Climate change and drought: From past to future

BI Cook, JS Mankin, KJ Anchukaitis - Current Climate Change Reports, 2018 - Springer
Drought is a complex and multivariate phenomenon influenced by diverse physical and
biological processes. Such complexity precludes simplistic explanations of cause and effect …

Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

U Büntgen, O Urban, PJ Krusic, M Rybníček… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Europe's recent summer droughts have had devastating ecological and economic
consequences, but the severity and cause of these extremes remain unclear. Here we …

How unusual is the 2022 European compound drought and heatwave event?

KP Tripathy, AK Mishra - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2022 Compound Drought and Heatwave (CDHW) caused widespread crop
damage, water shortages, and wildfires across Europe. Our study analyzed this event's …

Revisiting the recent European droughts from a long-term perspective

M Hanel, O Rakovec, Y Markonis, P Máca… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Early 21st-century droughts in Europe have been broadly regarded as exceptionally severe,
substantially affecting a wide range of socio-economic sectors. These extreme events were …

Quantifying the Central European droughts in 2018 and 2019 with GRACE Follow‐On

E Boergens, A Güntner, H Dobslaw… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The GRACE‐FO satellites launched in May 2018 are able to quantify the water mass deficit
in Central Europe during the two consecutive summer droughts of 2018 and 2019. Relative …

The rise of compound warm-season droughts in Europe

Y Markonis, R Kumar, M Hanel, O Rakovec, P Máca… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Drought is one of the main threats to food security and ecosystem productivity. During the
past decades, Europe has experienced a series of droughts that caused substantial …

The European 2015 drought from a climatological perspective

M Ionita, LM Tallaksen, DG Kingston… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
The summer drought of 2015 affected a large portion of continental Europe and was one of
the most severe droughts in the region since summer 2003. The summer of 2015 was …

Climate change alters low flows in Europe under global warming of 1.5, 2, and 3 C

A Marx, R Kumar, S Thober, O Rakovec… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
There is growing evidence that climate change will alter water availability in Europe. Here,
we investigate how hydrological low flows are affected under different levels of future global …

Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe

Z Fu, P Ciais, A Bastos, PC Stoy… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In summer 2018, Europe experienced a record drought, but it remains unknown how the
drought affected ecosystem carbon dynamics. Using observations from 34 eddy covariance …