Global drought trends and future projections

SM Vicente-Serrano… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Drought is one of the most difficult natural hazards to quantify and is divided into categories
(meteorological, agricultural, ecological and hydrological), which makes assessing recent …

Public health implications of drought in a climate change context: a critical review

C Salvador, R Nieto, SM Vicente-Serrano… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Extreme weather events are expected to increase due to climate change, which could pose
an additional burden of morbidity and mortality. In recent decades, drought severity has …

Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability

J Jiang, T Zhou - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
A severe agricultural drought swept Central Asia in 2021, causing mass die-offs of crops and
livestock. The anthropogenic contribution to declines in soil moisture in this region over …

Global projections of flash drought show increased risk in a warming climate

JI Christian, ER Martin, JB Basara, JC Furtado… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Flash drought, characterized by unusually rapid drying, can have substantial impact on
many socioeconomic sectors, particularly agriculture. However, potential changes to flash …

Substantial increase in abrupt shifts between drought and flood events in China based on observations and model simulations

Y Zhang, Q You, S Ullah, C Chen, L Shen… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Drought-flood abrupt alternation (DFAA) refers to the rapid transformation between droughts
and floods, posing serious threats to ecological security, food production, and human safety …

[HTML][HTML] Future changes in drought over Central Asia under CMIP6 forcing scenarios

L Hua, T Zhao, L Zhong - Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region: Central Asia. Study focus: The possible future changes in
meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought in Central Asia are analyzed based on …

Bacterial denitrification drives elevated N2O emissions in arid southern California drylands

AH Krichels, GD Jenerette, H Shulman, S Piper… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Soils are the largest source of atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O), a powerful greenhouse gas.
Dry soils rarely harbor anoxic conditions to favor denitrification, the predominant N2O …

Hydrological projections under CMIP5 and CMIP6: Sources and magnitudes of uncertainty

Y Wu, C Miao, L Slater, X Fan, Y Chai… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Projections of future hydrological conditions rely largely on global climate models, but model
performance varies greatly. In this study, we investigated projected changes in runoff (R) …

Cross-sectoral impacts of the 2018–2019 Central European drought and climate resilience in the German part of the Elbe River basin

T Conradt, H Engelhardt, C Menz… - Regional Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The 2018–2019 Central European drought was probably the most extreme in
Germany since the early sixteenth century. We assess the multiple consequences of the …

Three-dimensional-based global drought projection under global warming tendency

Y Ji, J Fu, Y Lu, B Liu - Atmospheric Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Global warming is anticipated to largely impact drought dynamics. Therefore, a
comprehensive projection of global drought under various future warming levels is critical for …