… past often resulted in divergent conclusions regarding climate change contributions to drought,
… The extent to which the recent California drought has been attributed to climate change, …

… We also describe how the occurrence of drought fits into the broader picture of global
change. The first part (Chapters 2–4) provides some background into the hazard of …

… How drought may change in the future are of great concern as global warming continues…
In Part I of this study, we examine the uncertainties in estimating recent drought changes. …

… , and allowing for better adaptation measures not only for medium- and long-term climate
change but also for extremes of the interannual climate variability, particularly droughts. …

… , social, and environmental change. We evaluate this … We find that climate and radiative
controls on future drought variability … decadal-scale droughts continue to occur in the future RCP8.…

… drought changes, and whether their future projections are comparable. Besides Dai (2013a),
who briefly compared historical drought changes … studies that examine drought changes in …

… future changes in land precipitation and thus drought will … drought changes associated with
GHG-induced global warming, with a focus on precipitation and evapotranspiration changes. …

… has accelerated the drying process in the recent past [27, 47], … droughts in the future with
respect to the current climate [48, 49]. Furthermore, increases in severity of drought in future …

… future changes, but drought management plans now need to begin to incorporate climate
change. … of defined drought outcomes. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. …

… in regional drought in the future based on climate model … drought metrics should be abandoned
as a climate change … comprehensive coupled land–atmosphere model outputs that take …