Spatiotemporal dynamics of global drought

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2254-2263

  Herrera Estrada, Julio E ^a   Satoh, Yusuke ^b   Sheffield, Justin ^a,c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

drought; dynamics; precipitation recycling; propagation; soil moisture; spatiotemporal

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FRAME OF REFERENCE; LA-GRANGIAN APPROACHES; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; PRECIPITATION RECYCLING; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

DROUGHT;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORECASTING METHOD; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MOISTURE FLUX; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85014520720     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071768     Document Type: Article

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