Contribution of temperature and precipitation anomalies to the California drought during 2012–2015

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 3184-3192

  Luo, Lifeng ^a   Apps, Deanna ^a,b   Arcand, Samuel ^a   Xu, Huating ^a,c   Pan, Ming ^d   Hoerling, Martin ^e  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District   (United States)

^c HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

drought; precipitation deficit; snowpack; temperature anomaly

Indexed keywords

SOIL MOISTURE;

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; SNOWPACK; SOIL MOISTURE DEFICITS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WET AND DRY SEASONS;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; ELEVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOWPACK; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WET SEASON;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85017466534     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072027     Document Type: Article

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