Advances and gaps in the science and practice of impact‐based forecasting of droughts

A Shyrokaya, F Pappenberger… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in impact modeling and numerical weather forecasting have allowed accurate
drought monitoring and skilful forecasts that can drive decisions at the regional scale. State …

Uncovering the Dynamics of Multi‐Sector Impacts of Hydrological Extremes: A Methods Overview

MM de Brito, J Sodoge, A Fekete… - Earth's …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrological extremes, such as droughts and floods, can trigger a complex web of
compound and cascading impacts (CCI) due to interdependencies between coupled natural …

Towards interpreting machine learning models for predicting soil moisture droughts

F Huang, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, V Nourani… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Determination of the dominant factors which affect soil moisture (SM) predictions for drought
analysis is an essential step to assess the reliability of the prediction results. However …

Is snow drought a messenger for the upcoming severe drought period? A case study in the upper Mississippi river basin

S Yeşilköy, Ö Baydaroğlu, I Demir - Atmospheric research, 2024 - Elsevier
The exacerbation of floods and the extension of droughts, attributed to climate change and
human-induced factors, are posing a substantial risk to communities by causing water …

Homogenized gridded dataset for drought and hydrometeorological modeling for the continental United States

R Erhardt, CA Di Vittorio, SA Hepler, LEL Lowman… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
We present a novel data set for drought in the continental US (CONUS) built to enable
computationally efficient spatio-temporal statistical and probabilistic models of drought. We …

[HTML][HTML] Indicator-to-impact links to help improve agricultural drought preparedness in Thailand

M Tanguy, M Eastman, E Magee… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
Droughts in Thailand are becoming more severe due to climate change. Developing a
reliable drought monitoring and early warning system (DMEWS) is essential to strengthen a …

Proposing a new framework for analyzing the severity of meteorological drought

R Niaz, MMA Almazah, AY Al-Rezami, Z Ali… - Geocarto …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The quantitative description of meteorological drought from various geographical locations
and indicators is crucial for early drought warning to avoid its negative impacts. Therefore …

Subseasonal forecast skill of evaporative demand, soil moisture, and flash drought onset from two dynamic models over the contiguous United States

K Lesinger, D Tian, H Wang - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Flash droughts are rapid developing subseasonal climate extreme events that are
manifested as suddenly decreased soil moisture, driven by increased evaporative demand …

Applying Machine Learning for Threshold Selection in Drought Early Warning System

H Luo, J Bhardwaj, S Choy, Y Kuleshov - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the relationship between the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
(NDVI) and meteorological drought category to identify NDVI thresholds that correspond to …

Australia's Tinderbox Drought: An extreme natural event likely worsened by human-caused climate change

A Devanand, GM Falster, ZE Gillett, S Hobeichi… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
We examine the characteristics and causes of southeast Australia's Tinderbox Drought
(2017 to 2019) that preceded the Black Summer fire disaster. The Tinderbox Drought was …