As the effects of droughts on agriculture and industrial water availability intensify with climate change, developing suitable drought prevention mitigation measures has become increasingly important. However, measuring conditions using different indices leads to disjointed management responses by ministries agencies. Additionally, based only one variable are insufficient accurately assess cond...

There are limited drought studies for the Caribbean. This is concerning since not only one of most devastating disasters in region, but it also least understood disasters. Very few papers analyze new ways to identify and monitor this disaster. Another major arguable gap research Caribbean’s sole focus on meteorological disregard agricultural drought. an important omission because significant ne...

Groundwater drought denotes the condition and hazard during a prolonged meteorological drought when groundwater resources decline and become unavailable or inaccessible for human use. The aim of this study is to identify the influencial factors on groundwater drought in Hamadan- Bahar Watershed,Iran, to understand the forcing mechanisms. The Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) has been used ...