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The mean North American and world climates have warmed significantly since the beginning of climatologically significant anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases in the 19th Century. It has been suggested that warming may increase the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 T. Muschinski , J. I. Katz

Drought is a complex environmental phenomenon that affects millions of people and communities all over the globe and is too elusive to be accurately predicted. This is mostly due to the scalability and variability of the web of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-21 A Akanbi

Short-term precipitation forecasting is essential for planning of human activities in multiple scales, ranging from individuals' planning, urban management to flood prevention. Yet the short-term atmospheric dynamics are highly nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Donlapark Ponnoprat

Drought has become a critical global threat with significant societal impact. Existing drought monitoring solutions primarily focus on assessing drought severity using quantitative measurements, overlooking the diverse societal impact of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lanyu Shang , Bozhang Chen , Shiwei Liu , Yang Zhang , Ruohan Zong , Anav Vora , Ximing Cai , Na Wei , Dong Wang

Natural disasters, such as tornadoes, floods, and wildfire pose risks to life and property, requiring the intervention of insurance corporations. One of the most visible consequences of changing climate is an increase in the intensity and…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-08-11 Thilini V. Mahanama , Abootaleb Shirvani

Drought has been perceived as a persistent threat globally and the complex mechanism of various factors contributing to its emergence makes it more troublesome to understand. Droughts and their severity trends have been a point of concern…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Ujjwal , Shikha C. Patel , Bansari K. Shah , Nicholas Ogbonna , Huthaifa I Ashqar

Quantification of physiological changes in plants can capture different drought mechanisms and assist in selection of tolerant varieties in a high throughput manner. In this context, an accurate 3D model of plant canopy provides a reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Siddharth Srivastava , Swati Bhugra , Brejesh Lall , Santanu Chaudhury

Drought poses a pervasive environmental challenge in Bangladesh, impacting agriculture, socio-economic stability, and food security due to its unique geographic and anthropogenic vulnerabilities. Traditional drought indices, such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tonmoy Paul , Mrittika Devi Mati , Md. Mahmudul Islam

Climate change and increasing droughts pose significant challenges to water resource management around the world. These problems lead to severe water shortages that threaten ecosystems, agriculture, and human communities. To advance the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Luigi Russo , Francesco Mauro , Alessandro Sebastianelli , Paolo Gamba , Silvia Liberata Ullo

In the context of autonomous driving, vehicles are inherently bound to encounter more extreme weather during which public safety must be ensured. As climate is quickly changing, the frequency of heavy snowstorms is expected to increase and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Clément Courcelle , Dominic Baril , François Pomerleau , Johann Laconte

The spatiotemporally continuous data of normalized difference snow index (NDSI) are key to understanding the mechanisms of snow occurrence and development as well as the patterns of snow distribution changes. However, the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Fan Ye , Qing Cheng , Weifeng Hao , Dayu Yu

Drought stress is a major threat to global crop productivity, making its early and precise detection essential for sustainable agricultural management. Traditional approaches, though useful, are often time-consuming and labor-intensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Aswini Kumar Patra , Lingaraj Sahoo

Flash droughts are increasingly occurring worldwide due to climate change, causing widespread socioeconomic and agricultural losses. However, timely and accurate flash drought forecasting remains challenging for operational forecast systems…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Qian Zhao , Xuwei Tan , Xueru Zhang , Pierre Gentine , Yanlan Liu

Efficiently selecting indexes is fundamental to database performance optimization, particularly for systems handling large-scale analytical workloads. While deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown promise in automating index selection…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Taiyi Wang , Eiko Yoneki

Drought threatens food and water security around the world, and this threat is likely to become more severe under climate change. High resolution predictive information can help farmers, water managers, and others to manage the effects of…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-29 John J. Nay , Emily Burchfield , Jonathan Gilligan

The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is a critical tool for monitoring drought conditions, typically relying on normalized accumulated precipitation. While longer historical records of precipitation yield more accurate parameter…

Applications · Statistics 2025-07-22 Touqeer Ahmad , Taha Hasan

For autonomous vehicles to viably replace human drivers they must contend with inclement weather. Falling rain and snow introduce noise in LiDAR returns resulting in both false positive and false negative object detections. In this article…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Akhil Kurup , Jeremy Bos

Water is essential for agricultural productivity. Assessing water shortages and reduced yield potential is a critical factor in decision-making for ensuring agricultural productivity and food security. Crop simulation models, which align…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Miro Miranda , Marcela Charfuelan , Matias Valdenegro Toro , Andreas Dengel

The inclusion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is growing rapidly in all application domains. Smart Farming supports devices connected, and with the support of Internet, cloud or edge computing infrastructure provide remote control of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Mary Adkisson , Jeffrey C Kimmel , Maanak Gupta , Mahmoud Abdelsalam

In this paper, the severity prediction of drought through the implementation of modern sensor networks is discussed. We describe how to design a drought prediction system using wireless sensor networks. This paper will describe a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Satish. G. Dappin , M. Vaidehi , G. Nithya Nair , T. R. Gopalakrsihnan Nair