Drought conditions in Florida fluctuated in February on the U.S. Drought Monitor. On Feb. 14, seventeen counties had a Keetch-Byram Drought Index above 500, indicating an elevated fire danger (The Ledger). The fire season typically extends from January into May or June, according to the Flor...
Hence, understanding local ENSO patterns on regional scales and developing a new land use drought index in Florida are critical and necessary in agriculture and water resources planning and managements. This paper presented a 32 km high resolution land use adapted drought index on five different ...
DSIDrought Severity Index DSIDynamic Systems Initiative(Microsoft) DSIDutch Securities Institute DSIDepartment of Safety and Inspections(Minnesota) DSIDéfense et Sécurité Internationale(French: Defense and International Security; publication) DSIData Storage Institute ...
Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA William M. Hammond Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA A. Park Williams Management of Complex Systems, University of California, Merced, CA, USA John T. Abatzoglou ...
Global warming is expected to enhance drought extremes in the United States throughout the twenty-first century. Projecting these changes can be complex in regions with large variability in atmospheric and soil moisture on small spatial scales. Vapor Pre
to sewage, creating a negative public health perception (Hartley, 2006). Communities, such as San Diego, California, Tampa, Florida, and Queensland, Australia, had to shut down reclaimed water use projects because of failed community outreach and heavy pushback from citizens regarding the safety ...
In an article set to appear in Friday's issue of the journal Science, a team of researchers led by a University of Florida geologist reports finding that the Yucatan Peninsula, seat of the ancient Maya civilization, was buffeted by recurrent droughts. More importantly, the research shows, the...
Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA Xiao Feng Eversource Energy Center and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA Cory Merow & Brian Maitner CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applie...
Holling, a professor of ecology at the University of Florida, introduced the concept of “ecosystem resilience” in his book Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems in 197322. He is the first to import the concept of resilience into ecology. He defined the concept of resilience as the ...
By Wednesday, rain will expand farther eastward to drench portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Whether the rainfall will make enough of a dent in Louisiana’s exceptional drought to warrant a downgrade in drought intensity remains to be seen. ...