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Australia

Australia. Bureau of Meteorology. 2001. Living with drought. Melbourne, AUS: Bureau of Meterology. www.bom.gov.au

Bruce, David, Phil Davies, and Rob Fitzpatrick. 1999? "Validating soil moisture estimates from polarimetric radar using GIS models : Further results from the 1993 AIRSAR mission to Australia". 14pp. Access via CSIRO web site at: www.csiro.au/ .

Bryceson, K. P., and D. H. White. 1994. Drought and decision support: Proceedings of a workshop. Climate and Agricultural Risk (CAR). Canberra, ACT: AFFA-BRS (Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry Australia. Bureau of Resource Sciences) Publications; Distributed by: Australian Government Publishing Service. 63pp.

Chipanshi, A. C., E. A. Ripley, and R. G. Lawford. 1999. Large-scale simulation of wheat yields in a semi-arid environment using a crop-growth model. Agricultural Systems 59, no. 1: 57-66.

Clark, Anthony, Tim Brinkley, Barrie Lamont, and Greg Laughlin. 2000. Exceptional circumstances: A Case study in the application of climate information to decision making. Presented at The 'Cli-Manage' Conference, Albury, New South Wales, Australia, 23-25 October 2000. Available at: www.affa.gov.au/corporate_docs/publications/pdf/rural_science/alburyfinal.pdf .

Donnelly, J. R., M. Freer, and A. D. Moore. 1998. Using the GrassGro decision support tool to evaluate some objective criteria for the Definition of Exceptional Drought. Agricultural Systems 57, no. 3 (July 1/98): 301-13.

Gibbs, W. M., and J. V. Maher. 1967. "Rainfall deciles as drought indicators." Bureau of Meteorology Bulletin no. 48 (Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)). Melbourne, AUS.

Heathcote, R. L. 1991. Managing the droughts? Perception of resource management in the face of the drought hazard in Australia. Vegetatio 91: 219-30.

Illius, A. W., J. F. Derry, and I. J. Gordon. 1998. Evaluation of strategies for tracking climatic variation in semi-arid grazing systems. Agricultural Systems 57, no. 3 (July 1/98): 381-98.

Keating, B. A., and H. Meinke. 1998. Assessing exceptional drought with a cropping systems simulator: a Case study for grain production in Northeast Australia. Agricultural Systems 57, no. 3 (July 1/98): 315-32.

Kothavala, Z. 1999. The duration and severity of drought over eastern Australia simulated by a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM with a transient increase in CO2. Environmental Modelling & Software with Environment Data News -- Special issue: ‘Modelling Global Climatic Change and its impacts.’ [Elsevier Science Ltd.] 14, no. 4: 243-52.

Laughlin, Greg, and Anthony Clark. 2000. Drought science and drought policy in Australia: A Risk management perspective. Presented at The Expert Group Meeting on Early Warning Systems for Drought Preparedness and Drought Management, Lisbon, Portugal, 5-7 September, 2000. Canberra, AUS: BRS.

Martin, Ray. 1994. Australia in crises -- The Drought. Victoria, Australia: Corella Publishing. 86pp.

McDonald, N. S. 1984. Palmer Index, N.S.W. Meteorological Districts 1913-1982. The Australian National University, Dept. of Geography, Occasional Paper No.10.

McTainsh, G. H., R. Burgess, and J. R. Pitblado. 1989. Aridity, drought and dust storms in Australia (1960-84). Journal of Arid Environments 16 : 11-22.

McVicar, Tim R., D. L. B. Jupp, J. Walker, and G. Tian. 1991. Remote sensing with physical models of soil moisture status to monitor land degradation and drought. IN Proceedings of the 12th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Singapore, 30 Oct.-05 Nov, 1991 pp.A121-A126.

Minasny, Budiman, and Alex B. McBratney. 2002. The Efficiency of various approaches to obtaining estimates of soil hydraulic properties. Geoderma 107: 55-70.

National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln. International Drought Mitigation Center). 2001. Australia's drought policy. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

O'Meagher, B., L. G. du-Pisani, and D. H. White. 1998. Evolution of drought policy and related science in Australia and South Africa. Agricultural Systems 57, no. 3 (July 1/98): 231-58.

Reynolds, R. G. Agricultural Systems, William D. Watson, D. J. Collins, and Australia. Dept. of Resources and Energy. 1983. Water resources aspects of drought in Australia, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, AUS.

Smith, D. I., M. F. Hutchinson, and R. J. McArthur. 1993. Australian climatic and agricultural drought: Payments and policy. Drought Network News 5, no. 3: 11-12.

Stafford-Smith D. M., and G. M. McKeon. 1998. Assessing the historical frequency of drought events on grazing properties in Australian rangelands. Agricultural Systems 57, no. 3 (July 1/98): 271-99.

Stephens, David J. 1998. Objective criteria for estimating the severity of drought in the wheat cropping areas of Australia. Agricultural Systems 57, no. 3 (July 1/98): 333-50.

Thompson, David, and Roy Powell. 1998. Exceptional circumstances provisions in Australia--is there too much emphasis on drought? Agricultural Systems 57, no. 3 (July 1/98): 469-88.

Timbal, B., S. Power, R. Colman, J. Viviand, and S. Lirola. 2002. Does soil moisture influence climate variability and predictability over Australia? Journal of Climate 15, no. 10: 1230-1240.

Walker, G. R., and L. Zhang. 2001. Plot-scale models and their application to recharge studies. IN Studies in catchment hydrology -- The Basics of recharge and discharge. CSIRO Publishing. [Publisher web site at: www.csiro.au/ ]

White, D. H. 1997. Risk assessment and management: Case study -- Drought and risk. IN Proceedings of the National Outlook Conference: Commodity Markets and Resource Management, 4-6 February, 1997, pp. 98-103. Canberra, ACT: Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics.

White, D. H. and V. M. Bordas. Editors. 1996. Indicators of drought exceptional circumstances ; Proceedings of a workshop held in Canberra on 1st October 1996, on drought exceptional circumstances. Canberra, ACT: Bureau of Resource Sciences (BRS), Commonwealth of Australia. 87pp.

White, D. H., S. Mark Howden, James J. Walcott, and Rob M. Cannon. 1998. A Framework for estimating the extent and severity of drought, based on a grazing system in South-eastern Australia. Agricultural Systems 57, no. 3 (July 1/98): 259-70.

White, D. H., and B. O'Meagher. 1995. Coping with exceptional droughts in Australia. Drought Network News 7, no. 2: 13-17.

Wilhite, Donald A. 1986. Drought policy in the U. S. and Australia: a Comparative analysis. Water Resources Bulletin 22: 425-38.

Zhang, L., W. R. Dawes, and G. R. Walker. 2001. The Response of mean annual evapotranspiration to vegetation changes at catchment scale. Water Resources Research 37: 701-8.

Zhang, L., G. R. Walker, and M. P. Fleming. 2001. Water balance methods for determination of deep drainage. IN Studies in catchment hydrology -- The Basics of recharge and discharge. CSIRO Publishing. [Publisher web site at: www.csiro.au

Europe

Briffa, K. R., P. D. Jones, and M. Hulme. 1994. Summer moisture variability across Europe, 1892-1991: An analysis based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index. International Journal of Climatology 14, no. 5: 475-506.

Byun, Hi-Ryong, and Donald A. Wilhite. 1999. Objective (Daily) quantification of drought severity and duration. Journal of Climate 12 (Sept): 2747-2756. Available at: weather.ou.edu/~spark/AMON/v1_n5/Byun/Byun.html

Frauenfeld, Oliver W., and R. E. Davis. 2002. Trends in the 1949-2000 Northern Hemisphere circumpolar vortex and climate change implications. Presented at Session 6.3 IN 13th Conference on Applied Meteorology, 13-16 May 2002. American Meteorological Society.

Iglesias, E., Garrido, A., and Gomez-Ramos, A. 2001. "An Economic Drought Management Index (EDMI) to evaluate Water Institution's performance under uncertainty and climate change." Web page. Available at www.eci.ox.ac.uk/sirch/chapter6.pdf

Jones, P. D., M. Hulme, K. R. Briffa, C. G. Jones, J. F. B. Mitchell, and J. M. Murphy. 1996. Summer moisture availability over Europe in the Hadley Centre general circulation model based on the Palmer drought severity index. International Journal of Climatology 16, no. 2: 155-72.

Kogan, F. N. 1997. Global drought watch from space. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 78, no. 4 (Apr): 621-36.

Lloyd-Hughes, Benjamin, and M. A. Saunders. 2002. European drought climatology and prediction using the Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI). Presented in Session 8.11 IN: 13th Conference on Applied Meteorology, 13-16 May 2002. American Meteorological Society.

Maracchi, G. 2000. Agricultural drought -- A practical approach to definitions, assessment and mitigation strategies. IN Drought and Drought Mitigation in Europe. J. V. and F. Somma Vogt, 63-75. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Meshcherskaya, A. V., and V. G. Blazhevich. 1997. The Drought and excessive moisture indices (DM) in a historical perspective in the principal grain-producing regions of the former Soviet Union. Journal of Climate [Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society] 10, no. 10 (Oct): 2670-2682.

Mogensen, V. O., C. R. Jensen, G. Mortensen, J. H. Thage, J. Koribidis, and A. Ahmed. 1996. Spectral reflectance index as an indicator of drought of field grown oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.). European Journal of Agronomy [Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science] 5, no. 1/2: 125-30.

Nagler, T., H. Rott, and G. Glendinning. 2000. Snowmelt runoff modelling by means of RADARSAT and ERS-SAR. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 26, no. 6 (Dec): 512-20.

Vogt, Jurgen V., and Francesca Somma. 2000. Drought and drought mitigation in Europe. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

World Meteorological Organization. Committee on Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM) Working Group. 1975. Droughts and agriculture; Report of the Committee on Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM) Working Group on the Assessment of Drought. WMO Technical Note No. 138; (WMO No. 392). Editors C. E. Hounam, J. J. Burgos, M. S. Kalik, W. C. Palmer, and J. Rodda. Geneva, Switzerland: WMO. 142pp.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO). 1999. "Early warning systems for drought and desertification: Role of national Meteorological and Hydrological Services". WMO Technical Note #906. Available at: www.wmo.ch/web/catalogue/New%20HTML/frame/engfil/906.html

Korea

Byun, Hi-Ryong and Y. H. Han. 1994. On the existence of seasonal drought in the Korean Peninsula. Journal of the Korean Meteorological Society 30: 457-467.

Byun, Hi-Ryong and D. A. Wilhite. 1999. Objective (Daily) quantification of drought severity and duration. Journal of Climate 12 (Sept): 2747-2756. Available at: weather.ou.edu/~spark/AMON/v1_n5/Byun/Byun.html .

Kim, S. M., and S. W. Park. 2001. Comparison of drought indices on major weather stations in Korea. ASAE Conference, 9-12 July 2000 in Milwaukee, ASAE Paper no.2017: 1-12.

Park, S. W., and K. K. Cho. 1983. Frequency analysis of dry-day sequence [Drought index, prediction of wide area agricultural drought, models]. Seoul-Taehakkyo-Nonghak-Yon ; College of Agriculture Bulletin. [Seoul-National-University] 8, no. 1 (Jun): 81-90.

Shim, S. B., M. S. Kim, and K. C. Shim. 1998. Flood inflow forecasting on multipurpose reservoir by neural network. Journal of the Korean Meteorological Society 31: 45-58. Referenced at: climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~kmkim/kms/ .

Africa

Andersen, H. S. 1997. Land surface temperature estimation based on NOAA AVHRR data during the HAPEX Sahel experiment. Journal of Hydrology [Amsterdam : Elsevier Science B.V.] 188/189, no. 1/4 (Feb): 788 814.

Bruwer, J. J. 1993. Drought policy in the Republic of South Africa. Chapter 11. IN Drought assessment, management, and planning: Theory and case studies. Editor D. A. Wilhite. Pp.199-214. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Casenave, A., and C. Valentin. 1992. A Runoff capability classification system based on surface features criteria in semi-arid areas of West Africa. Journal of Hydrology [Amsterdam : Elsevier Science B.V.] 130, no. 1/4 (Jan): 231-49.

Chanzy, A., T. J. Schmugge, J. C. Calvet, Y. Kerr, P. Van Oevelen, O. Grosjean, and J. R. Wang. 1997. Airborne microwave radiometry on a semi arid area during APEX Sahel. Journal of Hydrology [Amsterdam : Elsevier Science B.V.] 188/189, no. 1/4 (Feb): 285 309.

de-Jager, J. M., A. B. Potgieter, and W. J. van-den-Berg. 1998. Framework for forecasting the extent and severity of drought in maize in the Free State Province of South Africa. Agricultural Systems 57, no. 3 (July 1/98) : 351-65 .

du- Pisani, A. L. 1987. CERES-MAIZE model as a potential tool for drought assessment in South Africa. Water Science Advances [WASADV] 13, no. 3 (July): 159-164.

du-Pisani, L. G., H. J. Fouché, and J. C. Venter. 1998. Assessing rangeland drought in South Africa. Agricultural Systems 57, no. 3 (July 1/98): 367-380.

Glantz, Michael H., and Anthony L. Hall. 1987. Drought and hunger in Africa: denying famine a future. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Gommes, R., and F. Petrassi. 1994. "Rainfall variability and drought in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1960." FAO Agrometeorology series Working paper no.9. Rome, Italy: U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization.

Hambly, Helen, and Tobias Onweng Angura. 1996. Grassroots indicators for desertification: Experience and perspectives from eastern and southern Africa. Ottawa ON: International Development Research Centre.

Hendricksen, B. L., and J. W. Durkin. 1986. Growing period and drought early warning in Africa using satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 7: 1583-608.

Maselli, F., C. Conese, L. Petkov, and M. Gilabert. 1992. Use of NOAA-AVHRR NDVI data for environmental monitoring and crop forecasting in the Sahel: Preliminary results. International Journal of Remote Sensing 13: 2743-49.

Smith, D. Ingle. 1994. Drought and Drought Policy in the Republic of South Africa. Drought and decision support : Proceedings of a workshop.K. P. Bryceson, and D. H. White. Climate and Agricultural Risk (CAR). Canberra, ACT: AFFA-BRS (Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry Australia. Bureau of Resource Sciences) Publications; Distributed by: Australian Government Publishing Service. 63pp.

South African Development Community (SADC), B. S. Nyenzi, B. Garanganga, and S. P. Raboqha. 2000. "SADC Drought Monitoring Centre : Review of regional climate outlook forums : ‘Meteorological aspects for Southern Africa’ (pp.76-81); AND Proceedings of the First (Pre-SARCOF) Capacity Building Workshop on Seasonal Forecasting for the SADC Region. Pretoria, South Africa, 2 August - 10 September 1999. " Coping with the climate: a Way forward; Preparatory Report and Full Workshop Report, (South Africa) Drought Monitoring Centre, Harare, South Africa.

Vogel, Coleen, Mike Laing, Karl Monnik, and National Drought Mitigation Center. 2002. Impacts of drought in South Africa. IN Hazards and disasters. Drought (volume one.) Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge Publishers.

White, D. H., and B. O. Meagher. 1997. Drought policy and drought evaluation in South Africa . IN Indicators of drought exceptional circumstances ; Proceedings of a workshop held in Canberra on 1st October 1996, on drought exceptional circumstances. D. H. White, and V. M. Bordas, pp. 69-74. Canberra, ACT, AUS: Bureau of Resource Sciences (BRS), Commonwealth of Australia.

 
 
 
 
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