Drought: Research and Science-Policy Interfacing

ISBN: 9781138027794 出版年：2015 页码：530 CRC Press

Droughts occur in arid and semi-arid areas of the world, but also in humid areas, and can develop over short periods (flash drought) or longer periods (seasons/decades). Even though progress has been made, it remains difficult to adequately characterize, monitor, forecast and manage droughts, due to their multi-faceted nature.Usually, drought does