Tools for Drought Mitigation in Mediterranean Regions (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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An integrated approach to drought mitigation in Mediterranean Regions.- Irrigation demand management to cope with drought and water scarcity.- At-site and regional drought identification by REDIM model.- Analysis of local and regional droughts in southern Portugal using the theory of runs and the Standardised Precipitation Index.- Local and regional droughts in Siliana catchment, Tunisia.- Drought identification and characterisation in Jordan.- Droughts in Sicily and comparison of identified droughts in Mediterranean regions.- Regionalisation and identification of droughts in Mediterranean countries of Europe.- Requisites for a Drought Watch System.- Irrigation scheduling simulation: the model ISAREG.- Coping with drought: deficit irrigation strategies for cereals and field horticultural crops in central Tunisia.- Feasibility of deficit irrigation with center-pivot to cope with limited water supplies in Alentejo, Portugal.- Irrigation scheduling simulation for citrus in Sicily to cope with water scarcity.- Irrigation management dynamics in the Jordan valley under drought conditions.- Simulation of supplemental irrigation strategies for wheat in Near East to cope with water scarcity.- Derivation of operation rules for an irrigation water supply system by multiple linear regression and neural networks.- Optimisation of reservoir management in the semi-arid countries: case of Lakhmess, Tunisia.- Decision support system for the evaluation of droughts and drought mitigation measures.- Long-term and short-term measures for coping with drought.- Appendix: Report and recommendations of the Expert Consultation and Workshop on Drought Mitigation for the Near East and the Mediterranean (Aleppo, May 27-31, 2001).- List of contributors.