Evaluating the relative importance of precipitation,  temperature and land-cover change in the hydrologic  response to extreme meteorological drought conditions  over the North American High Plains

Hein, Annette; Condon, Laura; Maxwell, Reed

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1931-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1931-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1931-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 4

Research article

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10 Apr 2019

Research article |

| 10 Apr 2019

Evaluating the relative importance of precipitation, temperature and land-cover change in the hydrologic response to extreme meteorological drought conditions over the North American High Plains

Annette Hein, Laura Condon, and Reed Maxwell

Data sets

Model data for Unravelling the impacts of precipitation, temperature and land cover changes for extreme drought over the North American High Plains A. Hein, R. Maxwell, and L. Condon https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6PJDLG

Short summary

Drought is a natural disaster that can result from changes to temperature, precipitation and/or vegetation. Here we apply a high-resolution computer model to explore the relative importance of each factor on the North American High Plains, one of the most important agricultural regions of the USA. Decreased precipitation caused larger changes in hydrologic variables (evapotranspiration, soil moisture, stream flow and water table levels) than increased temperature or disturbed vegetation did.