Open AccessWorld droughts in the new millennium from AVHRR‐based vegetation health indices
Author(s) -
Kogan Felix
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2002eo000382
Subject(s) - vegetation (pathology) , geography , physical geography , scale (ratio) , climatology , environmental science , cartography , medicine , geology , pathology
The new millennium has started with a series of large‐area droughts which have had grim consequences for the affected countries and regions. The enormous impacts of the 2000 and 2001 droughts were experienced on both physical and psychological levels, in part because no large‐scale drought occurred in 1999. In some regions, severe drought continued for two years in a row.