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HomeAnnual progress report of the European and global drought observatories, 2019
From monitoring to mitigation
Annual progress report of the European and global drought observatories, 2019
From monitoring to mitigation
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This report gives a comprehensive overview of the new functions in the European and Global Observatories (EDO and GDO) that were created in 2019. This report completes the user documentation of the systems and is to be used in conjunction with the previous reports presented since 2010. In 2019, we added layers describing means to mitigate droughts and integrated total terrestrial water storage information; we reviewed the system technically in order to comply with new system vulnerability tests and the use of shared libraries that vigour the europa.eu domain. We created various sectorial drought indices, both in testing as well as in a production phase. The sectorial indices tested, concern droughts in wetlands, water security during drought events for big cities, water intake limitations for industrial activities during droughts and a low flow index at world level in addition to the low flow index for Europe. We analysed methods to produce a new SPI index every ten days instead of once a month, thus allowing our indices to be more up to date during a lasting drought event. In brief, drought is becoming, in reaction to society’s hesitation to react on the Climate Heating drama, more and more a political tense topic, putting our work in the centre of attention together with the results of our colleagues of forest fire alerts. A copy of the system is developed using Open Source technology, making it ready to be exploited by regional meteorological agencies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, this in addition to the version already functioning in Ecuador. The project making this possible we baptized Mukau, the name in some local Kenyan languages of Melia volkensii, a plant adapted to dry climates and native to East Africa. This project, financed by DG DEVCO, will allow us to match up more with our counterparts in Africa thus enabling us to give more accurate information during events in exchange of sharing our technologies with our counterparts in the more drought stroked parts of the planet.
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- Corporate author(s): Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
- Personal author(s): Mazzeschi, Marco ; Cammalleri, Carmelo ; Masante, Dario ; Spinoni, Jonathan ; Jager, Alfred de ; Magni, Diego ; Arias Muñoz, Carolina ; Barbosa, P
- Themes: Natural disasters , Environmental research
- Subject: climatology , drought , environmental indicator , meteorology , natural disaster , natural hazard , open source software , research report
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| ISSN 1831-9424 | ISBN 978-92-76-11266-2 | DOI 10.2760/43976 | Catalogue number KJ-NA-30004-EN-N |
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