With the increasing use of the term “flash drought” within the scientific community, Otkin et al. provide a general definition that identifies flash droughts based on their unusually rapid rate …
The terrestrial water and carbon cycles are coupled through plant regulation of stomatal closure. Both soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit—the amount of moisture in the air …
Advances in computing technology, new and ongoing restoration initiatives, concerns about climate change's effects, and the increasing interdisciplinarity of research have encouraged …
Y Chen, J Xia, S Liang, J Feng, JB Fisher, X Li… - Remote Sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key component of terrestrial ecosystems because it links the hydrological, energy, and carbon cycles. Several satellite-based ET models have been …
A AghaKouchak - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
Summary The 2011 East Africa drought caused dire situations across several countries and led to a widespread and costly famine in the region. Numerous dynamic and statistical …
Ashouri, H., K.-L. Hsu, S. Sorooshian, DK Braithwaite, KR Knapp, LD Cecil, BR Nelson, and OP Prat, 2015: PERSIANN-CDR: Daily precipitation climate data record from multisatellite …
R Gautam, NC Hsu, SC Tsay, KM Lau… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
We examine the distribution of aerosols and associated optical/radiative properties in the Gangetic-Himalayan region from simultaneous radiometric measurements over the Indo …
Datasets from meteorological reanalyses and retrievals from satellites are the available sources of large-scale information about solar radiation. However, both the reanalyses and …
This paper compares the daily solar irradiation available at surface estimated by the MERRA (Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications) re-analysis of the NASA …