Drought, a prolonged period of precipitation deficit, is one of the most significant hydro-meteorological hazards affecting agriculture, water resources, ecosystems, and socio-economic systems, and ...

The calculation of the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) involves transforming a fitted probability distribution (often Gamma) into a standard normal distribution. A critical step in this process ...

Groundwater drought poses a significant threat to water and food security. In arid regions, groundwater can be the primary resource for irrigation and related agri-food sectors. Hence, herein, we ...

As of Wednesday, the Pittsburgh area is in its 11th dry day in a row, with a stretch that began on Sept. 7. While the current stretch is not the longest on record, it is growing and slowly ...

The need to use a length of rainfall records of at least 30 years to calculate the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) limits its application in several Drought Early Warning Systems of developing ...

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According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), weather conditions have become hotter and drier, especially in the western United States, over the past few decades [1]. Dryness and drought may be ...