The following list contains references to key publications from EDC-members on drought and drought related issues. Please refer to the section ‘Submit your References’ on how to submit your references to the EDC.
Akhtari R., Morid S., Mahdian M. H. & Smakhtin V. (2009) Assessment of areal interpolation methods for spatial of SPI and EDI drought indices. Int. J. of Climatol. 29, 135-145.
Akyuz, D.E., Bayazit, M. & Onoz, B. (2012) Markov Chain Models for Hydrological Drought Characteristics. J. Hydrometeor 13, 298–309. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-11-019.1.
Byun H. R., Lee S. J., Morid S., Chio K. S., Lee, S. M. & Kim D.,W. (2008) Study on the periodicities of droughts in Korea. Asia-Pacific J. of Atmosph. Sci. 44(4), 417-441.
Cuadrat, J.M. & Vicente-Serrano, S.M. (2006) Trends in drought intensity and variability in the middle Ebro valley (NE of the Iberian peninsula) during the second half of the twentieth century. Theor. Appl. Climatol. 88, 247-258.
Cuadrat, J.M., Saz, M.A. Vicente-Serrano, S.M. & González-Hidalgo, J.C. (2007) Water resources and precipitation trends in Aragon (Spain). Int. J. Water Resour. D. 23(1), 107-124.
Demuth, S. (2009) Learning to live with drought in Europe. A World of Science, Quarterly newsletter of the Natural Sciences Sector of UNESCO 7(3), 18-20.
Diodato, N. & Bellocchi, G. (2007) Modeling reference evapotranspiration over complex terrains from minimum climatological data. Water Resources Research 43, W05444, doi:10.1029/2006WR005405.
Diodato, N. & Bellocchi, G. (2008) Drought stress patterns in Italy using agro-climatic indicators. Climate Research 36, 53-63.
Diodato, N. & Bellocchi, G. (2008) Modelling NDVI responses to climate variability in Mediterranean terrestrial ecosystem. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 44, 147-159.
Diodato, N. & Bellocchi, G. (2011) Historical perspective of drought response in central-southern Italy. Climate Research 49, 189–200. doi:10.3354/cr01020.
Engeland, K., Hisdal, H. & Frigessi, A. (2004) Practical extreme value modelling of hydrological floods and droughts: a case study. Extremes 7, 5-30.
Farokhnia A., Morid S. & Byun H.R. (2010) Application of global SST and SLP data for drought forecasting on Tehran plain using data mining and ANFIS techniques. Theor. Appl. Climatol., DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0317-4.
Fleig, A.K., Tallaksen, L.M. & Hisdal, H. (2006) Drought indices suitable to study the linkages to large-scale climate drivers in regions with seasonal frost influence. In: Climate Variability and Change – Hydrological Impacts (ed. by S. Demuth, A. Gustard, E. Planos, F. Scatena & E. Servat), IAHS Publ. no. 308, 169-174.
Fleig, A.K., Tallaksen, L.M., Hisdal, H. & Demuth, S. (2006) A global evaluation of streamflow drought characteristics. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 10(4), 535-552.
Giuntoli, I., Renard, B., Vidal, J.-P. & Bard, A. (2013) Low flows in France and their relationship to large-scale climate indices. J. Hydrol. 482, 105-118. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.12.038.
González, J. & Valdés, J. B. (2003) Bivariate drought recurrence analysis using tree ring reconstructions. Journal of Hydro. Eng. ASCE 8, 247-258.
González, J. & Valdés, J. B. (2004) The mean frequency of recurrence of in-time-multidimensional events for drought analyses. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 4, 17-28.
González, J. & Valdés, J. B. (2006) New drought frequency index: Definition and comparative performance analysis. Water Resour. Res. 42, 1-13.
Gottschalk, L., Tallaksen, L.M. & Perzyna, G. (1997) Derivation of low flow distribution functions using recession curves. J. Hydrol. 194, 239-262.
Gustard, A. Blaskova, S., Brilly, M., Demuth, S., Dixon, J., Lanen, H. van, Llasat, C., Mkhandi, S., & Servat, E. eds. (1997) FRIEND’97-Regional Hydrology: Concepts and Models for Sustainable Water Resource Management. IAHS Publ. no. 246.
Gustard, A., van Lanen, H.A.J. & Tallaksen, L.M. (2004) Outlook. In: Hydrological Drought – Processes and Estimation Methods for Streamflow and Groundwater (ed. by L.M. Tallaksen & H.A.J. van Lanen), Developments in Water Science 48, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 485-498.
Heinrich, G.& Gobiet, A. (2011) The future of dry and wet spells in Europe: A comprehensive study based on the ENSEMBLES regional climate models. International Journal of Climatology. doi:10.1002/joc.2421.
Hisdal, H. (2000) Tests for changes in flow regimes. In: Detecting Trend and Other Changes in Hydrological Data (ed. by Robson and Kundzewicz), WMO – World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme, June 2000, Geneva.
Hisdal, H. (2002) Regional aspects of drought. PhD Thesis, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Unipub AS, Oslo, Norway.
Hisdal, H. and Tallaksen, L.M. (2000) Drought event definition, ARIDE Technical Report No. 6, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Hisdal, H. and Tallaksen, L.M. (2001) Regional Drought Characteristics. In: ARIDE – Assessment of the Regional Impact of Droughts in Europe (ed. by S. Demuth and K. Stahl), Final Report to the European Commission Contract ENV4-CT-97-0553, Freiburg, Germany, 56-68.
Hisdal, H. & Tallaksen, L.M. (2003) Estimation of regional meteorological and hydrological drought characteristics. Journal of Hydrology 281, 230-247.
Hisdal, H., Santos, M.J., Tallaksen, L.M., Veríssimo, R. and Rodrigues, R. (2001) Comparison of regional results for Denmark. In: ARIDE – Assessment of the Regional Impact of Droughts in Europe (ed. by S. Demuth and K. Stahl), Final Report to the European Commission Contract ENV4-CT-97-0553, Freiburg, Germany, 80-82.
Hisdal, H., Stahl, K., Tallaksen, L.M. & Demuth, S. (2001) Have droughts in Europe become more severe or frequent? International Journal of Climatology 21, 317-333.
Hisdal, H., Tallaksen, L.M., & Frigessi, A. (2002) Handling non-extreme events in extreme value modelling of streamflow droughts. In: FRIEND 2002 – Regional Hydrology: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice (ed. by H.A.J. van Lanen & S. Demuth), IAHS Publication no. 274, 281-288.
Hisdal, H., Tallaksen, L.M. Clausen, B. Peters, E. & Gustard, A. (2004) Hydrological Drought Characteristics. In: Hydrological Drought – Processes and Estimation Methods for Streamflow and Groundwater (ed. by L.M. Tallaksen & H.A.J. van Lanen), Developments in Water Sciences 48, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 139-198.
Hisdal, H., Holmqvist, E., Jónsdóttir, J.F., Jónsson, P., Kuusisto, E., Lindström, G., & Roald, L. A. (2006). Has streamflow changed in the Nordic countries? Climate Research (submitted).
Hisdal, H., Roald, L.A. and Beldring, S. (2006) Past and future changes in flood and drought in the Nordic countries. In: Climate Variability and Change – Hydrological Impacts (ed. by S. Demuth), IAHS Publ. no. 308, (in press).
Laaha, G. (2000) Evaluating the accuracy of low flow characteristics (in German). Mitteilungsblatt des Hydrographischen Dienstes in Österreich 80, 61-68.
Laaha, G. (2002) Modelling summer and winter droughts as a basis for estimating river low flows. In: Regional Hydrology: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice (ed. by H.A.J. van Lanen & S. Demuth), IAHS Publ. no. 274, 289-295.
Laaha, G. & Blöschl, G. (2003) Saisonality of specific low flows in Austria (in German). Mitteilungsblatt des Hydrographischen Dienstes in Österreich 82, 59-68.
Laaha, G. & Blöschl, G. (2005) Low flow estimates from short stream flow records – a comparison of methods. J. Hydrol. 306(1-4), 264-286.
Laaha, G. & Blöschl, G. (2006) A comparison of low flow regionalisation methods – catchment grouping. J. Hydrol. 323(1-4), 193-214.
Laaha, G. & Blöschl, G. (2006) Flächendeckende Bestimmung von Niederwasserkenngrößen in Österreich (Area-wide determination of low flow characteristics in Austria) (in German). In: Methoden der Hydrologischen Regionalisierung (ed. by D. Gutknecht), Wiener Mitteilungen 197, Vienna University of Technology, 93-108.
Laaha, G. & Blöschl, G. (2006) Low flow estimation in Austria. In: Climate Variability and Change – Hydrological Impacts (ed. by S. Demuth), IAHS Publ. 308, 117-121.
Laaha, G. & Blöschl, G. (2006) Seasonality indices for regionalising low flows. Hydrol. Processes 20, 3851-3878.
Laaha G. & Blöschl, G. (2007) A national low flow estimation procedure for Austria. Hydrol. Sci. J. 52(4), 625-644.
Laaha, G. & Blöschl, G. (2007) Map 5.8 – Specific low flow. In: Hydrological Atlas Austria, 3rd edition (ed. by Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft), Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna.
Laaha, G., Blöschl, G. (2007) Niederwasser – Bestimmungsmethoden (Low flow determination methods) (in German). In: Extreme Abflussereignisse: Dokumentation – Bedeutung – Bestimmungsmethoden (ed. by D. Gutknecht), Wiener Mitteilungen 206, Vienna University of Technology, 247 – 262.
Laaha, G. & Blöschl, G. (2007) River Low flows in Austria. In: Extreme Hydrological Events: New Concepts for Security (ed. by O.F. Vasiliev, P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder, E.J. Plate & M.V. Bolgov), Nato Science Series 78(4), 313-322.
Laaha, G. & Blöschl, G. (2008) Determination of low flow characteristic Q95 and reference discharge Qbez for rivers in Burgenland. Technical Report of the Institute of Applied Statistics, University BOKU Vienna (in German).
Laaha, G., Godina, R. Lorenz, P. & Blöschl, G.(2005) Map 5.5 – Low flow. In: Hydrological Atlas Austria (ed. by Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft), Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna.
Lanen, H.A.J. van & Demuth, S. eds. (2002) FRIEND2002 – Regional Hydrology: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice. IAHS Publ. no. 274.
Lanen, H.A.J. van & Peters, E. (2000) Definition, Effects and Assessment of Groundwater Droughts. In: Drought and Drought Mitigation in Europe (ed. by J. Vogt & F. Somma), Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol. 14, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 49-61.
Lanen, H.A.J. van & Peters, E. (2002) Temporal variability as an indicator for natural groundwater droughts in two climatically contrasting basins. In: FRIEND2002 – Regional Hydrology: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice (ed. by H.A.J. van Lanen & S. Demuth), IAHS Publ. no. 274, 101-108.
Lanen, H.A.J. van, Tallaksen, L.M., Kašpárek, L. & Querner, E.P. (1997) Hydrological drought analysis in the Hupsel basin using different physically-based models. In: FRIEND’97 – Regional Hydrology: Concepts and Models for Sustainable Water Resource Management (ed. by A. Gustard, S. Blaskova, M. Brilly, S. Demuth, J. Dixon, H. van Lanen, C. Llasat, S. Mkhandi & E. Servat), IAHS Publ. no. 246, 189-196.
Lanen, H.A.J. van, Fendeková, M., Kupczyk, E., Kasprzyk, A. & Pokojski, W. (2004) Flow Generating Processes. In: Hydrological Drought – Processes and Estimation Methods for Streamflow and Groundwater (ed. by L.M. Tallaksen & H.A.J. van Lanen), Developments in Water Science 48, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 53-96.
Lanen, H.A.J. van, Kašpárek, L., Novický, O., Querner, E.P., Fendeková, M. & Kupczyk, E. (2004) Human Influences. In: Hydrological Drought – Processes and Estimation Methods for Streamflow and Groundwater (ed. by L.M. Tallaksen & H.A.J. van Lanen), Developments in Water Science 48, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 347-410.
Manoli, E., Katsiardi, P. & Assimacopoulos, D. (2005) Putting the WFD into practice: Strategy formulation for IWRM under scarcity conditions. In: Proceedings of the ARID Cluster Conference Coping with Drought and Water Deficiency: from research to policy making, Limassol, Cyprus, 47-56.
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Moghaddasi M., Araghinejad, Sh. & Morid, S. (2009) Long-Term operation of irrigation dams considering variable demands: case study of Zayandeh-Rud reservoir, Iran. J. Irrig. Drain. Eng. ASCE. 136(5), 309-316.
Moghaddasi M., Morid, S., Araghinejad, Sh. & Agha Alikhani, M. (2009) Assessment of irrigation water allocation based on optimization and equitable water reduction approaches to reduce agricultural drought losses: the 1999 drought in the Aayandeh Rud Irrigation System (Iran). J. Irrig. Drain. ICID, DOI: 10.1002/ird.499.
Moghaddasi, M., Morid, S., Byun, H.R., Ghaemi, H. & Samani, L.M. (2006) Drought monitoring using deciles index, standardized precipitation index and effective drought index in Tehran Province, Iran. Iran Agri. Res. 23(1), 95-110.
Morid S., Smakhtin, V. & Bagherzadeh, K. (2007) Drought forecasting using artificial neural networks and time series of drought indices. Int. J. of Climatol. 27, 2103–2111.
Morid, S., Smakhtin, V. & Moghaddasi, M. (2005) Comparison of seven meteorological indices for drought monitoring in Iran. Int. J. of Climatol. 26, 971-985.
Peters, E. & Lanen, H.A.J. van (2003) Propagation of drought in groundwater in semi-arid and sub-humid climate regimes. In: Hydrology of the Mediterranean and Semi-Arid Regions (ed. by E. Servat, W. Najem, C. Leduc, & A. Shakeel), IAHS Publ. no. 278, 312-317.
Peters, E. & Lanen, H.A.J. van (2005) Separation of base flow from streamflow using groundwater levels – illustrated for the Pang catchment (UK). Hydrol. Process. 19, 921-936.
Peters, E., Torfs, P.J.J.F., Lanen, H.A.J. van & Bier, G. (2003) Propagation of drought through groundwater – a new approach using linear reservoir theory. Hydrol. Process. 17(15), 3023-3040.
Peters, E., Lanen, H.A.J. van, Torfs, P.J.J.F. & Bier, G. (2005) Drought in groundwater – drought distribution and performance criteria. J. Hydrol. 306, 302-317.
Peters, E., Bier, G., Lanen, H.A.J. van & Torfs, P.J.J.F. (2006) Propagation and spatial distribution of drought in a groundwater catchment. J. Hydrol. 321, 257-275.
Querner, E.P. & Lanen, H.A.J. van (2001) Impact assessment of drought mitigation measures in two adjacent Dutch basins using simulation modelling. J. Hydrol. 252, 51-64.
Querner, E.P., Tallaksen, L.M., Kašpárek, L. & Lanen, H.A.J. van (1997) Impact of land-use, climate change and groundwater abstraction on streamflow droughts basin using physically-based models. In: FRIEND’97 – Regional Hydrology: Concepts and Models for Sustainable Water Resource Management (ed. by A. Gustard, S. Blaskova, M. Brilly, S. Demuth, J. Dixon, H. van Lanen, C. Llasat, S. Mkhandi & E. Servat), IAHS Publ. no. 246, 171-179.
Shahabfar, A. (2011) Construction of an Agricultural Drought Monitoring System Using Remote Sensing Techniques: Finding, Evaluating and Refining New Approaches. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Shahabfar, A. & Eitzinger, J. (2011) Agricultural drought monitoring in semi-arid and arid areas using MODIS data. J. Agr. Sci. 149, 403-414. doi:10.1017/S0021859610001309.
Tallaksen, L.M. (1987) An evaluation of the Base Flow Index (BFI). Hydrological Report no.16, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Tallaksen, L.M. (1989) Analysis of time variability in recessions. In: FRIENDS in Hydrology (ed. by L. Roald, K. Nordseth, & K.A. Hassel), IAHS Publ. no. 187, 85-96.
Tallaksen, L.M. (1993) Modelling land use change effects on low flows. In: Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (FRIEND): Vol. I Hydrological Studies (ed. by A. Gustard), Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK, 56-68.
Tallaksen, L.M. (1995) A review of baseflow recession analysis. J. Hydrol. 165, 349-370.
Tallaksen, L.M. (2000) Streamflow drought frequency analysis. In: Drought and Drought Mitigation in Europe (ed. by J.V.Vogt & F.Somma), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 103-117.
Tallaksen, L.M. (2004) (Ed.) Northern European FRIEND & AMHY FRIEND Joint Low Flow Meeting Bratislava, Slovakia, May 2004: Summary Report (A contribution to the UNESCO IHP-VI program on Hydrological Extremes), available at http://www.geo.uio.no/edc/downloads/unesco.pdf.
Tallaksen, L.M. & Erichsen, B. (1994) Modelling low flow response to evapotranspiration. In: FRIEND: Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (ed by P. Seuna, A. Gustard, N.W. Arnell & G.A. Cole), IAHS Publ. no. 221, 95-102.
Tallaksen, L.M. & Hisdal, H. (1997) Regional analysis of extreme streamflow drought duration and deficit volume. In: FRIEND’97 – Regional Hydrology: Concepts and Models for Sustainable Water Resource Management (ed. by A. Gustard, S. Blazkova, M. Brilly, S. Demuth, J. Dixon, H. van Lanen, C. Llasat, S. Mkhandi & E. Servat), IAHS Publ. no. 246, 141-150.
Tallaksen, L.M. & Hisdal, H. (1999) Methods for Regional Classification of Streamflow Drought Series: The EOF Method and L-moments. ARIDE Technical Report No 2, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Tallaksen, L.M. & Lanen, H.A.J. van eds. (2004) Hydrological Drought – Processes and Estimation Methods for Streamflow and Groundwater. Developments in Water Science 48, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Tallaksen, L.M. & Lanen, H.A.J. van (2004) Introduction. In: Hydrological Drought – Processes and Estimation Methods for Streamflow and Groundwater (ed. by L.M. Tallaksen & H.A.J. van Lanen), Developments in Water Sciences 48, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 3-17.
Tallaksen, L.M., Madsen, H. & Clausen, B. (1997) On the definition and modelling of streamflow drought duration and deficit volume. Hydrol. Sci. J. 42(1), 15-33.
Tallaksen, L.M., Madsen, H. & Hisdal, H. (2004) Frequency Analysis. In: Hydrological Drought – Processes and Estimation Methods for Streamflow and Groundwater (ed. by L.M. Tallaksen & H.A.J. van Lanen), Developments in Water Sciences 48, Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 199-271.
Tallaksen, L.M., Demuth, S. & Lanen, H.A.J. van (2005) Low flow and drought studies – the Northern European (NE) FRIEND experience (keynote paper). In: Climatic and anthropogenic impacts on the variability of water resources (Proceedings of an International seminar held at Montpellier, November 2005). → Download pdf
Tallaksen, L.M., Hisdal, H. & Lanen, H.A.J. van (2006) Propagation of drought in a groundwater fed catchment, the Pang in UK. In: Climate Variability and Change – Hydrological Impacts (ed. by S. Demuth), IAHS Publ. no. 308, (in press).
Vicente-Serrano, S.M. & Cuadrat, J.M. (2007) North Atlantic oscillation control of droughts in north-east Spain: evaluation since 1600 A.D. Climatic Change 85, 357-379.
Vidal, J.-P. & Wade, S. D. (2009) A multimodel assessment of future climatological droughts in the United Kingdom. Int. J. Climatol. 29(14), 2056-2071. DOI: 10.1002/joc.1843
Vidal, J.-P, Martin, É., Franchistéguy, L., Habets, F., Soubeyroux, J.-M., Blanchard, M. & Baillon, M. (2010) Multilevel and multiscale drought reanalysis over France with the Safran-Isba-Modcou hydrometeorological suite. Hydrol. Earth System Sci. 14(3), 459-478. http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/14/459/2010/
Vidal, J.-P., Martin, É., Kitova, N., Najac, J. & Soubeyroux, J.-M. (2012) Evolution of spatio-temporal drought characteristics: validation, projections and effect of adaptation scenarios. Hydrol. Earth System Sci. 16(8), 2935-2955. http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/16/2935/2012/.
Væringstad, T., Hisdal, H. & Drageset, T.-A. (2004) Estimation of low flow indices at ungauged sites, a case study from Norway. XXIII Nordic Hydrological Conference, NHP-Report no. 48, 61-70.