Droughts are a recurrent and natural part of the Australian hydroclimate, with evidence of drought dating back thousands of years. However, our ability to monitor, attribute, forecast and manage drought is exposed as insufficient whenever a drought occurs. This paper summarises what is known about ...
Conservation Measures in Dry Conditions:In drought conditions, Natural England, the government’s conservation advisory body, may restrict access to certain areas, such as national nature reserves, if there is a risk of fire caused by dry conditions. These measures aim to protect valuable natural ...
Due to widespread crop failure in China's Wei River Valley, famine spread throughout Northwest China from 1928 to 1930. In addition to natural causes, military activity worsened conditions. Warlords had been stripping various Chinese regions of grain, livestock, and other resources. This led to ...
The atmospheric circulation creates favourable conditions for drought, which can be initiated by sea surface temperature anomalies. The most common source of episodic droughts around the world is the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). During El Niño events, there are major droughts over Austral...
production capacities and other tangible human assets located in hazard-prone areas; and vulnerability is the conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes10,11,12,13that increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets or systems to the im...
production capacities and other tangible human assets located in hazard-prone areas; and vulnerability is the conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes10,11,12,13that increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets or systems to the im...
In years with favorable moisture conditions, enhanced vegetation growth boosts photosynthesis, chlorophyll synthesis, and leaf development, resulting in higher NDVI values (Peng et al., 2019). 4.2. Differences in response to severe drought between poplar plantations and natural forests Differences in ...
The findings provide insights that can be used by natural resource management practitioners in; drought forecasting, early warning systems, and in planning and management of water resources within the watershed. We recommend characterisation of the other types of droughts, agricultural and socio-economic...
natural drought without GERD, under the seven suggested policies during the prolonged drought period of AHD level below 165 m (1981–1998, 18 years).cThe compression between the cumulative economic impact of water deficit and hydropower generation at AHD triggered only by GERD operation, and ...
To assess the effect of flow regulations on regional droughts, we compare drought characteristics of catchments with medium to large-sized reservoirs versus catchments with natural to near- natural flow conditions (TableS2) for representative locations for the common period 1987–2013. Following ref....