Drought Monitoring and Risk Assessment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 9057
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drought risk analysis; ecological drought; drought propagation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Droughts pose significant challenges to water resource management and can lead to severe environmental, social, and economic impacts. With climate change and increasing human pressure on water resources, the frequency and intensity of drought events are expected to rise. Therefore, it is crucial to advance our understanding and methodologies for drought monitoring and risk assessment to develop effective mitigation and adaptation strategies.
We are pleased to announce a Special Issue on “Drought Monitoring and Risk Assessment”, which aims to explore the latest advances in the methodologies, technologies, and applications in the field. We invite contributions that present innovative approaches, including the use of remote sensing, modeling, in situ measurements, and other emerging techniques to better understand and address the challenges posed by drought events.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advances in drought monitoring techniques and tools, including remote sensing, in situ measurements, and modeling;
- Development and application of indicators and indices for drought characterization, monitoring, and early warning;
- Integration of hydrological, meteorological, socioeconomic, and ecological data for comprehensive drought risk assessment;
- Assessment of drought impacts on water resources, agriculture, ecosystems, and human systems;
- Evaluation of drought vulnerability and resilience on various spatial and temporal scales;
- Formulation and execution of drought management plans, considering climate adaptation and mitigation measures for water resources and ecosystem preservation;
- Exploration of the role of climate change and human activities in altering drought patterns and risks.
We encourage the submission of original research articles, reviews, case studies, and technical notes that will contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the field of drought monitoring and risk assessment, with a balanced focus on different aspects of drought and its implications for ecosystems and society.
Prof. Dr. Yanping Qu
Dr. Xuejun Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drought monitoring
- risk assessment
- climate change adaptation
- drought mitigation strategies
- remote sensing
- water resource management
- vulnerability and resilience
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Dynamic variations of vegetation drought and its response to atmospheric circulation factors in different sub-zones of China
Authors: Fei Wang a, Hexin Lai a, Yanbin Li a,*, Kai Feng a, Qingqing Tian a,b, Wenxian Guo a, Danyang Di c, Haibo Yang c,*
Affiliation: a School of Water Conservancy, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450046, China b State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, China c School of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001,
Abstract: Vegetation drought is a complex comprehensive process in which the water conditions for normal growth and development of vegetation are changed due to insufficient water supply, and then the vegetation is fed back to the ecosystem under water stress. In this study, based on the remotely sensed vegetation health index (VHI) data from 1982 to 2020 in China, the extreme-point symmetric mode decomposition (EPSMD) was used to analyze the dynamic variations of vegetation drought, the gridded trend test method was applied to identify the vegetation drought trend characteristics at the grid scale, and the multiple cross wavelet technique was adopted to reveal the coupling effect of atmospheric circulation factors on vegetation drought. The results indicated that: (1) the vegetation drought showed an overall decreasing trend during 1982–2020 in China, while it would show an increasing trend in the future; (2) spring drought and summer drought were more likely to occur in South China, and autumn drought and winter drought were more likely to occur in Sichuan Basin; (3) the trend characteristic values of VHI in spring, summer, autumn, and winter were 0.70, 0.48, 0.59 and 0.48, and the most obvious vegetation drought mitigation trend occurred in spring; (4) the combination of atmospheric circulation factors North Pacific Index (NPI)-North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)-Arctic Oscillation (AO) had the most significant impact on vegetation drought, which can be used as input factors of drought early warning system to improve the accuracy of drought prediction.