State of the Science Fact Sheet: US Drought

Pulwarty, Roger

doi:10.25923/b8tw-0e47

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State of the Science Fact Sheet: US Drought

2024
By Pulwarty, Roger

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Alternative Title:

US Drought
Personal Author:

Pulwarty, Roger
Corporate Authors:

United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CSL (Chemical Sciences Laboratory) ; PSL (Physical Sciences Laboratory)
Description:

Droughts are among the most damaging of all natural hazards, with annual economic losses for the US in the billions of dollars extending through water resources, crop production, ecosystems, energy, transportation networks, wild-fire risks, and public health. Drought differs from most other hazards in the nature of its onset and duration, and in the accumulation of its impacts over months and years, and can span spatial scales from small watersheds to thousands of square miles.
Keywords:

Droughts NOAA Science Council
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25923/b8tw-0e47
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pdf
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Miscellaneous
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United States
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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CC0 Public Domain
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