Developing a flash drought indicator for the US Great Plains

Flash droughts refer to those droughts that intensify rapidly in spring and summer, coupled with a strong increase in summer extreme temperatures, such as those that occurred over Texas in 2011 and the Great Plains in 2012. Climate models failed to predict these flash droughts in 2011 and 2012 and a...

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Main Author: Yang, Ze, active 2013
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21828