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Session 1 – Monday March 11th

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Session 1 – Drought Monitoring, Early Warning and Information Systems – Monday 11th

Abstract Nr.

Title

Authors

Affiliation

1

Mechanism and Countermeasures of FWS Persistent Drought in Southwest China

Bing ZHOU
Xiaoming WANG

 

2

Development of Drought Early Warning System of ZayandRud dam, Iran

Saeed Morid
Mehdi Gholamizadeh
Majid Delaver

Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

3

Global real time drought monitoring based on the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano1
Santiago Beguería2
Fergus Reig1
Borja Latorre2

1Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPE-CSIC), Campus de Aula Dei, P.O. Box 13034, E-50059, Zaragoza, Spain
2Estación Experimental de Aula Dei, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EEAD-CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain

4

Drought Monitoring and Early Warning System in Korea

Kyungsuk Cho1
Sang-Won Hahn2
Heonae Kim1
Hyun-kyung Kim1
Won-Tae Kwon1

1Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Seoul, Republic of Korea
2Prime Minister’s Office, Seoul, Republic of Korea 

5

Monitoring of droughts in south region of Brazil using satellite images 

Janice Leivas
Ricardo Andrade
Daniel Victoria
Fabio Torresan
Luis Vicente
Édson Bolfe

Researcher of Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, Campinas, SP, Brasil

6

Monitoring Drought Conditions using NASA Remote Sensing Measurements 

Amita Mehta
Ana Prados

NASA-University of Maryland Baltimore County Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), USA

7

Integrating policies For Drought Monitoring And Early Warning Systems through  Electronic Governance Based On WiMAX Technology For Development Of Rural Region

Kalpana Chaudhari1
Pradep Karule2

1YCCE, RTM, Nagpur University, Nagpur, India 
2YCCE, Nagpur ,India

8

Analysis and Monitorization of Droughts In Mainland Portugal 

Vanda Pires
Álvaro Silva

Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute (IPMA), Portugal

9

Monitoring soybean root development under drought conditions by till-system management

Hossein Aliabadi Farahani

Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran

10

Characterisation of drought using Severity – Duration – Frequency (SDF) curves

Siti Nazahiyah Rahmat
Niranjali Jayasuriya

School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

11

Droughts monitoring in Lithuania

Donatas Valiukas

Donatas Valiukas, Vilnius University, Department of Hydrology and Climatology, Vilnius, Lithuania

12

Enhancing drought monitoring and prediction service for Australia

S. Theiveyanathan
M.A. Bari
G.E. Amirthanathan
D. Jayasuriya

Climate and Water Division, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

13

Climatic variability in the Sub – Saharan region

Simon Peter Ssebudde1
SSONKO Simon1
DWANYA John2
NAMUWONGE Susan2
MUWONGE Silas2
SEKAYI Herbert2

1Global Initiative Uganda (GIU), Kyotera, Uganda
2Makarere University, kampala, Uganda

14

Incorporating  FAO LADA methodology into SLM-Information System for assessment and monitoring of DLDD in Uzbekistan

B. Kadirov1
U. Abdullaev2
G. Khasankhanova2
R. Taryanikova1

1Centre of Hydrometeorological Service (Uzhydromet) , Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2Design and Research UZGIP Institute, MAWR Tashkent, Uzbekistan

15

DROUGHT EARLY WARNING SYSTEM IN UZBEKISTAN

Natalya Agaltseva1
Alexander Pak2

1UNDP project “Climate risk management”, Uzbekistan
2Hydrometeorological Research Institute, Uzbekistan

16

Global Agriculture Drought Monitoring using the FAO-Agriculture Stress Index System (ASIS) 

Oscar Rojas

Natural Resources Officer, FAO

17

Farmers’ adaptive behaviour to climatic change

Eddy Jacobson Mutawe1
Robert Mukasa1
Mary Namugenyi2 

1Rural-Urban Change Agency (RUCA), Uganda
2Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

18

Drought Assessment and Monitoring for Sustainable Production of Tef Crop and Land Managemnet Using Geoinformation Science 

Balehager Ayalew
John J Qu 

Environmental Science and Technology Center, College of Science, George Mason University, USA

19

Drought Monitoring on the territory CIS: Advances and Perspectives

A.D. Kleshchenko

National Research Institute on Agricultural Meteorology

20

Climate Services with ICA&D

E. van den Besselaar
A. van Engelen
A. Klein Tank
G. van der Schrier
R. Leander
G. Verver

Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)

21

A Drought Study in the Horn of Africa with Terra MODIS Measurements

Jason Choi1
John J. Qu2

1Sigmaspace, USA

2Environmental Science and Technology Center/Department of GGS, College of Science, George Mason University, USA

22

Drought Monitoring and Prediction In Indonesia

S.W.B. Harijono
A.E. Sakya
W. Sulistya 
Nurhayati
N.F. Riama
A. Sopaheluwakan
A.M. Setiawan

The Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics – Indonesia (BMKG)

23

The Drought Management Center for South-Eastern Europe – cornerstone of drought management in the region

Andreja Sušnik
Gregor Gregorič

Meteorological Office, Environmental Agency of Republic of Slovenia

24

TOWARDS A DROUGHT EARLY-WARNING AND MONITORING SYSTEM IN THE MAGHREB

Mourad BRIKI1
Hervé TREBOSSEN1
Noureddine Bijaber2
Amine Aouni3

1Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel
2Centre Royal de Télédétection Spatiale, Maroc
3Centre National de Cartographie et de Télédétection, Tunisie

25

Hydroclimatic Extremes: The Relationship between Droughts and Drought-Ending Extreme Precipitation Events

Robert S. Webb