Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity: Principles of Drought and Water Scarcity

Editors
Contributors
1 Definition of Drought
Neil A. Coles and Saeid Eslamian
2 Desertification and Drought
Victor R. Squires
3 Meteorological Drought Indices: Definitions
Nicolas R. Dalezios, Zoltan Dunkel, and Saeid Eslamian
4 Hydrological Drought: Water Surface and Duration Curve Indices
Manish Kumar Goyal, Vivek Gupta, and Saeid Eslamian
5 Agricultural Drought Indices: Combining Crop, Climate, and Soil Factors
Nicolas R. Dalezios, Anne Gobin, Ana M. Tarquis Alfonso, and Saeid Eslamian
6 Agricultural Drought: Organizational Perspectives
Parvaneh TishehZan and Saeid Eslamian
7 Ocean Oscillation and Drought Indices: Principles
Olumide D. Onafeso
8 Ocean Oscillation and Drought Indices: Application
Mohammad Hadi Bazrkar and Saeid Eslamian
9 Cause and Occurrence of Drought
Rumia Basu, Chander Kumar Singh, and Saeid Eslamian
10 Drought Modeling Methods
João Filipe Santos, Inmaculada Pulido-Calvo, and Maria Manuela Portela
11 Drought Modeling Examples
Javad Bazrafshan, Somayeh Hejabi, and Saeid Eslamian
12 Observational Network and Drought Monitoring
Brij Bhushan
13 Real-Time Drought Management
Jonathan Peter Cox, Sara Shaeri Karimi, and Saeid Eslamian
14 Monitoring, Assessment, and Forecasting of Drought Using Remote Sensing and the Geographical Information System
Vaibhav Garg and Saeid Eslamian
15 Regionalization of Drought Prediction
Manish Kumar Goyal and Ashutosh Sharma
16 Drought Severity in a Changing Climate
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Santiago Beguería, and Jesús Julio Camarero
17 Drought Early Warning and Information Systems
Richard R. Heim Jr., Michael J. Brewer, Roger S. Pulwarty, Donald A. Wilhite, Michael J. Hayes, and Mannava V.K. Sivakumar
18 Drought Assessment and Risk Analysis
Nicolas R. Dalezios, Ana M. Tarquis Alfonso, and Saeid Eslamian
19 New Approaches for Effective Drought Risk Assessment
Yildirim Kayam and Muslum Beyazgül
20 Drought and Acceptable Risks for Public Systems
Avanish K. Panikkar
21 Remote Sensing in Drought Quantification and Assessment
Nicolas R. Dalezios, Nicos V. Spyropoulos, and Saeid Eslamian
22 NASA Satellite–Based Global Precipitation Products and Services for Drought
Zhong Liu, Dana Ostrenga, William Teng, Steven J. Kempler, and Bruce Vollmer
23 Application of Data-Driven Models in Drought Forecasting
Shahab Araghinejad, Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari, and Saeid Eslamian
24 Application of Intelligent Technology in Rainfall Analysis
Mehdi Vafakhah and Saeid Eslamian
25 Application of the Optimization Models and Decision Support Systems in Drought
Emery A. Coppola Jr., Manuel Sapiano, Michael Schembri, and Ferenc Szidarovszky
26 Copula Functions and Drought
Shahrbanou Madadgar and Hamid Moradkhani
27 Drought Frequency Characterization in Spain by Means of T Analysis
Javier Álvarez-Rodríguez and Luis Miguel Barranco
28 Rainfall Prediction Using Time Series Analysis
Mehdi Vafakhah, Hussein Akbari Majdar, and Saeid Eslamian
29 Meteorological Drought Indices: Rainfall Prediction in Argentina
Marcela H. González, Eugenia M. Garbarini, Alfredo L. Rolla, and Saeid Eslamian
30 Modeling Hydrological Process by ARIMA–GARCH Time Series
Reza Hadizadeh and Saeid Eslamian
31 Gradation of Drought-Prone Area
Never Mujere, Xiaohua Yang, and Saeid Eslamian
32 Social Aspects of Water Scarcity and Drought
Johanna Hohenthal and Paola Minoia
33 Drought Losses to Local Economy
Md Mahmudul Haque, Amir Ahmed, Ataur Rahman, and Saeid Eslamian
34 Analysis of Drought Factors Affecting the Economy
Bapon S.H.M. Fakhruddin and Saeid Eslamian
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