[1] Texas experienced the most extreme one-year drought on record in 2011 with precipitation at 40% of long-term mean and agricultural losses of ~$7.6 billion. We assess the value of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite-derived total water storage (TWS) change as an alternative remote sensing-based drought indicator, independent of traditional drought indicators based on in...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food supplying nutrition for more than half of the world’s population. Amylose content (AC) is widely considered as the most important factor determining rice grain quality for cooking, eating and processing. Field experiments of 32 rice varieties of different ecotypes grown under artificial drought stress from 30 days after transplanting to maturity and well ...

Drought is one of the most serious problems arising for human societies and ecosystems from climatevariability. This phenomenon causes billions of dollars in global damages annually and affects morepeople than any other form of natural disasters.In this study, the trends of rainfall and meteorological drought time series were investigated at tenstations located in the east of Iran for the perio...

Drought monitoring is a fundamental component of drought risk management. It is normally performed usingvarious drought indices that are effectively continuous functions of rainfall and other hydrometeorological variables.In many instances, drought indices are used for monitoring purposes. Geostatistical methods allow the interpolationof spatially referenced data and the prediction of values fo...

Drought is a normal, recurrent feature of climate that affects virtually all countries to some degree. The number of drought-induced natural disasters has grown significantly since the 1960s, largely as a result of increasing vulnerability to extended periods of precipitation deficiency rather than because of an increase in the frequency of meteorological droughts. This increase in drought-indu...

BACKGROUND The last few decades have recorded a high frequency of the meteorological drought phenomenon. Southern and south-eastern Romania make no exception, with such phenomena often occurring from July to November 2011, which brought about an agrometerological drought that lasted from the third decade of July to early December, with a slight improvement in October. This situation led to a de...

Drought is a recurring phenomenon in Ethiopia that significantly impacts the socioeconomic sector and various components of the environment. The overarching goal of this study is to assess the spatial and temporal patterns of meteorological drought using a satellite-derived rainfall product for the Upper Blue Nile Basin (UBN). The satellite rainfall product used in this study was selected throu...