The Causes, Predictability, and Historical Context of the 2017 U.S. Northern Great Plains Drought

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• Personal Author:
  Hoell, Andrew ; Perlwitz, Judith ; Eischeid, Jon K.
• Corporate Authors:
  Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Laboratories (U.S.) ; Earth System Research Laboratory (U.S.) ; National Integrated Drought Information System (U.S.) ; University of Colorado
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; PSL (Physical Sciences Laboratory) ; ESRL (Earth System Research Laboratory) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
• Description:
  This assessment of the 2017 Northern Great Plains drought is intended to aid policy makers and planners by better defining drought risk, assessing capabilities to predict drought, and quantifying how drought is changing in a warming world. A separate examination of the state, tribal, and federal response to the 2017 Northern Great Plains drought impacts appears in a companion assessment.
• Keywords:
  Capabilities Approach Causes Of Actions Droughts Evaluation Global Warming History Prediction Tribes Capabilities Approach Causes Of Actions Global Warming

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• Document Type:
  Technical Report
• Place as Subject:
  Great Plains
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e42cbd4bc0b2c95b12e0a4129a8bd09562e5ef77efaa42df6535b60c92941a09661276031807bc367eb6975efc29fc62211ac85e7e34f6c5c7f3ed824c37cc94
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/23003/noaa_23003_DS1.pdf
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