The U.S. has experienced significant meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological droughts since 2011. Drought can lead to short- and long-term impacts on water supplies, agriculture ...

hydrological, agricultural and socioeconomic. A meteorological drought happens when dry weather patterns dominate an area and can also quickly start and end, while a hydrological drought takes ...

The effects of hydrological drought on water levels in rivers and other waterways are especially crucial to monitor because they can affect regional agriculture, energy production, economic ...

Droughts are prolonged periods of dry weather when an area receives insufficient rainfall to sustain its usual water needs.

Precipitation variability and drought directly influence water resources and security, particularly impacting regions dominated by rainfed agriculture ... have been used effectively to simulate ...

meteorological, hydrological, agricultural, and socio-economic, and each index has its limitations. “The SPI is a well-known, globally accepted drought index which requires a parameter estimation.

It begins as a meteorological drought and progresses to an agricultural drought where the soil loses moisture. More severe droughts can escalate to hydrological droughts, characterized by reduced ...

The agency had several definitions of drought: meteorological, hydrological and agricultural, and it was quite possible for a State to have a meteorological drought — 90 per cent shortfall of ...

The prime minister said Jamaica was in the throes of a meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought with the western parishes of Hanover and Westmoreland particularly affected.