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DOI 10.1029/2022EF002809
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Titel (primär) Observational evidence for multivariate drought hazard amplifications across disparate climate regimes
Autor Ganguli, P.; Majhi, A.; Kumar, R. ORCID logo
Quelle Earth's Future
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
Department CHS
Band/Volume 10
Heft 9
Seite von e2022EF002809
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
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Keywords Hydrological Drought; Meteorological Drought; Multivariate Drought Hazard
Abstract Drought poses significant challenges to global water security in a warming world. A global-scale synthesis of the multivariate drought risk considering interdependencies between drought attributes across disparate climate regimes is still lacking. Leveraging precipitation and streamflow observations of 270 large catchments over the globe, we show that multivariate drought hazard amplifies significantly (at ∼65-76% of catchments) considering dependence between drought duration and severity. A signifying nature of this amplification (A) is the power-law scaling with dependence metric (Aτλ; λ = 5 − 12; where τ and λ are Kendall’s correlation and the scaling exponent), revealing current approaches considering drought attributes as independent or linearly dependent will severely underestimate likelihood of extreme droughts. Furthermore, we find disparate responses in the multivariate imprints of meteorological to hydrological droughts across climate types, with strengths varying from large to modest in Tropics and Mid-latitudes, which indicates weaker overlap between rain-deficit and streamflow droughts. In contrast, a strong overlap in multivariate hazards of rain-deficit and streamflow droughts is apparent across transitional Subtropics. Our study highlights the relevance of accounting for multivariate aspects of drought hazards to inform adaptation to water scarcity in a changing climate.
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Ganguli, P., Majhi, A., Kumar, R. (2022):
Observational evidence for multivariate drought hazard amplifications across disparate climate regimes
Earth Future 10 (9), e2022EF002809 10.1029/2022EF002809