Posters

Causes of Drought by Region

Suraj Pandey, P K Joshi: Modeling drought prediction for agricultural growth in the Indo-gangetic plains of India under climate change scenario

Yaohui Li, Liang Zhang: Using a Land Surface Model Monitoring Drought in China

Charles Ichoku and Luke Ellison: Researching the link between biomass burning and drought across the Northern sub-Saharan African Savanna/Sahel belt 

Sumant Nigam, Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas, Bin Guan, Yongjing Zhao: Key role of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation in 20th Century Drought and Wet Periods over the Great Plains

Teresa Losada, R. Suárez-Moreno, E. Mohino, B. Rodríguez-Fonseca: Non stationary impacts of the tropical oceans of the West African Monsoon. Predictability Implications.

Case studies

Valeriy Khokhlov, Natalia Yermolenko, Andrey Ivanov: Spatiotemporal features of droughts in Ukraine under climate change

Sahana Bose: Assessing drought vulnerability in Gangetic Bengal of India: It’s Impact on agriculture and rural masses.

Lincoln Alves, Jose A. Marengo, Iracema Cavalcanti, Guillermo O. Obregón: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF EXTREME EVENTS IN LONG-TIME SERIES FROM AMAZON BASIN

Joris Timmermans, M. Gökmen, U. Eden, M. Abou Ali, Z. Vekerdy and Z. Su: Drought Monitoring by remotely sensed products over North-East Africa

Patricia Ann Jaranilla-Sanchez, Lei WANG, Katsunori TAMAGAWA, Izumi HASEGAWA, Hiroki YAMAMOTO and Toshio KOIKE: INTEGRATED MODELING OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS IN THE YOSHINO RIVER BASIN, JAPAN, FOR BASIN MANAGEMENT PLANNING

Nasab Alrawashdeh, Sawsan Attla Al Oran and  Jawad  Albakri: Effect of Climate Change on the Spatial Distribution of plant Biodiversity in Wadi  Shuieb Area/Jordan

Ricardo Trigo, Célia M. Gouveia, David Barriopedro: The intense 2007-2009 drought in the Fertile Crescent: Impacts and associated atmospheric circulation

Drought Information Service Providers

Gabriel Diaz, Ignacio Sánchez-Cohen; Rafael A. Guajardo-Panes; Ana L. Del Ángel-Pérez; Ariel Ruíz-Corral; Guillermo Medina García, Danie I.: MAPPING OF THE ARIDITY INDEX AND ITS POPULATION DISTRIBUTION IN MEXICO

Mark Svoboda, Michael J. Hayes and Brian Fuch: Drought as a focal point for climate services: NDMC activities toward a Global Drought Early Warning and Information System

Xiangming Xiao, Pavel Dorovskoy, Chandrashekhar Biradar and Eli Bridge: Global Geo-Referenced Field Photo Library

Ramona Magno, Pasqui Massimiliano, Guarnieri Francesca, Gaetani Marco: Use of the multiple time scales SPI index for monitoring and forecasting drought events over the Mediterranean Basin.

David Fereday, Emily Hamilton, Graham Weedon, Alberto Arribas, Adam Scaife, Jeff Knight, Anna Maidens, Richard Graham: Impact of soil moisture initialisation on extremes in the GloSea4 seasonal forecas system.

Michael Ek, Youlong Xia and Jesse Meng: Development and Application of NCEP Operational Land Data Assimilation Systems for Drought

Amir AghaKouchak: A Drought GeoServer for Real-Time Drought Monitoring and Analysis 

Carolina Neri and Víctor Magaña: Handling climate information and drought risk management: a proposal of Drought Early Warning System for México

Brian Fuchs: A New National Drought Risk Atlas for the United States from the National Drought Mitigation Center

Arlindo Meque and Babatunde Abiodun: Improving seasonal forecast of Drought over Southern Africa using Non-hydrostatic Global Model with Adaptive Grid 

User Needs and Capabilities

Boris Orlowsky and S. I. Seneviratne: Future droughts in Global Climate Models and adaptation strategies from regional present-day analogues