Information systems in a changing climate: Early warnings and drought risk management

Weather and Climate Extremes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages 14-21

  Pulwarty, Roger S ^a   Sivakumar, Mannava V K ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drought monitoring; International Symposium on Integrated Drought Information Systems (ISIDIS); National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS); Prediction and indicators

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DROUGHT STRESS; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PALEOCLIMATE; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84902441873     PISSN: 22120947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2014.03.005     Document Type: Article

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