Drought Early Warning and Forecasting: Theory and Practice - Softcover

Funk, Chris; Shukla, Shraddhanand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128140119 ISBN 13: 9780128140116

Verlag: Elsevier, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Drought Early Warning and Forecasting: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive overview of drought-related scientific research, describes the available tools and techniques, and informs readers on 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 mitigation
• Presents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of observations, models and vulnerability assessments, allowing readers to learn about the primary climatic dynamics that lead to drought
• Examines long-term changes in drought and identifies the latest tools and approaches being used to monitor and forecast drought to mitigate socioeconomic losses

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Chris Funk is a senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center and Research Director for the Climate Hazards Center at University of California, Santa Barbara, United States. Since 1999 he has worked closely with the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, developing new techniques, data sets, and methods for improved drought early warning. He has published over 140 papers and reports, and currently helps guide the development of early warning and climate adaptation science for the U.S. Geological Survey, working closely with partners from UCSB, USAID, NASA, and NOAA.

Shraddhanand Shukla is a researcher with the Climate Hazards Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, United States. He is a large-scale hydrologist with primary research interests and over 10 years of experience in drought monitoring and forecasting. He has published over 45 peer-reviewed journal articles. His current work, which is funded by NASA, NOAA, USAGS, USAID, NSF, etc., focuses primarily on improving existing drought monitoring and early warning capabilities nationally (California and Nevada region) and internationally (primarily Africa and the Middle East) using remote sensing datasets, large-scale hydrologic models, and weather/climate forecasts.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Elsevier
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0128140119
• ISBN 13: 9780128140116
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italien