The gravity of water
Global dryland report
How drought plays out
Drought - early warning, early action
Mitigating droughts and floods in agriculture
Drought in numbers 2022: restoration for readiness and resilience
Assessing the global exposure of poor people to floods and droughts
Progress, challenges, and opportunities in the remote sensing of drought
System robustness analysis in support of flood and drought risk management
Major Step in Improving forecasts of weather extremes such as floods and droughts
Collection of global datasets for the study of floods, droughts and their interactions with human societies
Mapping, measuring & monitoring drought:
Hydrological drought indices
Palmer drought severity index
Standardized precipitation index
Global drought is the new normal
Mapping global patterns of drought risk
Evaluation of hydrological drought index
Handbook of drought indicators and indices
A faster more accurate way to monitor drought
Streamflow drought severity curve development
Accurate computation of streamflow drought index
The Evaporative Demand Dought Index (EDDI) Part 1 Part 2
Scientists unveil new satellite-based global drought severity index
Smultaneous drought and heatwave events are becomig more comon
Modelling & Forecasting drought:
Climate modes and drought
Understanding the historical probability of drought
Satellite data can improve drought insurance models
Traveling droughts bring new possibilities for prediction
Geographers develop system to track the dynamics of drought
Towards drought impact-based forcasting in a multi-hazard context
Vulnerability assessment models to drought: toward a conceptual framework
Multple stable states in hydrological models: an ecohydrological investigation
Demand for complementary financial and technological tools for managing drought risk
National water polices:
National drought policies wanted
When the water runs dry, the ideas flow
With drought intensifying worldwide, UN calls for integrated climate policies
WMO and UNCCD work on the foundations to build national drought policies
Drought management:
Integrated drought management
Investing in drought preparedness
Drought information to aid risk assessment
National drought management policy guideleines
Incomplete drought recovery may be the new normal
Ending drought emergencies - will the promises be met?
Regional:
USA:
Historic drought plagues the US
Warm oceans caused US dust bowl
What if California's drought continues?
Unraveling the mysteries of US megadroughts
Climate's role in US droughts is under scrutiny
Parched US West using up underground water
11 trillion gallons to replenish California drought
Drought led to massive 'dead zone' in Lake Erie
Sierra Nevada snowpack lowest in five centuries
Cost effective path to California drought recovery
Severe drought is causing the Western US to rise
Tree rings reveal nightmare droughts in the US West
US Southwest may face 'megadrought' within century
Improving te US Federal response to Western drought
Texas drought visible in new national groundwater maps
Looming economic catastrophe in the US due to drought
What California can learn from the millenium Australian drought
US sees 'alarming' increase in combined heatwaves and drought
Warming pushes Western US toward driest period in 1,000 years
California droughts caused mainly by changes in wind, not moisture
Prolonged California aridity linked to climate warming and Pacific SST
Chronic 2000-04 drought , worst in 800 years, may be the new normal
Natural causes, not human actvity, behind last summer's Plains drought
History of fire and drought shapes the ecology of California, past and future
Research to to advance US national drought monitoring and prediction capabilities
Leading scientists explain how climate change is worsening California's epic drought
Projected US drought extremes through the 21st Century using vapor pressue deficit
Future dryness in the southwest US and the hydrology of the early 21st century drought
Unprecedented 21st Century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North America megadrought 2020-2021
Mexico:
Mexican farmers despair over record drought
Long dryspell doomed Mexican city 1,000 years ago
2010 drought damaged Amazon as much as man-made deforestation
South America:
Drought brings Amazon tributary to lowest level in a century
Forest razing by ancient Maya worsened droughts, says study
Climate prediction tools show role of oceans in Amazon drought
13-year drought creates frightening 'new normal' in South America
Surface freshwater storage and dynamics in the Amazon basin during the 2005 exceptional drought
Australia:
Drought in Australia
Drought advice from Down Under
Australia's drought policy dilemma
'Flash droghts' can dry out soils in weeks
How droughts start in the Murray-Darling basin
Get used to the record-breaking heat: Australia
Summer no sweat for Aussies, but winter freeze fatal
Recent Australian droughts may be the worst in 800 years
Who's been affected by Australia's extreme heat? Everyone
Drying land and heating seas: why Nature in Australia's heating southwest is in gthe climate frontline
A spatial vulnerability analysis of urban populations during extreme heat events in Australian capital cities
Asia:
Hydrological drought amplifies wildfires in Borneo's humid tropics
Drought characteristics and management in Central Asia and Turkey
UN initiative strengthens drought monitoring and early warning in Asia-Pacific
UN develops innovative early warning tool for drought-prone Asia-Pacific regions
India:
South Asia water conflicts
Local level planning to cope with heat waves in India
India: hears what happens to your body in a heatwave
As devastating heat wave bears down, Indian city offers life-saving plan
China:
Decadal summer drought in China: the increasing influence of the Atlantic Multi-decadal oscillation
Africa and Middle East:
Confronting drought in African drylands
Drought vulnerability in the Arab Region
Briefing on the Horn of Africa Drought 2011
Drought and water crisis in Southern Africa
Ancient Egypt: study augments the drought theories
Ethiopia drought: how can we let this happen again?
How to tackle repetitive droughts in the Horn of Africa
Horn of Africa drying ever faster as the climate warms
The land bank: our financial sustainability relies on Nature
Drought in the Horn of Africa - preventing the next disaster
Ethiopia: Enhancing resilience to severe drought - what works?
Sowing the seeds of resilience in southern Africa's epic drought
Pollution in Northern Hemisphere helped cause 1980s African drought
Partnership agreement to strengthen the Sahel's most vulnerable communities
Understanding rainfall variabiility, drought and farmers' coping strategy in Nigeria
Drought risk management: the towards forecast-based preparedness action approach
Drought preparedness & response: a case of the Eastern Cape & Free State Provinces of South Africa
Europe:
World Wildlife Foundation warns of Danube drought
Drought in Eastern Mediterannean worst in 900 years
Scientists find evidence of Roman period megadrought
New drought atlas maps 2000 years of climate in Europe
EU: guidelines for preparation of the drought management plans
Drought in Central Europe - from dpought response to preparedness
Dynamics of meteorological and hydrological droughts in the Neman river basin
Human-caused climate change a major factor in more frequent Mediterranean droughts