
Drought Early Warning and Forecasting
Theory and Practice
Description
Key Features
- Describes and discusses the strategies and components used in effective and integrated 21st century drought early warning systems
- Provides a one-stop-shop that describes in one book the observations, models, forecasts, indices, social context, and theory used in drought early warning
- Identifies the latest tools and approaches used to monitor and forecast drought, sources of predictive skill, and discusses the technical and theoretical details required to use these tools and approaches in a real-world setting
Readership
Post-graduate scientists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students in hydrology, geography, earth sciences, meteorology, climatology or environmental sciences programs, Disaster Management professionals, insurance cat modelers
Table of Contents
1. Droughts, governance, disasters, and response systems
2. Drought early warning—definitions, challenges, and opportunities
3. Drought early warning systems
4. Tools of the trade 1—weather and climate forecasts
5. Tools of the trade 2—land surface models
6. Tools of the trade 3—mapping exposure and vulnerability
7. Theory—understanding atmospheric demand in a warming world
8. Theory—indices for measuring drought severity
9. Sources of drought early warning skill, staged prediction systems, and an example for Somalia
10. Practice—evaluating forecast skill
11. Practice—integrating observations and climate forecasts
12. Practice—actionable information and decision-making networks
13. Final thoughts
Product details
- No. of pages: 238
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2020
- Published: June 3, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128140116
- eBook ISBN: 9780128140123
About the Authors
Chris Funk
Affiliations and Expertise
Shraddhanand Shukla
Affiliations and Expertise
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