Elmira K. Talipova

An Integrated Climate and Water Stress Index for Index-Based Insurance of Irrigated Agriculture: Development and Validation in the Shu-Talas Water Management Basin, Kazakhstan

In the context of increasing climate variability, the assessment of risks to irrigated agriculture requires a combined consideration of climatic and water management factors. The aim of this study is to develop an Integrated Climate and Water Stress Index (ICWSI) and to assess it...

Spatial Coherence and Non-Stationary Drought Dynamics in Water Management Basins of Northern and Central Kazakhstan

This study investigates the spatiotemporal variability, spatial consistency, and non-stationarity of meteorological and hydrological droughts in three major water management basins (WMBs) of northern and central Kazakhstan: Nura–Sarysu, Esil, and Tobyl–Torgai. Long-term instrumen...