Umfang:
xxvii, 273 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
Inhalt:
Over millennia, droughts could not be understood or defined but rather were associated with mystical connotations. To understand this natural hazards, we first needed to understand the laws of physics and then develop plausible explanations of inner workings of the hydrological cycle. Consequently, modeling and predicting droughts was out of the scope of mankind until the end of the last century. In recent studies, it is estimated that this natural hazard has caused billions of dollars in losses since 1900 and that droughts have affected 2.2 billion people worldwide between 1950 and 2014. For these reasons, droughts have been identified by the IPCC as the trigger of a web of impacts across many sectors leading to land degradation, migration and substantial socio-economic costs. This thesis summarizes a decade of research carried out at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research on the subject of drought monitoring, modeling, and forecasting, from local to continental scales. The overarching objectives of this study, ...
Anmerkung:
kumulative Habilitationsschrift
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Habilitationsschrift Universität Potsdam 2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Trockenheit
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Prognose
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Hochschulschrift
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