[1] The Big Dry, a recent drought over southeast Australia, began around 1997 and continued until 2011. We show that between 2002–2010, instead of a localized drought, there was a continent-wide reduction in water storage, vegetation and rainfall, spanning the northwest to the southeast of Australia. Trends in water storage and vegetation were assessed using Gravity Recovery and Climate Experim...

One of the most potent of these drought survival traits is summer dormancy. Plants that give either nil or minimal growth after rainfall or irrigation in summer are expressing summer dormancy. There have been several field experiments conducted over the recent drought periods where grasses with the summer dormancy trait have had much better survival over extended and intensely dry periods than ...

Droughts are a recurrent and natural part of the Australian hydroclimate, with evidence of drought dating back thousands of years. However, our ability to monitor, attribute, forecast and manage drought is exposed as insufficient whenever a drought occurs. This paper summarises what is known about drought hazard, as opposed to the impacts of drought, in Australia and finds that, unlike other hy...

Drought is a frequent global phenomenon that has the most significant influence on agriculture. Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) by-product of photosynthesis can be used to monitor vegetation growth and agricultural drought. This study aims assess monthly drought using SIF data with 0.05-degree spatial resolution. The scaled index was calculated during crop-growing season (March-Oct...

Along with global climate change, the occurrence of extreme droughts in recent years has had a serious impact on the Amazon region. Current studies on the driving factors of the 2005 and 2010 Amazon droughts has focused on the influence of precipitation, whereas the impacts of temperature and radiation have received less attention. This study aims to explore the climate-driven factors of Amazon...

Several studies have assessed droughts and vegetation considering climatic factors, particularly El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) at different latitudes. However, there are knowledge gaps in the tropical Andes, a region with high spatiotemporal variability. This research analyzed relationships between droughts, vegetation, ENSO from 2001–2015. Meteorological drought was using Standardized Pr...

Global climate change and human activities have increased the frequency severity of droughts. This has become a critical factor affecting vegetation growth diversity, resulting in detrimental effects on agricultural production, ecosystem stability, socioeconomic development. Therefore, assessing response dynamics to drought can offer valuable insights into physiological mechanisms terrestrial e...

The recent global warming slowdown or hiatus after the big El Niño event in 1997/98 raises the questions of whether terrestrial hydrological cycle is being decelerated and how do the hydrological extremes respond to the hiatus. However, the rapidly developing drought events that are termed as "flash droughts" accompanied by extreme heat, low soil moisture and high evapotranspiration (ET), occur...