Causes and Predictability of the 2012 Great Plains Drought

P. Hoerling, Martin; Eischeid, Jon; Kumar, Arun; Ruby Leung, L.; Mariotti, Annarita; C. Mo, K.; D. Schubert, Siegfried; Seager, Richard

doi:10.1175/bams-d-13-00055.1

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Causes and Predictability of the 2012 Great Plains Drought

Published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society • Aug 19, 2013

Authors:

Martin P. Hoerling

Jon Eischeid

Arun Kumar

Abstract

Central Great Plains precipitation deficits during May–August 2012 were the most severe since at least 1895, eclipsing the Dust Bowl summers of 1934 and 1936. Drought developed suddenly in May, following near-normal precipitation during winter and early spring. Its proximate causes were a reduction ...

Subject

Predictability

Climatology

Precipitation

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