Drought management in Sri Lanka is mostly limited to relief provision due the shortage of scientific details develop sufficient drought risk management. Therefore, spatio-temporal variability droughts two cropping seasons, Yala (May–August) and Maha (October–March) Lanka, have been investigated using Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). The SPEI-4 at August (SPEI-4August)...

In recent decades, the area and proportion of planted forests have increased; thus, understanding the responses of planted and natural forests to drought are crucial because it forms the basis for forest risk assessments and management strategies. In this study, we combined the moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) enhanced vegetation index (EVI), meteorological aridity indices,...

introduction: drought is a natural and recurrent feature of climate. the characterizations of it may change under the effect of climate change in future periods. during the last few decades a number of different indices have been developed to quantify drought probabilities. droughts are caused by disruptions to an expected precipitation pattern and can be intensified by unusually high temperatu...

There are limited literature on the impacts of drought crop yields in warm regions such as southwest China. Drought vulnerability four different crops (wheat, rice, maize and sugarcane) cultivated three provinces (Sichuan, Guizhou Yunnan) within China were investigated this study. It was based index standardized precipitation evapotranspiration (SPEI) for -3- -6 months timescales (SPEI-3 SPEI-6...

As a Semi-arid country, Burkina Faso is highly vulnerable to climate-related disasters such as drought and flood. Analyzing signature therefore key factor in advocating climate change adaptation at the local scale. In this study, Spatiotemporal trends of were conducted for period 1960–2021 within Massili Basin using standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) package R. The non-p...

Abstract In this research, SPEI (standardized precipitation and evaporation index) was used as an alternative index to SPI to study drought in warm southern coastal regions of Iran. Drought has a multi-scale nature that can be analyzed in time scales via analysis of precipitation and temperature data. Therefore, data were colected from 105 synoptic stations in Iran in 2015; Respective stati...

The aim of this study was to characterize genetically Bulgarian Erwinia amylovora strains using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis. Fifty E. amylovora strains isolated from different hosts, locations, as well as in different years were analysed by PFGE after XbaI, SpeI, and XhoI digestion of the genomic DNA. The strains were distributed into four groups according to their XbaI-gen...

Remote sensing is used for monitoring the impacts of meteorological drought on ecosystems, but few large-scale comparisons of the response timescale to drought of different vegetation remote sensing products are available. We correlated vegetation health products derived from polar-orbiting radiometer observations with a meteorological drought indicator available at different aggregation timesc...