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Why Do Different Drought Indices Show Distinct Future Drought Risk Outcomes in the U.S. Great Plains?

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    0470302 - ÚVGZ 2018 RIV US eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
    Feng, S. - Trnka, Miroslav - Hayes, M. - Zhang, Y.
    Why Do Different Drought Indices Show Distinct Future Drought Risk Outcomes in the U.S. Great Plains?
    Journal of Climate. Roč. 30, č. 1 (2017), s. 265-278. ISSN 0894-8755. E-ISSN 1520-0442
    Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) LO1415; GA ČR(CZ) GA16-16549S
    Institucionální podpora: RVO:67179843
    Klíčová slova: North America * Drought * Soil moisture * Climate models * Climate variability
    Obor OECD: Meteorology and atmospheric sciences
    Impakt faktor: 4.661, rok: 2017

    Vigorous discussions and disagreements about the future changes in drought intensity in the U.S. Great Plains have been taking place recently within the literature. These discussions have involved widely varying estimates based on drought indices and model-based projections of the future. To investigate and understand the causes for such a disparity between these previous estimates, the authors analyzed the soil moisture at the near-surface soil layer and the entire soil column, as well as the Palmer drought severity index, the Palmer Z index, and the standardized precipitation and evaporation index using the output from the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4), and 25 state-of-the-art climate models. These drought indices were computed using potential evapotranspiration estimated by the physically based Penman–Monteith method (PE_pm) and the empirically based Thornthwaite method (PE_th). The results showed that the short-term drought indices are similar to modeled surface soil moisture and show a small but consistent drying trend in the future. The long-term drought indices and the total column soil moisture, however, are consistent in projecting more intense future drought. When normalized, the drought indices with PE_th all show unprecedented future drying, while the drought indices with PE_pm show comparable dryness with the modeled soil moisture. Additionally, the drought indices with PE_pm are closely related to soil moisture during both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Overall, the drought indices with PE_pm, as well as the modeled total column soil moisture, suggest a widespread and very significant drying in the Great Plains toward the end of the century. The results suggest that the sharp contrasts about future drought risk in the Great Plains discussed in previous studies are caused by 1) comparing the projected changes in short-term droughts with that of the long-term droughts and/or 2) computing the atmospheric evaporative demand using an empirically based method (e.g., PE_th). The analysis here may be applied for drought projections in other regions across the globe.
    Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0267984

     
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