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Types of Drought in India
Hydrological drought: A marked depletion of surface water causing very low stream flow and drying of lakes, rivers and reservoirs (iii) Agricultural drought: Inadequate soil moisture ... drought 1987, 1979, 1972. Drought 2001-2002 Drought and flood affected regions This year, 19 per cent of India's land area experienced 'moderate drought' ; 10 per cent suffered 'severe drought' ...
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Press Release: Global Warming - Drought boosts campaign to drain one of the West's biggest reservoirs, By John Krist, Environmental News Network, Friday, August 27, 2004
May 20. "The summer thunderstorm season during July and August will likely bring no more than short-term relief from dryness, and the long-term hydrological drought should persist at least until next winter's snow season." Although the drought may be the most severe that has struck the ...
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NCDC: Historic Palmer Drought Indices
Drought Index (PMDI): Operational version of the PDSI. Description available in Heddinghaus and Sabol (1991). Palmer Hydrological Drought Index (PHDI): measures hydrological impacts of drought (e.g., reservoir levels, groundwater levels, etc.) which take longer to develop and longer to recover from. This long-term drought ...
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Drought Royal Meteorological Society UK, Weather and Climate
When a water shortage affects people and their lives in respect of the supply and demand of economic goods or resources, we speak of a socio-economic drought. The ...
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Climate Prediction Center -
For meteorological drought, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is used to measure precipitation deficits. The Standardized Runoff Index (SRI), similar to the SPI, is used to classify hydrological drought. Agricultural drought ...
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Climate Prediction Center - Monitoring & Data: Drought Monitoring
Drought Indicator Blends - The CPC also produces two experimental drought blend maps, featuring a long-term drought blend of indices designed to better depict hydrological drought and a short-term blend to depict agricultural drought ...
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Transcript: How Water Scarcity Will Shape the New Century
That was driven in part by drought. It is an indication of how rapidly the growth ... on hydrological poverty. With populations growing fast in water-short regions of the world, scores of countries are facing acute hydrological shortage — ... to hold the line everywhere, at two surviving children. Otherwise, hydrological poverty is going to be inevitable and, unlike other forms ...
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Weather Machine
When It Rains It Pours A larger energy input also cranks up the hydrological cycle - the natural process of evaporation and precipitation - generally meaning that dry places will ... probably include the southern parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario becoming more prone to drought and dust-bowl type conditions, while the west coast will receive even more precipitation, ...
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Futurewater - Newsarchive
Home Expertise Methods Projects Publications About us Dutch site Futurewater News archive 2008 July Drought assessment using new climate scenarios in the North of the Netherlands June FutureWater ... cycle in the Krishna basin (India) March Collaboration between FutureWater and Tterra (Portugal) February Hydrological assessment of Rio Bravo in Mexico January Positive and negative effects of drainage ...
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Drought monitoring | ESA_WAT
The hydrological model SWAT is used in this project as an operational drought monitoring system. The linkage between the previous mentioned RS techniques ... force and calibrate the system. This opens the unique opportunity to integrate Remote Sensing with hydrological modeling. The SWAT model will be set-up for the basin based on data on ...
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