The evaporative demand drought index. Part I: Linking drought evolution to variations in evaporative demand

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1745-1761

  Hobbins, Michael T ^a,b   Wood, Andrew ^c   McEvoy, Daniel J ^d   Huntington, Justin L ^d   Morton, Charles ^d   Anderson, Martha ^e   Hain, Christopher ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm ocean structure phenomena; Atmosphere land interaction; Circulation dynamics; Drought; Evaporation; Evapotranspiration; Hydrologic cycle; Models and modeling; Physical meteorology and climatology; Reanalysis data

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY;

EID: 84976875379     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0121.1     Document Type: Article

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