Background: Farmers apply several and often different farmer-specific strategies to cope with and adapt to the perceived trend of declining rainfall and crop productivity. A better understanding of the factors affecting farmers’ coping and adaptation strategies to counteract both trends is crucia...
Adimassu, Zenebe
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Kessler, A.
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[Factors affecting farmers’ coping and adaptation strategies to perceived trends of declining rainfall and crop productivity in the central Rift valley of Ethiopia]
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Factors affecting farmers’ coping and adaptation strategies to perceived trends of declining rainfall and crop productivity in the central Rift valley of Ethiopia
Groundwater is an important resource for multiple uses in South Africa. Hence, setting limits to its sustainable abstraction while assuring basic human needs is required. Due to prevalent data scarcity related to groundwater replenishment, which is the traditional basis for estimating groundwater...
Ebrahim, Girma Yimer
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Villholth, Karen G.
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[Estimating shallow groundwater availability in small catchments using streamflow recession and instream flow requirements of rivers in South Africa]
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Estimating shallow groundwater availability in small catchments using streamflow recession and instream flow requirements of rivers in South Africa
Indigenous knowledge of seasonal weather forecasting could be useful in decision making at village level to best exploit the seasonal distribution of rainfall in order to increase or stabilize crop yields. We examined existing indigenous knowledge by interviewing 192 households in six regions of ...
Okonya, J.
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Kroschel, J.
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[Indigenous knowledge of seasonal weather forecasting: a case study in six regions of Uganda]
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Indigenous knowledge of seasonal weather forecasting: a case study in six regions of Uganda
Amarnath, Giriraj
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Clark, James
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[Drought monitoring system helps strengthen resiliency to climate change]
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Drought monitoring system helps strengthen resiliency to climate change
This study focuses on Laos, a landlocked nation located in South-East Asia with sub-tropical climate and highly seasonal rainfall distribution. Laos is one of the world’s least developed countries, and currently witnesses an unprecedented level of development that is highly reliant on its natural...
Viossanges, Mathieu
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Pavelic, Paul
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Rebelo, Lisa-Maria
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Lacombe, Guillaume
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Sotoukee, Touleelor
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[Regional mapping of groundwater resources in data-scarce regions: the case of Laos]
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Regional mapping of groundwater resources in data-scarce regions: the case of Laos
A procedure to link a third-order Markov rainfall model to interpolated monthly mean climate surfaces is described. Such preliminary surfaces have been constructed for Africa and Latin America and these allow a user to generate daily weather data (rainfall, temperatures and solar radiation) that ...
Jones, Peter G.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Fitting a third-order markov rainfall model to interpolated climatic surfaces]
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Fitting a third-order markov rainfall model to interpolated climatic surfaces
Critical information on a flood-affected area is needed in a short time frame to initiate rapid response operations and develop long-term flood management strategies. This study combined rainfall trend analysis using Asian Precipitation—Highly Resolved Observational Data Integration towards Evalu...
Alahacoon, Niranga
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Matheswaran, Karthikeyan
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Pani, Peejush
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Amarnath, Giriraj
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[A decadal historical satellite data and rainfall trend analysis (2001–2016) for flood hazard mapping in Sri Lanka]
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A decadal historical satellite data and rainfall trend analysis (2001–2016) for flood hazard mapping in Sri Lanka
In the Sahel region, seasonal predictions are crucial to alleviate the impacts of climate variability on populations' livelihoods. Agricultural planning (e.g., decisions about sowing date, fertilizer application date, and choice of crop or cultivar) is based on empirical predictive indices whose ...
Lodoun T
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Sanon M
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Giannini, A.
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Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C.
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Somé, Léopold
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Rasolodimby JM
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[Seasonal forecasts in the Sahel region: the use of rainfall-based predictive variables]
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Seasonal forecasts in the Sahel region: the use of rainfall-based predictive variables
Quantifying rainfall at spatial and temporal scales in regions where meteorological stations are scarce is important for agriculture, natural resource management and land-atmosphere interactions science. We describe a new approach to reconstruct daily rainfall from rain gauge data and the normali...
Quiróz, R.
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Yarleque, C.
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Posadas, A.
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Mares, V.
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Immerzeel, W.W.
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[Improving daily rainfall estimation from NDVI using wavelet transform]
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Improving daily rainfall estimation from NDVI using wavelet transform
Impacts of climate change on water resources, especially groundwater, can no longer be hidden. These impacts are further exacerbated under the integrated influence of climate variability, climate change and anthropogenic activities. The degree of impact varies according to geographical location a...
Aslam, R.A.
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Shrestha, S.
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Pandey, Vishnu Prasad
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[Groundwater vulnerability to climate change: a review of the assessment methodology]
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Groundwater vulnerability to climate change: a review of the assessment methodology