Characteristics, Predictability, and Risk of Mississippi and Ohio River Valley Drought

This project aimed to build a predictive understanding of drought and to quantify the risk of droughts with certain characteristics in the lower and upper Mississippi and Ohio River basins. This project team did this by investigating the physical characteristics, potential predictability of those characteristics, risk of those characteristics, and whether climate change alters those risks during three drought phases: onset, persistence and demise.

Read these two-page summaries for an overview of project accomplishments:

• Drought Variability and Trends in the Midwest United States
• Drought Onset, Persistence, and Recovery in the Midwest

To learn more, visit this project's research profile.