Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
4-2014
Abstract
Recent Meteorological Droughts in Southeast Asia Singapore, Southeast Asia’s small, developed, densely populated, equatorial island nation, experienced a 2-month dry spell (meteorological drought) at the beginning of 2014. Although February falls within the relatively dry phase of the north-east monsoon season, the near-zero total of rainfall recorded at the reference meteorological station at Changi Airport was 160 mm below the long-term monthly mean (NEA, 2014a), resulting in the driest month since 1869. By mid-March, small streams in both forested and urban catchments ran dry. Open water bodies including ponds and reservoirs shrank substantially in size. The long-range prospects for 2014 were not promising, as an El Niño event was predicted to develop later in the year (e.g. Ludescher et al., 2014). Unprecedented in the minds of many, the dry spell should nonetheless be viewed as an uncommon reminder of Singapore’s vulnerability to drought.
Discipline
Environmental Sciences
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Hydrological Processes
Volume
28
Issue
15
First Page
4543
Last Page
4548
ISSN
0885-6087
Identifier
10.1002/hyp.10212
Publisher
Wiley: 12 months
Citation
ZIEGLER, Alan D., TERRY, James P., OLIVER, Grahame J. H., FRIESS, Daniel A., CHUAH, Choong Joon, CHOW, Winston T. L., & WASSON, Robert J..(2014). Increasing Singapore's resilience to drought. Hydrological Processes, 28(15), 4543-4548.
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10212