Developing an Impact-Based Combined Drought Index for Monitoring Crop Yield Anomalies in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

ISBN-13: 9780367024512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 146 str.

Yared A. Bayissa

Opis

This thesis proposes an impact-based combined drought index (CDI) and a regression prediction model of crop yield anomalies for the Upper Blue Nile basin in Ethiopia. It shows to be effective in indicating historic drought events in the Upper Blue Nile, and could potentially be used in the future development of drought monitoring.

O autorze

Yared was born in Ambo town in Ethiopia in 1979. He studied his Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Irrigation Engineering at the former Arbaminch Water Technology Institute (AWTI) the later Arbaminch University where he graduated in 2002. He joined Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT), Ethiopia for Maters studies in 2007, and graduated with a MSc degree in Civil Engineering, with specialization in Hydraulic Engineering in 2009. Yared pursued a PhD in the "sandwich programme" between IHE Delft Institute for Water Education/TU-Delft, The Netherlands, and Ambo University, Ethiopia and graduated in 2018. Since 2016, he has been working in the National Drought Mitigation Centre (NDMC) under the school of Natural Resources of the University of Lincoln-Nebraska, USA, as a visiting scientist.