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Author(s) Giriraj Amarnath Surajit Ghosh Niranga Alahacoon

Afghanistan drought early warning decision support (AF-DEWS) tool

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International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
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This report summarizes the development of the Afghanistan Drought Early Warning Decision Support (AF-DEWS) Tool, a cloud-based online platform with near real-time information on drought conditions, to provide decision-makers with maps and data to enable further analysis. The report provides an overview of how the AF-DEWS Tool was developed and how it can be used to systematically monitor, detect and forecast drought conditions in Afghanistan.

The tool provides a wide range of indicators/indices to assess the severity of meteorological (rainfall anomaly, standardized precipitation index), hydrological (snow cover index, streamflow drought index, surface water supply index), and agricultural (vegetation health index, integrated drought severity index) droughts.

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Hazards Drought
Themes Early warning Data and information management
Country and region Afghanistan
Cover and source: International Water Management Institute
ISBN/ISSN/DOI
10.5337/2023.223 (DOI)
Number of pages
57 p.
Publication year
2023

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