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Session 1 – Drought Monitoring, Early Warning and Information Systems – Monday 11th
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Abstract Nr. |
Title |
Authors |
Affiliation |
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1 |
Mechanism and Countermeasures of FWS Persistent Drought in Southwest China |
Bing ZHOU |
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2 |
Development of Drought Early Warning System of ZayandRud dam, Iran |
Saeed Morid |
Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran |
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3 |
Global real time drought monitoring based on the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index |
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano1 |
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 |
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4 |
Drought Monitoring and Early Warning System in Korea |
Kyungsuk Cho1 |
1Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Seoul, Republic of Korea |
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5 |
Monitoring of droughts in south region of Brazil using satellite images |
Janice Leivas |
Researcher of Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, Campinas, SP, Brasil |
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6 |
Monitoring Drought Conditions using NASA Remote Sensing Measurements |
Amita Mehta |
NASA-University of Maryland Baltimore County Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), USA |
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7 |
Integrating policies For Drought Monitoring And Early Warning Systems through Electronic Governance Based On WiMAX Technology For Development Of Rural Region |
Kalpana Chaudhari1 |
1YCCE, RTM, Nagpur University, Nagpur, India |
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8 |
Analysis and Monitorization of Droughts In Mainland Portugal |
Vanda Pires |
Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute (IPMA), Portugal |
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9 |
Monitoring soybean root development under drought conditions by till-system management |
Hossein Aliabadi Farahani |
Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran |
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10 |
Characterisation of drought using Severity – Duration – Frequency (SDF) curves |
Siti Nazahiyah Rahmat |
School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
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11 |
Droughts monitoring in Lithuania |
Donatas Valiukas |
Donatas Valiukas, Vilnius University, Department of Hydrology and Climatology, Vilnius, Lithuania |
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12 |
Enhancing drought monitoring and prediction service for Australia |
S. Theiveyanathan |
Climate and Water Division, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia |
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13 |
Climatic variability in the Sub – Saharan region |
Simon Peter Ssebudde1 |
1Global Initiative Uganda (GIU), Kyotera, Uganda |
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14 |
Incorporating FAO LADA methodology into SLM-Information System for assessment and monitoring of DLDD in Uzbekistan |
B. Kadirov1 |
1Centre of Hydrometeorological Service (Uzhydromet) , Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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15 |
DROUGHT EARLY WARNING SYSTEM IN UZBEKISTAN |
Natalya Agaltseva1 |
1UNDP project “Climate risk management”, Uzbekistan |
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16 |
Global Agriculture Drought Monitoring using the FAO-Agriculture Stress Index System (ASIS) |
Oscar Rojas |
Natural Resources Officer, FAO |
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17 |
Farmers’ adaptive behaviour to climatic change |
Eddy Jacobson Mutawe1 |
1Rural-Urban Change Agency (RUCA), Uganda |
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18 |
Drought Assessment and Monitoring for Sustainable Production of Tef Crop and Land Managemnet Using Geoinformation Science |
Balehager Ayalew |
Environmental Science and Technology Center, College of Science, George Mason University, USA |
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19 |
Drought Monitoring on the territory CIS: Advances and Perspectives |
A.D. Kleshchenko |
National Research Institute on Agricultural Meteorology |
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20 |
Climate Services with ICA&D |
E. van den Besselaar |
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) |
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21 |
A Drought Study in the Horn of Africa with Terra MODIS Measurements |
Jason Choi1 |
1Sigmaspace, USA 2Environmental Science and Technology Center/Department of GGS, College of Science, George Mason University, USA |
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22 |
Drought Monitoring and Prediction In Indonesia |
S.W.B. Harijono |
The Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics – Indonesia (BMKG) |
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23 |
The Drought Management Center for South-Eastern Europe – cornerstone of drought management in the region |
Andreja Sušnik |
Meteorological Office, Environmental Agency of Republic of Slovenia |
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24 |
TOWARDS A DROUGHT EARLY-WARNING AND MONITORING SYSTEM IN THE MAGHREB |
Mourad BRIKI1 |
1Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel |
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25 |
Hydroclimatic Extremes: The Relationship between Droughts and Drought-Ending Extreme Precipitation Events |
Robert S. Webb |
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