The purpose of the special issue is to present recent advances and future challenges in drought and water scarcity monitoring, modelling, and prediction capabilities to improve risk management, adaptation strategies, and resilience to such adverse events.
This special issue welcomes, but is not limited to, the most innovative contributions to EGU 2019 session HS4.1.1/NH1.31, mainly addressing the following topics:
drought monitoring tools able to merge multiple information sources, including satellite-based data describing vegetation status and evapotranspiration;
land surface hydrologic models driven by remote-sensing data, reanalysis datasets, or climate forecasts to investigate current or future drought impacts on water resources;
influence of internal ocean-atmosphere variability on the occurrence and magnitude of drought phenomena;
role of climate models in investigating the spatio-temporal evolution of drought under climate change conditions;
statistical approaches for drought characterization coupled with uncertainty analysis.