Regional droughts and food security relationships in the Zambezi River Basin

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 36, Issue 14-15, 2011, Pages 977-983

  Tirivarombo, S ^a   Hughes, D A ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Data scarcity; Droughts; Food security; SPI

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA AVAILABILITY; DATA SCARCITY; DATA SETS; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; DROUGHT INDICES; DROUGHT MONITORING; EXTREME FLOOD; FOOD SECURITY; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; GLOBAL DATA; INFORMATION MODELING; RAINFALL DATA; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPI; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; ZAMBEZI RIVER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; FOOD SUPPLY; INFORMATION THEORY; RAIN; TIME SERIES; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP PRODUCTION; DROUGHT; FOOD SECURITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

ZAMBEZI BASIN;

EID: 80054089276     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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