Drought and Desertification (82 Papers)

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Shortlist	Attribution	Region	SubCategory	Year	# Citations	Cite As	DOI	Key Quote
	Temporal	United States	Drought	2007	128	(Groisman and Knight, 2007)	https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JCLI2013.1	During the past four decades, the mean duration of prolonged dry episodes (1 month or longer in the eastern United States and 2 months or longer in the southwestern United States) has significantly increased.
	Temporal	Africa	Drought	2014	349	(Masih et al., 2014)	https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-3635-2014	The study is based on the review and analysis of droughts occurred during 1900-2013 [in Africa]...Most of the studies based on instrumental records indicate that droughts have become more frequent, intense and widespread during the last 50 years.
	Temporal	Global	Desertification	2014	98	(Spinoni et al., 2014)	https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4124	We couple the information obtained from the Koppen-Geiger (KG) climate classification and the FAO aridity index (AI), providing an overview of the most evident global changes in climate regimes from 1951-1980 to 1981-2010...Both KG and AI show that the arid areas globally increased between 1951-1980 and 1981-2010...North-Eastern Brazil, Southern Argentina, the Sahel, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Mediterranean area, North-Eastern China and Sub-Himalayan India have been identified as areas with a significant increase of drylands extent.
	Temporal	Global	Drought	2018	208	(Pan et al., 2018)	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.05.018	Global vegetation trends during the period 1982-2013...A >60% increase in browning area was found during the study period, and the results consistently indicate that the expansion of browning trends has accelerated since 1994.
	Warming	Global	Drought	2019	25	(Peng et al., 2019)	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.04.0...	Since the late 1940s, drylands have increased at a rate of 512,180 km2/decade. The main feature is the sharp jump in drylands expansion in the 1980s, with the area of drylands increasing 3.1% (1.90 x 106km2) between 1980 and 2008 compared to 1948-1979...rapid warming since the 1980s has become an increasing important cause of the recent global drying trend.
	Anthropogenic	China	Drought	2020	18	(Li et al., 2020)	https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000836	The results show that summer hot drought events over northeastern China increased from 1961 to 2005...increased greenhouse gases emission forcing (GHG), and anthropogenic forcing (ANT) can largely reproduce the spatial and temporal features of the trends of summer hot drought events over northeastern China.
	Anthropogenic	China	Drought	2017	83	(Chen and Sun, 2017)	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.11.044	Drought occurrences across China increased consistently during 1951-2014, especially during the recent twenty years...external natural forcings were mainly responsible for the variability of droughts and anthropogenic influences for their increasing trends, suggesting that anthropogenic warming has increased hot drought occurrences, associated risks and impacts across China.
	Temporal	Global	Aridity	2022	9	(Ullah et al., 2022)	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.10599...	The present study assessed spatiotemporal changes in global aridity over the period 1901-2019, using five aridity indices...except for the AIunep index, the rest of the indices displayed an obvious and consistent increase in aridity over Northern Hemisphere...the increase (decrease) in temperature (soil moisture) has intensified the process of potential evapotranspiration (PET) and aridity across the globe.