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In dealing with drought, a proactive approach requires a drought monitoring, a drought forecasting and an estimation of extreme dry event return times. For this purpose a useful tool is the drought bulletin where all the available information and analyses are collected and updated. In this chapter the main aspects of such approach are described and some sample applications for the Mediterranean area are shown. Results suggest that for a drought risk assessment there is not a unique analysis procedure; however, an ensemble of different kinds of analyses can provide useful information in preventing and minimizing the negative effects of drought events
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Bordi, I., Sutera, A. (2007). Drought Monitoring and Forecasting at Large Scale. In: Rossi, G., Vega, T., Bonaccorso, B. (eds) Methods and Tools for Drought Analysis and Management. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5924-7_1
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