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Flash Droughts in the Mountain West: Emerging Risks under a Warmer Climate
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2019
Source: Mountain Views: Chronicles of the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains, 13(1)
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Alternative Title: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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Journal Title:Mountain Views: Chronicles of the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains
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Description: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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Source:Mountain Views: Chronicles of the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains, 13(1)
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