Drought Assessment in a Changing Climate: A Review of Climate Normals for Drought Indices
Joel Lisonbee,
John Nielsen-Gammon,
Blair Trewin
et al.
Abstract:Should drought be considered an extreme dry period based on the entire record of available data? Or, should drought be considered a low in precipitation variability within the context of a present, contemporary climate? The two most common reference periods are the full period of record (all observed data or as much as possible) and a 30-year reference climatology. However, climate non-stationarity may render the "all-data" ap-proach an inaccurate or obsolete comparison unless a trend is factored in. The aim o… Show more
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