Global drought trends and future projections

SM Vicente-Serrano… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Drought is one of the most difficult natural hazards to quantify and is divided into categories
(meteorological, agricultural, ecological and hydrological), which makes assessing recent …

NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms

K Cawse-Nicholson, PA Townsend, D Schimel… - Remote sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2017–2027 National Academies' Decadal Survey, Thriving on Our Changing
Planet, recommended Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) as a “Designated Targeted …

[HTML][HTML] ERA5-Land: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

J Muñoz-Sabater, E Dutra… - … system science data, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract Framed within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European
Commission, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is …

Climate and land management accelerate the Brazilian water cycle

VBP Chagas, PLB Chaffe, G Blöschl - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Increasing floods and droughts are raising concerns of an accelerating water cycle,
however, the relative contributions to streamflow changes from climate and land …

Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation

G Konapala, AK Mishra, Y Wada, ME Mann - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Both seasonal and annual mean precipitation and evaporation influence patterns of water
availability impacting society and ecosystems. Existing global climate studies rarely consider …

Widespread and complex drought effects on vegetation physiology inferred from space

W Li, J Pacheco-Labrador, M Migliavacca… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The response of vegetation physiology to drought at large spatial scales is poorly
understood due to a lack of direct observations. Here, we study vegetation drought …

Assessing the role of compound drought and heatwave events on unprecedented 2020 wildfires in the Pantanal

R Libonati, JL Geirinhas, PS Silva… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The year 2020 had the most catastrophic fire season over the last two decades in the
Pantanal, which led to outstanding environmental impacts. Indeed, much of the Pantanal …

Coupled estimation of 500 m and 8-day resolution global evapotranspiration and gross primary production in 2002–2017

Y Zhang, D Kong, R Gan, FHS Chiew… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Accurate quantification of terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) is essential to understand the
Earth's energy and water budgets under climate change. However, despite water and …

Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities

H West, N Quinn, M Horswell - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Drought is a common hydrometeorological phenomenon and a pervasive global hazard. As
our climate changes, it is likely that drought events will become more intense and frequent …

Land–atmospheric feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves: state of the science and current challenges

DG Miralles, P Gentine, SI Seneviratne… - Annals of the New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Droughts and heatwaves cause agricultural loss, forest mortality, and drinking water scarcity,
especially when they occur simultaneously as combined events. Their predicted increase in …