Integrated Drought Management, Volume 1

Professor V.P. Singh, PhD, DSc, is a University Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and Caroline and William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He earned his B.S., M.S., Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in engineering. He is a registered professional engineer, a registered professional hydrologist, and an honorary diplomat of ASCE-AAWRE. Dr. Singh is a distinguished member of ASCE, an Honorary Member of IWRA, a Distinguished Fellow of AGGS, and an Honorary Member of AWRA, and a fellow of EWRI-ASCE, IAH, ISAE, IWRS, and IASWC. He has published extensively in the areas of hydrology, irrigation engineering, hydraulics, groundwater, water quality, and water resources with more than 1370 journal articles; 32 textbooks; 75 edited reference books, including Handbook of Applied Hydrology and Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers; 115 book chapters; and 315 conference papers. He has received more than 100 national and international awards, including three honorary doctorates. He is a member of 12 international science/engineering academies. Dr. Singh has served as President of the American Institute of Hydrology (AIH);President of American Academy of Water Resources Engineers; President of International Association for Water, Environment, Energy, and Society; and Chair of Watershed Council of American Society of Civil Engineers. He has served as editor-in-chief of five journals and two book series and serves on editorial boards of more than 25 journals and three book series. His Google Scholar citations are 72,000; h-index of 119; and I10-index of 1025. Professor Deepak Jhajharia, PhD, is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Soil & Water Conservation Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering & Post Harvest Technology (Central Agricultural University), Ranipool, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. He is also acting as principal investigator of All India Coordinated Research Project on Plastic Engineering in Agriculture Structures and Environment Management (CAEPHT centre) funded by Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He graduated in Agricultural Engineering in 1998 from the College of Technology and Engineering (MPUAT), Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, and post-grad in Water Resources Engineering from Department of Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Prof. Jhaijharia earned his PhD from the Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He is the recipient of the prestigious Science Without Borders scholarship - Young Talent of CNPq (Brazil) as Research Collaborator at Department of Agronomy, Universidade Federal Rural De Pernambuco (UFRPE), Ministry of Education, Brazil. He has 22 years of academic experience and has published more than 85 papers in peer-reviewed journals, books, reports or extension bulletins. He has guided one PhD and 13 MTech theses in the field of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering along with many undergraduate theses in the field of Agricultural Engineering. Prof. Jhaijharia is co-editor of Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change and Applied Agricultural Practices for Mitigating Climate Change published by CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. He also conducted a 21-day summer school for scientists from ICAR and faculty members from different universities of India and one 90-day skill development training programme on Greenhouse Technology for school drop-outs and unemployed rural youth from six states of northeast India. Prof. Jhaijharia was awarded the CSIRO Land and Water Publication Award 2013, CSIRO Australia for global review paper published in Journal of Hydrology. He was also judged the best extension scientist (2017-2018) of the AICRP on PET in recognition of outstanding contribution for extension and popularization of Plasticulture Technologies in Sikkim. He is recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award (in 2016) by the College of Technology and Engineering Alumni Society, CTAE (MPUAT), Udaipur. He was elected as the Fellow of Indian Association of Hydrologists, Roorkee (in 2015) and Indian Water Resources Society, Roorkee (2019). He is also a life member of 14 different professional societies from India and abroad. His Google Scholar citations are 3042 and h-index of 18. Rasoul Mirabbasi, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering at Shahrekord University, Iran. He is also Head of the Water Resources Center of Shahrekord University. His research focuses mainly on Statistical and Environmental Hydrology and Climate Change. In particular, he is working on Modeling Natural Hazards including flood, drought, wind, and pollution toward a sustainable environment. Formerly, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Connecticut, USA. He has contributed to more than 150 publications in journals, books, or technical reports. Dr. Mirabbasi is the reviewer of about 30 Web of Science (ISI) Journals. His Google Scholar citations are 1916 and h-index of 22. Rohitashw Kumar, PhD, is a Professor in the College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, She-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. He is also holding additional charge of Associate Dean, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology and SKUAST- Kashmir, Srinagar (India). He is also Professor Water Chair (Sheikkul Alam Shiekh Nuruddin Water Chair), Ministry of Water Resources, Goverment of India, at National Institute of Technology, Srinagar (J&K). He earned his PhD in water resources engineering from NIT, Hamirpur and Master's of Engineering in irrigation water management engineering from MPUAT, Udaipur. He received the Special Research Award in 2017 and Student Incentive Award-2015 (PhD Research) from Soil Conservation Society of India, New Delhi. He has also received the first prize in India for best MTech thesis in Agricultural Engineering in 2001. He graduated from Maharana Pratap University of Agricultural and Technology, Udaipur, India, in Agricultural Engineering. He has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals, four practical manuals and 20 chapters in books. He has guided ten post-graduate students in soil and water engineering. He has handled more than ten research projects as a principal or co-principal investigator. Since 2011, he has been Principal Investigator of All India Coordinated Research Project on Plastic Engineering in Agriculture Structures and Environment Management (Srinagar Centre) funded by Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. His Google Scholar citations are 1148 and h-index of 18.

1. Understanding Drought: definitions, causes, assessments, forecasts, and management 2. Drought concepts, its characterization and indicators 3. Spatial Assessment of Meteorological and Agricultural Drought in Northern India 4. Assessment of meteorological drought characteristics in Brazil 5. Drought in Rio de Janeiro State, Southeast Brazil 6. The Mexican drought (2011): an insight into the 29-month drought in Aguascalientes 7. Investigating the relationship between the temporal distribution of precipitation and flow shortness volume over Lake Urmia Basin, Iran 8. Long-Term Drought Study in Algeria based on Meteorological Data 9. Severe droughts over India 10. Comparison of Bhalme-Mooley Drought Index with Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index: The Case of Okavango Delta, Botswana 11. Analysis of drought using a modified version of the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index 12. Evaluation of an Evapotranspiration Deficit-based Drought Index and its Impacts on Carbon Productivity in the Levant and Iraq 13. Analysis of meteorological drought using Joint Deficit Index based on downscaled precipitation data 14. Comparability Analyses of three Meteorological Drought Indices in Turkey 15. Trend identification in multi-scalar SPI over Uttarakhand, India 16. Temporal Trends of Aridity Index under Subtropical Highland Climate in Northeast India 17. Observed trends in annual aridity index in North-central Mexico 18. Hydrological Drought Index based on Streamflow Regime 19. Meteorological drought assessment in mountainous regions based on outputs of general circulation models 20. Climate Change Impact on Groundwater Droughts: Case study Groundwater-dependent Irrigation System 21. Impact of Climate Change on Occurrence and Severity of Drought 22. Climate Change effect on Crop Water Stress: case study of Syria 23. Biodiversity and Functions of Alluvial System Facing Severe Droughts Induced by Global Change 24. Climate change impacts on meteorological and hydrological droughts and their hazard propagations in China 25. Climate Change may raise Physiology Disorders on the Grape (Vitis Vinifera l) and Pecan (Carya Illinoinensis) in the Sonoran Desert, Mexico 26. Scientific evidence supporting the progression of climate change-induced drought from the history 27. Climate Change, Drought and Water Resources 28. Climate Change and Gender Drudgery in Rice Based Mono-cropping System of Meghalaya State in North Eastern Hill Region of India: Impact Evaluation