{"id":220480,"date":"2026-05-26T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/can-ai-help-predict-and-manage-drought-uc-merced-researchers-explain-in-new-book\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:22:00","slug":"can-ai-help-predict-and-manage-drought-uc-merced-researchers-explain-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/can-ai-help-predict-and-manage-drought-uc-merced-researchers-explain-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Can AI Help Predict and Manage Drought? UC Merced Researchers Explain in New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucmerced.edu\/news\/2026\/can-ai-help-predict-and-manage-drought-uc-merced-researchers-explain-new-book\">Can AI Help Predict and Manage Drought? UC Merced Researchers Explain in New Book<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucmerced.edu\/news\/2026\/can-ai-help-predict-and-manage-drought-uc-merced-researchers-explain-new-book\">https:\/\/news.ucmerced.edu\/news\/2026\/can-ai-help-predict-and-manage-drought-uc-merced-researchers-explain-new-book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 14:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.ucmerced.edu\">news.ucmerced.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California experiences abnormal drying conditions after sufficient water years, prompting research into drought management.<\/li>\n<li>A UC Merced team contributed to the book &#8220;Global Drought and Sustainability,&#8221; examining AI&#8217;s role in drought modeling.<\/li>\n<li>The book, published by Elsevier, includes global research on drought&#8217;s connection to climate change and provides science-based solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Artificial intelligence and advanced drought forecasting are emerging as important tools for adapting to climate change&#8217;s effects.<\/li>\n<li>AI aids in combining satellite and climate data to provide more reliable drought information, aimed at enhancing human expertise.<\/li>\n<li>Shifts between heavy storms and severe drought influence public health, economy, agriculture, and water supplies.<\/li>\n<li>Recent severe snowmelt in California highlights the difficulty in drought forecasting without robust monitoring, although AI offers a scalable solution.<\/li>\n<li>Advances in modeling, data science, and sensors optimize agricultural practices and early drought detection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can AI Help Predict and Manage Drought? UC Merced Researchers Explain in New Book https:\/\/news.ucmerced.edu\/news\/2026\/can-ai-help-predict-and-manage-drought-uc-merced-researchers-explain-new-book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-220480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}