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Author(s): World Meteorological Organization
ISBN(s): 9780195162349, 019516234X
Edition: Kindle
File Details: PDF, 5.90 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 019516234X

ISBN 13: 978-0195162349

Author: World Meteorological Organization

Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened economies, and even famine. In order to mitigate such effects, researchers must first be able to monitor them, and then predict them; however no book currently focuses on accurate monitoring or prediction of these devastating kinds of droughts. To fill this void, the editors of Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought have assembled a team of expert contributors from all continents to make a global study, describing biometeorological models and monitoring methods for agricultural droughts. These models and methods note the relationships between precipitation, soil moisture, and crop yields, using data gathered from conventional and remote sensing techniques. The coverage of the book includes probabilistic models and techniques used in America, Europe and the former USSR, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and it concludes with coverage of climate change and resultant shifts in agricultural productivity, drought early warning systems, and famine mitigation. This will be an essential collection for those who must advise governments or international organizations on the current scope, likelihood, and impact of agricultural droughts.

Table of contents: 

  1. Foreword by Michel Jarraud

  2. Agricultural Drought and Its Monitoring and Prediction

  3. Drought-Related Characteristics of Important Cereal Crops

  4. Monitoring Agricultural Drought Using El Niño and Southern

  5. Monitoring Drought Using Coarse-Resolution Polar-Orbiting

  6. NOAA-AVHRR Satellite Data-Based Indices for Monitoring

  7. Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Regional

  8. Active Microwave Systems for Monitoring Drought Stress

  9. Monitoring Agricultural Drought in Southern Africa

  10. Harnessing Radio and Internet Systems to Monitor and Mitigate

  11. Livestock Early Warning System for Africa’s Rangelands

  12. Monitoring and Managing Agricultural Drought in India

  13. Agricultural Drought in Vietnam

  14. Monitoring Agricultural Drought in China

  15. Monitoring Agricultural Drought in Australia

  16. World Meteorological Organization and Agricultural Droughts

  17. Monitoring Drought in the United States: Status and Trends

  18. Monitoring Agricultural Drought in Poland

  19. Monitoring Agricultural Drought in Mainland Portugal

  20. Agricultural Drought in Ethiopia

  21. Food and Agriculture Organization and Agricultural Droughts

  22. International Activities Related to Dryland Degradation Assessment

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