Droughts occur naturally, but climate change has generally accelerated the hydrological
processes to make them set in quicker and become more intense, with many consequences …

Drought prediction is of critical importance to early warning for drought managements. This
review provides a synthesis of drought prediction based on statistical, dynamical, and hybrid …

Increases in burned area across the western United States (US) since the mid‐1980s have
been widely documented and linked partially to climate factors, yet evaluations of trends in …

Abstract The China Meteorological Forcing Dataset (CMFD) is the first high spatial-temporal
resolution gridded near-surface meteorological dataset developed specifically for studies of …

The lack of consistent, accurate information on evapotranspiration (ET) and consumptive
use of water by irrigated agriculture is one of the most important data gaps for water …

Increased forest fire activity across the western continental United States (US) in recent
decades has likely been enabled by a number of factors, including the legacy of fire …

Prior work shows western US forest wildfire activity increased abruptly in the mid-1980s.
Large forest wildfires and areas burned in them have continued to increase over recent …

Western United States wildfire increases have been generally attributed to warming
temperatures, either through effects on winter snowpack or summer evaporation. However …

The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological
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A suite of climate data sets and multiple representations of atmospheric moisture demand
are used to calculate many estimates of the self‐calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index, a …