Drought in a human-modified world: reframing drought definitions, understanding, and analysis approaches

In the current human-modified world, or Anthropocene, the state of water stores and fluxes has become dependent on human as well as natural processes. Water deficits (or droughts) are the result of a complex interaction between meteorological anomalies, land surface processes, and human inflows, out...

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Main Authors: A. F. Van Loon, K. Stahl, G. Di Baldassarre, J. Clark, S. Rangecroft, N. Wanders, T. Gleeson, A. I. J. M. Van Dijk, L. M. Tallaksen, J. Hannaford, R. Uijlenhoet, A. J. Teuling, D. M. Hannah, J. Sheffield, M. Svoboda, B. Verbeiren, T. Wagener, H. A. J. Van Lanen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-09-01
Series:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/20/3631/2016/hess-20-3631-2016.pdf