PPT-DROUGHT AS A GEOHAZARD Lecture Outline

The Hard Truth about South Texas Climate Drought Definition In the Eye of the Beholder 3 What Makes Drought Unique as a Geohazard 4 Specific Drought Risks 5 Coping with Drought 1 The Hard Truth about South Texas Climate. Point of departure The setting Major conclusions of WGII AR4 Major conclusions of Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation Major conclusions of WGI AR5 2 Foundations for decisionma 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 . TWCA Mid Year Conference. June 16, 2011. Bob Rose, Meteorologist LCRA. Rainfall Since October 1st. Rainfall Since October 1st. Rainfall Since Oct. 1. Midland 0.16. Marfa 0.25. Fort Stockton 0.08. El Paso 0.45. 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. 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. PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON WATER AND SANITATION. 01 MARCH 2017. 1. 1. PRESENTATION LAYOUT. Purpose. Background. The approach to address drought conditions. Key intervention measures by national government. Katie Born. Goal. Map the drought severity in the Austin-Lake Travis Lakes Subbasin against the elevation of the Lake Travis reservoir . Lake Travis. Reservoir created in 1942 with the construction of Mansfield Dam by the Lower Colorado . 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 . Mitigation Plan. DESA and UN Partners (ECA. , FAO, WMO, UNISDR, UNEP, UNCCD, UNDP). The Capacity Building Program on Water Scarcity and Drought Preparedness and Mitigation Plan for Jordan. Outline. Jordan Water Scarcity and Drought Challenges Overview. Goal. Map the drought severity in the Austin-Lake Travis Lakes Subbasin against the elevation of the Lake Travis reservoir . Lake Travis. Reservoir created in 1942 with the construction of Mansfield Dam by the Lower Colorado . CEOS Support to the . Geohazard. Supersites. The CEOS Supersite Coordination Team:. Simona. . Zoffoli. , . ASI. Steven . Hosford. , . CNES. Christine . Giguère. , CSA. Jörn Hoffmann, DLR (Chair). NDRPPriority ActionsSupportingLong-Term Drought Resilience2019DisclaimerThis document is not a regulation itself nor does it change or substitute for any provision within regulationsThus it does not i Prepared by. . Prof. Dr. Hussein K. Zair. Major agricultural industries have few technological defenses against crop loss due to abiotic stresses, particularly drought stress. Drought stress is a complex stress since it often coincides with high light stress and high temperature stress to plant canopies..