Drought Forecasting and Early Warning: Theory and Practice

Drought Early Warning: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive overview of drought-related scientific research, describes the available tools and techniques, and informs readers pm how to use these tools and techniques to effectively identify, predict and communicate potential drought-related disasters. Throughout the book, the authors incorporate 'climate change' as a pragmatic component of effective drought early warning, dealing explicitly with climate non-stationarity, increased climate variability, and the impacts of air temperature extremes. This comprehensive resource simultaneously addresses the physical, social and information management aspects of drought early warning. Assesses past and future drought impacts, drought monitoring, prediction and early warning systems, vulnerability and mitigationPresents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of observations, models and vulnerability assessments, allowing readers to learn about the primary climatic dynamics that lead to droughtExamines long-term changes in drought and identifies the latest tools and approaches being used to monitor and forecast drought to mitigate socioeconomic losses INDICE: 1. Droughts in History and Historic Droughts2. Drought Early Warning - definitions, challenges and opportunities3. Tools of the trade 1 - observations and reanalyses4. Tools of the trade 2 - Weather and climate forecasts5. Tools of the trade 3 - Land surface models6. Tools of the trade 4 - mapping exposure and vulnerability7. Theory - Understanding atmospheric demand in a warming world8. Theory - Indices for measuring drought severity9. Practice - Sources of drought early warning skill10. Practice - Evaluating dynamic and statistical climate model forecast skill11. Practice - Integrating observations and climate forecasts12. Practice - Droughts, Fires, and Famines13. Practice - Actionable information and decision making networks14. Conclusions - the future of drought early warning in a warming world

• ISBN: 978-0-12-814011-6
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés