This study examines the spatial evolution of drought severity within the contiguous United States during the first six months of average Great Plains-centered drought events. It identifies Great Plains-centered drought events from 1895-1989 based on the drought history of the North Central, South Dakota and Low Rolling Plains, Texas climatic divisions. Time series of warmand cold-season average...

in many arid and semi-arid regions, groundwater resources exploitation is inevitable to meet water demands. this paper aims to study the response of phreatic and confined aquifers in a multilayer groundwater system to climate variability. to achieve this aim, gorgan plain multilayer aquifer has been investigated using different meteorological and hydrological drought indices (di, pni, spi and g...

Drought as a natural but temporary imbalance of water availability is the interaction between natural environment and human life resulting in diminished water resources availability and reduced carrying capacity of the ecosystems. Drought indices are essential elements for an efficient drought monitoring system. These indices make the transforming information of climatic anomalies easier and al...

drought is among the natural disasters that causes heavy damages to water resources and makes managers face serious challenges. drought monitoring is one of the important measures to manage droughts. different indices and methods employing varied indicators, have been developed in this regard. in this paper it is aimed to compare two well known meteorological indices of spi and edi with a hydro...

drought is a major problematic phenomenon mostly for semi-arid areas of iran. during drought periods, reduction in vegetation levels causes such problems as soil erosion, surface runoff, flood risk, etc. therefore, the assessment of drought effects on plant covers is the most important issue. this research was conducted in 2015 using the extracted vegetation indices from moderate resolution ima...

drought as a natural but temporary imbalance of water availability is the interaction between natural environment and human life resulting in diminished water resources availability and reduced carrying capacity of the ecosystems. drought indices are essential elements for an efficient drought monitoring system. these indices make the transforming information of climatic anomalies easier and al...

abstract this research evaluates climate change effects on drought severity in the region of gharesou, iran. the standardized precipitation index (spi) has been used for estimation of drought severity. a geographical information system is applied for calculating the mean areal precipitation time series from 11 meteorological stations, in and out of the area for the hydrological period jan 1971-...