Drought propagation under global warming: Characteristics, approaches, processes, and controlling factors

X Zhang, Z Hao, VP Singh, Y Zhang, S Feng… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drought is a costly natural hazard with far-reaching impacts on agriculture, ecosystem, water
supply, and socio-economy. While propagating through the water cycle, drought evolves into …

The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future

KR van Daalen, M Romanello, J Rocklöv… - The Lancet Public …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Executive summary In the past few decades, major public health advances have happened
in Europe, with drastic decreases in premature mortality and a life expectancy increase of …

Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades

W Jiao, L Wang, WK Smith, Q Chang, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the growing interest in predicting global and regional trends in vegetation
productivity in response to a changing climate, changes in water constraint on vegetation …

Evidence of anthropogenic impacts on global drought frequency, duration, and intensity

F Chiang, O Mazdiyasni, A AghaKouchak - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Most climate change detection and attribution studies have focused on mean or extreme
temperature or precipitation, neglecting to explore long-term changes in drought …

[HTML][HTML] Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia

NJ Abram, BJ Henley, A Sen Gupta… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The 2019/20 Black Summer bushfire disaster in southeast Australia was
unprecedented: the extensive area of forest burnt, the radiative power of the fires, and the …

Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades

D Gampe, J Zscheischler, M Reichstein… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate extremes such as droughts and heatwaves have a large impact on terrestrial carbon
uptake by reducing gross primary production (GPP). While the evidence for increasing …

Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe

C Senf, A Buras, CS Zang, A Rammig… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Pulses of tree mortality caused by drought have been reported recently in forests around the
globe, but large-scale quantitative evidence is lacking for Europe. Analyzing high-resolution …

[HTML][HTML] Recent climate and hydrological changes in a mountain–basin system in Xinjiang, China

J Yao, Y Chen, X Guan, Y Zhao, J Chen, W Mao - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Xinjiang, China, is a representative arid region in Central Asia that is characterized by a
unique mountain–basin structure and fragile mountain–oasis–desert ecosystems. Climate …

Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

Y Tramblay, A Koutroulis, L Samaniego… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

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 …