A drought monitoring and forecasting system for sub-sahara african water resources and food security

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 861-882

  Sheffield, Justin ^a   Wood, Eric F ^a   Chaney, Nathaniel ^a   Guan, Kaiyu ^a   Sadri, Sara ^a   Yuan, Xing ^a   Olang, Luke ^b   Amani, Abou ^c   Ali, Abdou ^d   Demuth, Siegfried ^e   Ogallo, Laban ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Intergovernmental Authority on Development's Climate Prediction   (Kenya)

^c UNESCO International Hydrological Programme   (Kenya)

^d Regional de Formation et d'Application en Agrométéorologie   (Nigeria)

^e International Hydrological Programme UNESCO Division of Water Sciences   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FOOD SUPPLY; FORECASTING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

DROUGHT CONDITIONS; DROUGHT MONITORING; HYDROLOGICAL FORECAST; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE MODELING; MONITORING NETWORK; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

MONITORING;

EID: 84905174872     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00124.1     Document Type: Article

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