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Drought Index Development for Agricultural Drought Monitoring in a Catchment

open access: yesKorean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2014
Natinal Institute of Horticultural & Herbal Science, RDA, Jeju 690-150, Korea(Received September 27, 2014; Revised November 7, 2014; Accepted November 9, 2014)ABSTRACTDrought index can be used to implement an early warning system for drought and to operate adrought monitoring service.
Dae-Jun Kim, Kyung-Hwan Moon, Jin I. Yun
openaire   +2 more sources

CONTEMPORARY DROUGHT MONITORING WITH THE STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX: EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF NONSTATIONARY PRECIPITATION REGIMES IN THE CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES ON THE CHARACTERIZATION OF DROUGHT [PDF]

open access: yes
This dissertation examines the impact of shifting climatic conditions on the accuracy and reliability of drought characterization in the contiguous United States using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI).
Spade, Daniela
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Weather Attention in Online Discourse and Price Uncertainty in Agricultural Futures Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather is a central determinant of production risk in agricultural markets, but markets respond not only to weather conditions themselves, but also to how those conditions are noticed, framed, and interpreted in public discourse. In this setting, real‐time online weather discussions may shape price uncertainty by influencing how market ...
Mario A. Ortez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing the potential of ASCAT Surface Soil Moisture 6.25 km for drought monitoring over Mexico [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
This study assessed the potential of the ASCAT SSM 6.25 km product for agricultural drought monitoring across Mexico. The drought monitoring in Mexico currently relies on precipitation-based indices, without considering the use of in situ soil moisture ...
D. A. Vázquez Rodríguez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

USAPI USDM: Operational Drought Monitoring in the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2020
The U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) has been the de facto operational drought monitoring product for the United States for the last two decades. For most of this time, its coverage included the 50 States and Puerto Rico.
Richard R. Heim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

AI‐Enabled RGB Light‐to‐Frequency Sensor for Nondestructive Salinity Stress Monitoring in Medicinal Plants

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A distributed wireless sensing framework enables noninvasive monitoring of plant salinity stress through leaf reflectance measurements acquired with portable optical sensors. The collected data are processed using TinyML‐based neural network models deployed at the edge, enabling accurate, real‐time, and low‐cost classification of salinity levels, while
Ali Ahmad   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Integrated Drought Monitoring and Prediction System (GIDMaPS)

open access: yes, 2019
The Global Integrated Drought Monitoring and Prediction System (GIDMaPS) is a drought monitoring and prediction system that provides near real-time drought information based on multiple drought indicators and input data ...

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Improving meteorological drought monitoring capability over tropical and subtropical water-limited ecosystems: evaluation and ensemble of the Microwave Integrated Drought Index

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2019
The monitoring of meteorological drought is critically important for tropical and subtropical water-limited ecosystems, which play key roles in the global carbon cycle and ecosystem services.
Anzhi Zhang, Gensuo Jia, Hesong Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Mexican drought: natural variability and climate change from the Medieval period to the greenhouse future

open access: yes, 2008
The ongoing drought in the western U.S. began in 1998 and has now continued, with some interruptions and despite a quite wet winter 2007/8, for close to 10 years.
Seager, R.
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How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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