Temperature impacts on the water year 2014 drought in California

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4384-4393

  Shukla, Shraddhanand ^a   Safeeq, Mohammad ^b,c   Aghakouchak, Amir ^d   Guan, Kaiyu ^e   Funk, Chris ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c United States Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region 5   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

California drought; drought predictability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SNOW; SOIL MOISTURE;

CALIFORNIA; DROUGHT SEVERITY; HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGIES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; TEMPERATURE FORECASTS; TEMPERATURE IMPACT;

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNOFF; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84934444465     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063666     Document Type: Article

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