ASSESSMENT OF DROUGHT CHALLENGES IN CENTRAL ASIA REGION Sample Clauses

ASSESSMENT OF DROUGHT CHALLENGES IN CENTRAL ASIA REGION. As mentioned above, the Central Asian region is vulnerable to drought due to its geographical location. Despite the magnitude and duration, drought is a regional phenomenon and even within the territory of one country its intensity and impact in each region are different, since each region has special climatic characteristics: amount, seasonal nature and form of precipitation, air temperature, wind and soil moisture regimes and other components of the hydrological cycle. There is no single universally accepted definition of drought in the Central Asian region. Therefore, various terminology is used in official documents of the countries. Definition of drought in accordance with the UN Convention6: "Drought" a natural phenomenon that occurs when the amount of precipitation is much lower than the normal recorded levels, which causes a serious disruption of the hydrological balance, adversely affecting land productivity. "Mitigating the effects of drought" means activities related to the prediction of drought and intended to reduce the vulnerability of society and natural systems to drought as it relates to combating desertification. The humidification conditions of any territory, in fact, are the ratio between the amount of precipitation and evaporation (or air temperature, since evaporation is a function of temperature). With excessive moisture, precipitation exceeds evaporation, and part of the precipitation is removed through underground and surface 6 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and / or Desertification, Especially in Africa "(Concluded In G. Paris 17.06.1994)
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