Anthropogenic shift towards higher risk of flash drought over China

Xing Yuan; Linying Wang; Peili Wu; Peng Ji; Justin Sheffield; Miao Zhang

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12692-7

Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Anthropogenic shift towards higher risk of flash drought over China

Xing Yuan,
Linying Wang,
Peili Wu,
Peng Ji,
Justin Sheffield,
Miao Zhang

Affiliations

Xing Yuan: School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Linying Wang: Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia (RCE-TEA), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peili Wu: Met Office Hadley Centre
Peng Ji: Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia (RCE-TEA), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Justin Sheffield: Geography and Environment, University of Southampton
Miao Zhang: Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia (RCE-TEA), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12692-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Flash droughts are widely discussed in the scientific community since the rapid onset of the 2012 drought in the USA. Here, the authors model the temporal frequency of potential flash drought events and the exposure risk over China for the next 80 years.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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