Global drought trends and future projections
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología · +11 more institutions
Abstract
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 changes and future scenarios extremely difficult. This opinion piece includes a review of the recent scientific literature on the topic and analyses trends in meteorological droughts by using long-term precipitation records and different drought metrics to evaluate the role of global warming processes in trends of agricultural, hydrological and ecological drought severity over the last four decades, during which a sharp increase in atmospheric evaporative demand (AED) has been recorded. Meteorological droughts do not show any…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 30.00
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 128
Authors
8- SMSergio M. Vicente‐SerranoCorresponding
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
- DPDhais Peña‐Angulo
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire HydroSciences Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
- SBSantiago Beguerı́a
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Estación Experimental de Aula Dei
- FDFernando Domínguez‐Castro
Universidad de Zaragoza, Fundacion Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigacion y el Desarrollo
- MTMiquel Tomàs‐Burguera
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Météo-France
Topics & keywords
- Environmental science
- Climate change
- Global warming
- Natural hazard
- Anthropocene
- Agriculture
- Earth system science
- Scale (ratio)