Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3420709e&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 20, CiteID L20709
Physics
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Hydrology: Drought, Global Change: Impacts Of Global Change (1225), Global Change: Regional Climate Change, Global Change: Water Cycles (1836), Global Change: General Or Miscellaneous
Scientific paper
The contiguous United States has experienced both warming temperatures and a general increase in precipitation during the period 1950-2006. During that time drought has been a recurring phenomenon with a number of large droughts occurring, starting with the major drought in the 1950s in the Central United States and culminating with the persistent drought in the western portion of the country that started in the late 1990s. Here we examine the influence of the multi-decadal warming trend on drought coverage and the possibility that the general increase in regional and contiguous U.S. precipitation since about 1980 has masked the tendency for increasing drought driven largely by increasing temperature. Results indicate that without the increase in precipitation, severe to extreme drought would have affected as much as 50% more of the U.S. during some months in the most recent drought period.
Easterling David R.
Heim Richard R.
Lawrimore Jay H.
Wallis Trevor W. R.
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