Keywords:
Water-supply -- Management.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136540417
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1046811
DDC:
363.34/929
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, Boxes and Plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Drought Today -- Drought and Global Change -- The Motivation for this Book -- An Overview of the Book -- Chapter 2. What is Drought? -- The Hazard of Drought -- Defining Drought -- Chapter 3. The Science of Drought -- Introduction -- The Hydrological Cycle -- Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Hydrology -- What Causes Drought? -- Summary -- Chapter 4. Quantifying Drought -- Introduction -- Drought Data -- Monitoring Drought from Space -- Modelling Drought -- Palaeoclimate Data: Reconstructing Drought over Millennia -- Quantifying Drought: Characteristics and Indices -- Summary -- Chapter 5. Palaeo-drought: The Occurrence of Drought over Past Millennia -- Introduction -- Climate of the Holocene -- Drought in the Holocene -- The Last 2000 Years -- The Last 1000 Years -- Drought in Recent Centuries -- Global Mechanisms and Connections -- Summary -- Chapter 6. Drought in the 20th Century -- Introduction -- Climate of the 20th Century -- The Global Extent of 20th-Century Drought -- Characteristics of Global Drought -- Regional Drought over the 20th Century -- Global Variability in Soil Moisture and Links with Large-Scale Climate Variability -- Global Variability in Drought and Links with Large-Scale Climate Variability -- Summary -- Chapter 7. Major Drought Events of the 20th Century -- Introduction -- North America -- South America -- Europe -- Africa -- Asia -- Oceania -- The Most Severe Droughts of the 20th Century -- Chapter 8. Drought in the 21st Century -- Introduction -- Mechanisms of Changes in Drought -- Climate Models, Emission Scenarios and Future Projections -- Drought Estimation -- Projected Future Changes in Drought -- Potential Impacts of Future Drought -- Chapter 9. Summary and Recommendations.
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Conclusions -- Index -- Plates.
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