Drought stress caused by unpredictable precipitation poses a major threat to food production worldwide, and its impact is only expected to increase with the further onset of climate change. Understanding the effect of drought stress on crops and plants' response is critical for developing improved varieties with stable high yield to fill a growing food gap from an increasing population dependin...

Agricultural drought is the leading cause for crop failure throughout the world. In the USA, significant impacts of recent droughts on agricultural production indicate the continuing vulnerability of the country to drought. This paper presents a methodology for spatial representation of the agroclimatic component of agricultural drought vulnerability. This methodology was developed as a part of...

Drought is one of the most important natural disasters which is probable to occur in all regions with completely different climates and in addition to causing death. It results in many economic losses and social consequences. For this reason. Studying the effects and losses caused by drought which include limitation or shortage of agricultural and drinking water resources. Decreased rainfall an...

Climate change is affecting every aspect of human activities, especially the agriculture. In China, extreme drought events caused by climate change have posed a great threat to food safety. In this work we aimed to study the drought risk of maize in the farming–pastoral ecotone in Northern China based on physical vulnerability assessment. The physical vulnerability curve was constructed from th...

We examined the relationship between satellite measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) and several meteorological drought indices, including the multi-time-scale standard precipitation index (SPI) and the Palmer drought severity index (PDSI), to evaluate the potential of using SIF to monitor and assess drought. We found significant positive relationships between SIF and dro...

Drought is one of the most threatened natural vulnerabilities that are initiated by reason of scarcity of rain in a specific region. By comparing with all other natural hazards, it is very tough to discover since it develops slowly and have massive effect on the society and environment. Hence, in many countries satellite based drought indications have been recommended for early identification. ...

A synergistic fusion of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) L2 soil moisture with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-derived land surface temperature (LST) and several water/vegetation indices for agricultural drought monitoring was tested. The rationale of the calculation is based on the inverse relationship between LST and vegetation condition, related in turn w...

1. Introduction Drought causes damage to agricultural production and affects the balance of food supply and demand. As Obasi (1994) mentioned, droughts had affected 50% of 2.8 billion people who suffered from weather-related disasters. Moreover, 1.3 million people have died due to the direct and indirect cause of drought during 1967–91. East and South East Asia has the largest population in the...

This study presents a methodology for risk analysis and assessment of drought disaster to agricultural production in the maize-growing area of Songliao Plain of China based on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) from the viewpoints of climatology, geography, disaster science, and environmental science and so on. Crop yield–climate analysis and regression analysis were employed to analyze and...

By J. ARTHUR HARRIS, headj Department of Botany, University of Minnesota, and collaborator, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture; CLARA T. HOFFMAN, field assistant, Office of Alkali and Drought-Resistant Plant InvestigationSy Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture (1923-24); and WALTER F. HOFFMAN", assistant agricultural biochemist, Division of Agricultur...