Little change in global drought over the past 60 years

By Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood, M. Roderick. Nature, 2012

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Increased probability of compound long-duration dry and hot events in Europe during summer (1950–2013) (2019, neutral): “Furthermore, drought analysis based on meteorological variables has for the most part focussed on trends in drought indices such as the SPI (Gudmundsson and Seneviratne 2016), SPEI (Stagge et al 2017) and PDSI (Dai et al 2004, Sheffield et al 2012, Dai 2013, Trenberth et al 2014).”
High‐resolution modeling of human and climate impacts on global water resources (2016, background): “…(e.g., Asia, Africa), drought is closely associated with the presence of the El Ni~no-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that has driven a number of severe drought events [Trenberth et al., 1988; Seager, 2007; Sheffield and Wood, 2007; Sheffield et al., 2012; Dankers et al., 2014; Prudhomme et al., 2014].”
A Big Data Guide to Understanding Climate Change: The Case for Theory-Guided Data Science (2014, result): “Two recent studies published in Nature Climate Change 25 and Nature 26 came to opposing conclusions about whether there are noticeable changes in drought trends as a result of climate change.”
Impact of agricultural drought on main crop yields in the Republic of Moldova (2016, background): “…and the nuances of their long-term development and duration, progressive character of impacts, and diffuse spatial limits (Mavromatis, 2007, 2010; Sheffield et al., 2012; Dai, 2013; WMO, 2013; Beguería et al., 2014; Trenberth et al., 2014; Vicente-Serrano et al., 2014a, 2014b, 2014c; Wilhite et…”
Multi‐model ensemble prediction of terrestrial evapotranspiration across north China using Bayesian model averaging (2016, background): “The latent heat (λET) accompanying ET is particularly effective in cooling the land surface (Katul et al., 2012), thus critical in atmospheric processes and biogeochemical cycles (Teuling et al., 2010; Jung et al., 2010; Mu et al., 2011; Sheffield et al., 2012).”
Substantial increase in concurrent droughts and heatwaves in the United States (2015, result): “Past studies focused on changes in drought trends report conflicting results (9, 21, 25, 26).”
GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century (2019, background): “, 2016), and global to regional assessments of the recurrence of extreme hydrological droughts and their impact on ecosystems (Sheffield and Wood, 2007; Sheffield et al., 2012; Beguería et al., 2014; Griffin and Anchukaitis, 2014; Kusche et al., 2016; Dai and Zhao, 2016; Spinoni et al., 2017; Heim, ”
Changes in the severity of compound drought and hot extremes over global land areas (2018, result): “Previous studies on the changes of the spatial extent of drought over global land areas did not derive consistent results (Sheffield et al 2012, Dai 2013, Schrier et al 2013), while a significant increase of the spatial extent covered by the temperature extreme has been well established (Coumou and…”
Future heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities (2018, methodology): “Observed changes in droughts are method-dependent (Sheffield et al 2012, Dai 2013, Trenberth et al 2014) while changes in precipitation extremes are spatiallyheterogeneous (Donat et al 2013).”
Synthesis of global actual evapotranspiration from 1982 to 2019 (2020, background): “…for understanding the global hydrological cycle and water budgets (Oki and Kanae, 2006;Trenberth et al., 2007;Rodell et al., 2015), global drought (Sheffield et al., 2012;Naumann et al., 2018;Spinoni et al., 2019;Lu et al., 2019;Forootan et al., 2019), impacts of climate change (Waring and…”
Changes in concurrent monthly precipitation and temperature extremes (2013, methodology): “These data are interpolated to a 0.5◦ × 0.5◦ resolution and have been used in a variety of studies (Rawlins et al 2012, Sheffield et al 2012).”