Drought is a costly natural hazard with far-reaching impacts on agriculture, ecosystem, water
supply, and socio-economy. While propagating through the water cycle, drought evolves into …

Drought is a complex natural hazard that impacts ecosystems and society in many ways.
Many of these impacts are associated with hydrological drought (drought in rivers, lakes …

Increasing floods and droughts are raising concerns of an accelerating water cycle,
however, the relative contributions to streamflow changes from climate and land …

Since 2010 an uninterrupted sequence of dry years, with annual rainfall deficits ranging from
25 to 45%, has prevailed in central Chile (western South America, 30–38° S). Although …

California is currently in the midst of a record-setting drought. The drought began in 2012
and now includes the lowest calendar-year and 12-mo precipitation, the highest annual …

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 …

Impacts of a drought are generally dependent on the severity of the hydrological drought
event, which can be expressed by streamflow drought duration or deficit volume. For …

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 …

Hydrological drought usually lags behind meteorological drought. Obtaining the propagation
threshold (PT) from meteorological drought to hydrological drought is important for providing …

Meteorological drought is a precursor of hydrological drought. Understanding the
propagation from meteorological drought to hydrological drought is important for the early …