Monitoring Drought
Early Warning Systems for Drought Preparedness and Drought
Management
Published on this site with special permission of the
World Meteorological Organization (WMO/TD No. 1037)
Proceedings of an Expert Group Meeting held September 5-7, 2000, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Editors:
Donald A. Wilhite, M.V.K. Sivakumar and Deborah A. Wood.
Sponsors:
World Meteorological Organization
Institute of Meteorology - Lisbon, Portugal
National Drought Mitigation Center - University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE USA
Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification - Bonn, Germany
United Nations Development Programme Office to combat Desertification (UNDP/UNSO) - New York USA
Table of Contents
Drought Early Warning Systems in the Context of Drought Preparedness and Mitigation ...Donald A. Wilhite and Mark D. Svoboda
Role of Early Warning Systems in Decision Making Processes...Margaret Buchanan-Smith
Drought Science and Drought Policy in Australia: A Risk Management Perspective ...Greg Laughlin and Anthony Clark
Recommendations on Drought Monitoring by the U.S. National Drought Policy Commission...Ray Motha
Role of Drought Early Warning Systems in South Africa's Evolving Drought Policy ...Karl Monnik
Drought Early Warning Systems in West Asia and North Africa...E. DePauw
Contribution of Remote Sensing to Drought Early Warning...Felix N. Kogan
Drought Quantification and Preparedness in Brazil - The Example of São Paulo State ...O. Brunini, H.S. Pinto, J. Zullo, Jr., M.T. Barbano, M.B.P. Camargo, R.R. Alfonsi,G.C. Blain, M.J. Pedro, Jr., and G.Q. Pellegrino
Drought Early Warning and Impact Assessment in China...Kerang Li
Role of Drought Early Warning Systems for Sustainable Agricultural Research in India ...K.C. Sinha Ray
Regional Drought Monitoring Centres - The Case of Eastern and Southern Africa ...P.G. Ambenje
Meteorological Early Warning Systems (EWS) for Drought Preparedness and Drought Management in Nigeria ...L.E. Akeh, N. Nnoli, S. Gbuyiro, F. Ikehua, and S. Ogunbo
Drought Tendencies in Mainland Portugal...V. Cabrinha and F.E. Santo
Drought Monitoring in Hungary...S. Szalai, C.S. Szinell, and J. Zoboki
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