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What is DroughtPage 2The Disaster Handbook 1998 National EditionInstitute of Food and Agricultural SciencesUniversity of FloridaResearch by Donald A Wilhite director of the National DroughtMitigati. Salvaging Partially Uprooted TreesPage 2The Disaster Handbook 1998 National EditionInstitute of Food and Agricultural SciencesUniversity of Florida Tamp soil firmly around the roots. Anchor the tree Kevin E Trenberth. NCAR. Warmer air holds more moisture. 4% per °F. Global warming=. More heat .  . More drying. . More . evaporation. . More moisture. More rain. More drought. Drought. 1 2.4 Drought 2.4.1 G eneral Drought is a normal, recurrent feature of climate and characterized in terms of its spatial extension, intensity and duration. Conditions of drought appear when rainfall Chapter 17. Key words to understand:. Term. Meaning. Desertification. Drought. Sahara. Sahel. Population growth. Overgrazed. Over-cultivated. Famines. Migrate. Irrigation. Drought-resistant. Key words to . 1. . Kingtse. C. Mo. . CPC/NCEP/NWS. and . Dennis P. . Lettenmaier. . University of Washington. Mission. 2. CPC issues operational . Event 5. Rajasthan Drought:2002. Drought detected is the well documented Rajasthan drought.. Drought loomed in all the 32 districts of Rajasthan with a deficit rainfall of 53.4%. Approximately 40 million people and 50 million cattle were affected. The water table went down, wells and . Tlamacazapa. , Guerrero, Mexico. Robin Lynch. Hydrology. April 29,2010. Tlamacazapa. , Guerrero. Remote mountain village. Extreme poverty. Water scarcity. Reliant on wells contaminated with arsenic. Source: Google Maps. Towards proactive drought management approaches. February 2016, . Climate Services for improved Water Resources Management in vulnerable regions to climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean. DR. NATALIA LIMONES. . NCEP. North . American Land Data Assimilation (NLDAS. ):. Implications and Challenges . of. Extending . the Length of the . Climatology. by. Youlong Xia. 1. and Bala Narapusetty. 2. . Mike . Crimmins. Dept. of Soil, Water & Environmental Science. University of Arizona. Acknowledgements. Dan Ferguson. University of Arizona. CLIMAS/Institute of the Environment. Alison . Meadow. University of Arizona. Authors: Anne F. Van Loon et al (Nature, Feb 2016). Kimberly Duong. March 1, . 2016. Background. This paper describes:. human influences on drought. potential feedbacks between drought and society. Land use changes by humans alter hydrologic processes (evapotranspiration, infiltration, surface runoff, . and . Social Vulnerability. Dr. Peter Gleick. Pacific Institute, Oakland, California. California Temperature and Precipitation Anomalies (1895-2014) . (36-month periods). Source: Mann and Gleick, 2015, PNAS. NOAA/NCDC . disaster risk reduction in arab cities – . a tale of three cities - Aqaba, Djibouti & Beirut. Dr. Fadi hamdan. SYNOPSIS. Objectives. Background. Methodology. National Situation Analysis. Construction of Risk Within Cities. Overviewcommon Many counties in the United States have been designated as disaster areas in the past several years even in years of record crop productionThe Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to