouchak, B Pan… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite major improvements in weather and climate modelling and substantial increases in
remotely sensed observations, drought prediction remains a major challenge. After a review …

Comparative study of GCMs, RCMs, downscaling and hydrological models: a review toward future climate change impact estimation

N Chokkavarapu, VR Mandla - SN Applied Sciences, 2019 - Springer
Water resources are naturally influenced by weather, topography, geology and environment.
These factors cause difficulties in evaluating future water resources under changing climate …

Bayesian multi-modeling of deep neural nets for probabilistic crop yield prediction

P Abbaszadeh, K Gavahi, A Alipour, P Deb… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
An imperative aspect of agricultural planning is accurate yield prediction. Artificial
Intelligence (AI) techniques, such as Deep Learning (DL), have been recognized as effective …

Droughts, floods, and wildfires

MF Wehner, JR Arnold, T Knutson… - … science special report …, 2017 - ntrs.nasa.gov
Recent droughts and associated heat waves have reached record intensity in some regions
of the United States; however, by geographical scale and duration, the Dust Bowl era of the …

A novel statistical downscaling approach for analyzing daily precipitation and extremes under the impact of climate change: Application to an arid region

Q Zhang, YP Li, GH Huang, H Wang, YF Li, YR Liu… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Statistical downscaling of daily precipitation is important for assessing the impact of climate
change. However, some issues (eg, the underestimation of extremes) limit statistical …

Catchment response to climate and land use changes in the Upper Blue Nile sub-basins, Ethiopia

TA Woldesenbet, NA Elagib, L Ribbe… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The impacts of climate and land development on streamflow and water balance components
were analyzed in the Tana and Beles watersheds by using the Soil and Water Assessment …

Multi-criteria evaluation of CMIP5 GCMs for climate change impact analysis

A Ahmadalipour, A Rana, H Moradkhani… - Theoretical and applied …, 2017 - Springer
Climate change is expected to have severe impacts on global hydrological cycle along with
food-water-energy nexus. Currently, there are many climate models used in predicting …

Accounting for model structure, parameter and input forcing uncertainty in flood inundation modeling using Bayesian model averaging

Z Liu, V Merwade - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Reliability of flood stage and inundation extent predictions are affected by the performance
of a hydraulic model. However, uncertainties at all times exist in the model setup process …

A comparative assessment of projected meteorological and hydrological droughts: elucidating the role of temperature

A Ahmadalipour, H Moradkhani, MC Demirel - Journal of Hydrology, 2017 - Elsevier
The changing climate and the associated future increases in temperature are expected to
have impacts on drought characteristics and hydrologic cycle. This paper investigates the …

Centennial drought outlook over the CONUS using NASA‐NEX downscaled climate ensemble

A Ahmadalipour, H Moradkhani… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drought is a natural hazard developing slowly and affecting large areas which may have
severe consequences on society and economy. Due to the effects of climate change …