Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought A Global Study [Hardcover]

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 ofMonitoring and Predicting Agricultural Droughthave 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.
Sponsored by the World Meterological Organization

Foreword by Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
Forward by Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization
1. Agricultural Drought and its Monitoring and Prediction: Some Concepts,Vijendra K. Boken
2. Drought Related Characteristics of Important Cereal Crops,Keith T. Ingram
3. Monitoring Agricultural Drought using El Ni?o and Southern Oscillation Data,Lino Naranjo D?iaz
4. Techniques to Predict Agricultural Droughts,Zekai ,Sen and Vijendra K. Boken
5. Drought Monitoring Using Coarse-Resolution Polar-Orbiting Satellite Data,Assaf Anyamba, Compton J. Tucker, Alfredo R. HlÃO