The Mediterranean region is an area particularly susceptible to water scarcity and drought.
In this work, drought has been analyzed in Italy using multiple timescales of the …

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

Drought basically consists of four main components: duration, severity, intensity, and
frequency. The fact that these different components having impact on drought are related to …

Mopani District Municipality in the northeast of South Africa is largely semi-arid and
frequently affected by meteorological droughts. The recent 2015/16 event had devastating …

Drought is caused by the imbalances in the factors that make up the hydrological cycle,
especially the rainfall. Droughts triggered by climate change can occur anywhere in the …

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

Drought is one of the major barriers to the socio-economic development of a region. To
manage and reduce the impact of drought, drought vulnerability modelling is important. The …

Drought indices are used to identify and monitor drought events. The standardized
precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) is a widely used index based on accumulated …

Drought is a natural disaster that has terrible effects on society and the natural environment.
However, accurate detection and measurement of incoming drought events help …

Global climate change, especially extreme drought events, presents a complicated
challenge to humanity and Earth's system in the 21st century. As an extremely important …