Flash Drought Dynamics and Impacts
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2022) | Viewed by 575
Special Issue Editors
Interests: flash drought; climatology; evapotranspiration; remote sensing; climate change
Interests: precipitation extremes; land-atmosphere interactions; compound events; cascading impacts
Interests: flash drought; evapotranspiration; remote sensing; agriculture; soil moisture; climatology; land surface models; prediction; data assimilation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Flash drought is a subseasonal phenomenon that can lead to severe impacts on agriculture and ecosystem dynamics due to a rapid depletion of soil moisture and increased evaporative stress on the environment. Rapid drought intensification can also contribute to cascading impacts that result in increased wildfire risk, heatwave development, depletion of water resources, and decreased food security. Given that flash drought develops on subseasonal to seasonal timescales, understanding the complex drivers of flash drought remains a significant challenge from local to global scales.
This Special Issue invites papers covering all aspects of flash drought, such as regional atmospheric and oceanic drivers of flash drought, methods and techniques to improve the detection, monitoring, and prediction of flash drought, and compound/cascading impacts associated with rapid drought development.
Dr. Jordan I. Christian
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Basara
Dr. Jason Otkin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil moisture
- evapotranspiration
- drought impact
- agriculture
- ecosystems
- wildfires
- climate extremes
- subseasonal to seasonal
- cascading and compound events
- vegetation
- climate change
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