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Storylines for Global Hydrologic Drought Within CMIP6
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Nels Bjarke, Ben Livneh, and Joseph Barsugli
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This NIDIS-funded study, led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder/Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), found that future hydrologic droughts are projected to become more severe and prolonged through the 21st century. This includes more frequent multi-year droughts. These storylines play out differently under different emissions scenarios, but seasonal shifts in drought timing were prominent in northern latitudes across all future scenarios.
Read the research article in Earth's Future, or learn more about this research.
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