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Flash Droughts in the Mountain West: Emerging Risks under a Warmer Climate

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    Flash droughts have been much in the news recently. The fl ash ; drought event in the Northern Great Plains in 2017 received ; especially widespread news coverage due to its severe impacts ; on agriculture and livestock—the economic losses of which led ; NOAA to categorize it as a billion-dollar weather and climate ; disaster (NOAA Climate.gov 2018). Another billion-dollar ; disaster that year resulted from wildfi res in the Mountain West, ; which we show here, were also driven by rapidly evolving dry ; conditions from anomalously wet antecedent conditions.
  • Journal Title:
    Mountain Views: Chronicles of the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains
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    Flash droughts have been much in the news recently. The fl ash

    drought event in the Northern Great Plains in 2017 received

    especially widespread news coverage due to its severe impacts

    on agriculture and livestock—the economic losses of which led

    NOAA to categorize it as a billion-dollar weather and climate

    disaster (NOAA Climate.gov 2018). Another billion-dollar

    disaster that year resulted from wildfi res in the Mountain West,

    which we show here, were also driven by rapidly evolving dry

    conditions from anomalously wet antecedent conditions.

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    Mountain Views: Chronicles of the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains, 13(1)
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    Journal Article
  • Place as Subject:
    Great Plains
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    urn:sha256:ef37806e69f244891f3b44ecfb386b0901ba523de2127d8e721742ffe1fafb64
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