Yared A. Bayissa

TL;DR: The CHIRPS rainfall product can be used as an alternative source of information in developing the grid-based drought monitoring tools for the basin that could help in developing early warning systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated four widely used global high-resolution satellite rainfall products [the Climate Prediction Center's morphing technique (CMORPH) product, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) near real-time product (3B42RT), the TMPA method post-real-time research version product ( 3B42), and the PERSIANN product] with a spatial resolution of 0.25° and temporal resolution of 3 h through their streamflow simulations in the Soil and Water

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared six drought indices: Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), SPEI, Evapotranspiration deficiency index (ETDI), Soil Moisture Deficit Index (SMDI), Aggregate Drought Index (ADI), and Standardized Runoff-discharge Index (SRI), and evaluated their performance with respect to identifying historic drought events in the Upper Blue Nile (UBN) basin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the spatial and temporal variation of meteorological droughts in the Upper Blue Nile (UBN) basin in Ethiopia using long historical records (1953-2009) for 14 meteorological stations, and relatively short records (1975-2009), for 23 other stations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a robust drought monitoring tool that integrates multiple agrometeorological variables into a single DSA to mitigate the adverse impacts of a given DSA.