Drought assessment and fuzzy rule based drought forecasting

Abstract

Droughts are destructive climatic extreme events those may cause newlinesignificant damage to natural environments and human lives Drought newlinepreparedness can be developed to manage drought impacts The success of newlinethis depends amongst the others on how well the droughts are defined and newlinedrought characteristics quantified The basic requirement of mitigating the newlinedetrimental effects of droughts is the ability to forecast drought conditions in newlineadvance Accordingly the primary objective of this study is framed to newlinedevelop a methodology for drought assessment and forecasting newline newline