Quite simply, drought kills. In an effort to combat it, the international contributors of these 34 papers cover the basic concepts of agricultural drought and its monitoring, prediction and analysis, techniques and examples of remote sensing such as passive and active microwave systems, and case studies from the Americas, Europe, Russia, the Near East, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The final papers address international efforts to predict and control drought and its effects and issues of climate change. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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 of Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought have 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
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This book's 34 chapters provide quite a thorough and capable overv0ew of the techniques used to monitor drought in both developed and developing countires.... Monitoring and Prediciting Agricultural Drought has a wealth of information on crops,climate, and drought monintoring techniques for 19 countries and regions of the world. * Bulletin of American Meteorological Society *
Foreword by Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
Forward by Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization
1: Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Drought and its Monitoring and Prediction:
Some Concepts
2: Keith T. Ingram: Drought Related Characteristics of Important Cereal
Crops
3: Lino Naranjo D¢iaz: Monitoring Agricultural Drought using El Nińo and
Southern Oscillation Data
4: Zekai ,Sen and Vijendra K. Boken: Techniques to Predict Agricultural
Droughts
5: Assaf Anyamba, Compton J. Tucker, Alfredo R. Huete, and Vijendra K.
Boken: Drought Monitoring Using Coarse-Resolution Polar-Orbiting Satellite
Data
6: Felix N. Kogan: NOAA/AVHRR Satellite Data Based Indices for Monitoring
Agricultural Droughts
7: Thomas J. Jackson: Passive Microwaves Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and
Regional Drought Monitoring
8: Anne M. Smith, Klaus Scipal, and Wolfgang Wagner: Active Microwaves
Systems for Drought Stress Monitoring
9: Donald A. Wilhite, Mark D. Svoboda, and Michael J. Hayes: Drought
Monitoring in the United States: Status and Trends
10: J. Alfredo Rodrķguez-Pineda, Lorrain Giddings, H¢etor Gadsden, and
Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Droughts in North-Central Mexico
11: A. Anthony Chen, Trevor Falloon, and Michael Taylor: Agricultural Drought
Monitoring for the West Indies
12: Orivaldo Brunini, Pedro Leite Da Silva Dias, Alice M. Grimm, Eduardo
Delgado Assad, and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Phenomenon In
Latin America With Focus On Brazil
13: Z. Bochenek, K. Dabrowska-Zielinska, A.Ciolkosz, S. Drupka, and V.K.
Boken: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Poland
14: Fįtima Espķrito Santo, Rita Guerreiro, Vanda Cabrinha Pires, Luķs E. V.
Pessanha, and Isabel M. Gomes: Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Mainland
Portugal
15: A. D. Kleschenko, E. K. Zoidze, and V.K. Boken: Agricultural Drought
Monitoring for Russia
16: Eddy De Pauw: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for the Near East
17: Engida Mersha and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Droughts in Ethiopia
18: L. A. Ogallo, S. B. Otengi, P. Ambenje, W. Nyakwada , and F. Githui:
Agricultural Drought Monitoring: The Case of Kenya
19: J. Rowland, J. Verdin, A.. Adoum, and G. Senay: Drought Monitoring
Techniques for Famine Early Warning Systems in Africa
20: L. S. Unganai and T. Bandason: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for
Southern Africa
21: Marion Pratt, Macol Stewart Cerda, Mohammed Boulahya, and Kelly Sponberg:
Harnessing Radio and Internet Systems to Monitor and Mitigate Agricultural
Droughts in Rural African Communities
22: Jerry W. Stuth, Jay Angerer, Robert Kaitho, Abdi Jama, and Raphael
Marambii: Livestock Early Warning System for Africa Rangelands
23: A.S. Rao and V.K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Management
in India
24: Ahsan U. Ahmed, A. Iqbal, and A.M. Choudhury: Agricultural Droughts in
Bangladesh
25: Apisit Eiumnoh, Rajendra P. Shrestha, and Vijendra K. Boken: A Drought
Warning System for Thailand
26: Rizaldi Boer and A.R. Subbiah: Agricultural Droughts in Indonesia
27: Nguyen van Viet and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Droughts in Vietnam
28: Guoliang Tian and Vijendra K. Boken: Monitoring Agricultural Droughts in
China
29: K. A. Day, K. G. Rickert, and G. M. McKeon: Agricultural Drought
Monitoring for Australia
30: H. Ryong Byun, S. Young Hong, and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Drought
Monitoring for South Korea
31: M.V.K. Sivakumar: World Meteorological Organization and Agricultural
Droughts
32: Elijah Mukhala: Food and Agriculture Organization and Agricultural
Drought
33: Ashbindu Singh: International Activities Related to Dryland Degradation
Assessment and Drought Early Warning
34: Gennady V. Menzhulin, Sergey P. Savvateyev, Arthur P. Cracknell, and
Vijendra K. Boken: Climate Change, Global Warming, and Agricultural Droughts
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