Regional drought monitoring for managing water security in South Asia

Drought is the most complex climate-related disaster issue in South Asia and has affected 1.46 billion people with an economic loss of over 7 billion USD in the last 56 years. South Asia is challenged with water, food, and energy security due to growing populations, incomes, resource degradation, an...

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Autores principales: Amarnath, Giriraj, Ghosh, Surajit, Alahacoon, Niranga, Nakada, Toru, Rao, K.V., Sikka, Alok
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Publicado: Springer 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116410
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author Amarnath, Giriraj
Ghosh, Surajit
Alahacoon, Niranga
Nakada, Toru
Rao, K.V.
Sikka, Alok
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Amarnath, Giriraj
Ghosh, Surajit
Nakada, Toru
Rao, K.V.
Sikka, Alok
author_facet Amarnath, Giriraj
Ghosh, Surajit
Alahacoon, Niranga
Nakada, Toru
Rao, K.V.
Sikka, Alok
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description Drought is the most complex climate-related disaster issue in South Asia and has affected 1.46 billion people with an economic loss of over 7 billion USD in the last 56 years. South Asia is challenged with water, food, and energy security due to growing populations, incomes, resource degradation, and vulnerability to climate change. Monitoring of drought and associated agricultural production deficits using meteorological and agricultural indices is an essential component for drought preparedness. Remote sensing offers near real-time monitoring of drought conditions and IWMI’s has implemented South Asia Drought Monitoring System (SADMS) in 2014 as an online platform for drought early warning and support in drought declaration. This chapter explores the use of composite drought indices implemented in Google Earth Engine (GEE) and evaluates the crop yield variability during drought years. The study provides a rapid overview of drought-prone conditions that could enhance the present capabilities of early warning systems and enable science based policies for addressing water security in the agriculture sector and develop a drought response plan between water supply and demand, significantly increasing the vulnerability of regions to damaging impacts of drought events.
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spelling CGSpace1164102025-05-20T05:53:45Z Regional drought monitoring for managing water security in South Asia Amarnath, Giriraj Ghosh, Surajit Alahacoon, Niranga Nakada, Toru Rao, K.V. Sikka, Alok drought monitoring water security water management climate change agriculture crop production precipitation remote sensing case studies Drought is the most complex climate-related disaster issue in South Asia and has affected 1.46 billion people with an economic loss of over 7 billion USD in the last 56 years. South Asia is challenged with water, food, and energy security due to growing populations, incomes, resource degradation, and vulnerability to climate change. Monitoring of drought and associated agricultural production deficits using meteorological and agricultural indices is an essential component for drought preparedness. Remote sensing offers near real-time monitoring of drought conditions and IWMI’s has implemented South Asia Drought Monitoring System (SADMS) in 2014 as an online platform for drought early warning and support in drought declaration. This chapter explores the use of composite drought indices implemented in Google Earth Engine (GEE) and evaluates the crop yield variability during drought years. The study provides a rapid overview of drought-prone conditions that could enhance the present capabilities of early warning systems and enable science based policies for addressing water security in the agriculture sector and develop a drought response plan between water supply and demand, significantly increasing the vulnerability of regions to damaging impacts of drought events. 2021 2021-11-30T20:38:25Z 2021-11-30T20:38:25Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116410 en Limited Access Springer Amarnath, Giriraj; Ghosh, Surajit; Alahacoon, Niranga; Nakada, Toru; Rao, K. V.; Sikka, Alok. 2021. Regional drought monitoring for managing water security in South Asia. In Amaratunga, D.; Haigh, R.; Dias, N. (Eds.). Multi-hazard early warning and disaster risks. Selected papers presented at the International Symposium on Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Disaster Risk Reduction, Online Symposium, 14-16 December 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. pp.465-481. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73003-1_32]
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water security
water management
climate change
agriculture
crop production
precipitation
remote sensing
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Amarnath, Giriraj
Ghosh, Surajit
Alahacoon, Niranga
Nakada, Toru
Rao, K.V.
Sikka, Alok
Regional drought monitoring for managing water security in South Asia
title Regional drought monitoring for managing water security in South Asia
title_full Regional drought monitoring for managing water security in South Asia
title_fullStr Regional drought monitoring for managing water security in South Asia
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title_short Regional drought monitoring for managing water security in South Asia
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monitoring
water security
water management
climate change
agriculture
crop production
precipitation
remote sensing
case studies
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