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Global snow drought hot spots and characteristics

Laurie S. Huning and View ORCID ProfileAmir AghaKouchak
PNAS August 18, 2020 117 (33) 19753-19759; first published August 3, 2020; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915921117
Laurie S. Huning
aDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697;
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Amir AghaKouchak
aDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697;
bDepartment of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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  1. Edited by Benjamin D. Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, and approved June 23, 2020 (received for review September 17, 2019)

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Given the importance of snow to global food, water, and energy security, characterizing snow deficits (snow droughts) in a changing climate has emerged as a critical knowledge gap. We identify snow drought hot spots and determine how drought duration and intensity vary globally. We show that eastern Russia, Europe, and the western United States experienced longer, more intense snow droughts in the second half of the period 1980 to 2018. During this period, droughts became less intense over the Hindu Kush, Himalayas, extratropical Andes, and Patagonia regions. Natural and human-driven factors (e.g., atmospheric circulation patterns, polar vortex movement, and Arctic warming) likely contribute to snow droughts. We urge the community to further investigate the complex physical drivers of snow drought.

Abstract

Snow plays a fundamental role in global water resources, climate, and biogeochemical processes; however, no global snow drought assessments currently exist. Changes in the duration and intensity of droughts can significantly impact ecosystems, food and water security, agriculture, hydropower, and the socioeconomics of a region. We characterize the duration and intensity of snow droughts (snow water equivalent deficits) worldwide and differences in their distributions over 1980 to 2018. We find that snow droughts became more prevalent, intensified, and lengthened across the western United States (WUS). Eastern Russia, Europe, and the WUS emerged as hot spots for snow droughts, experiencing ∼2, 16, and 28% longer snow drought durations, respectively, in the latter half of 1980 to 2018. In this second half of the record, these regions exhibited a higher probability (relative to the first half of the record) of having a snow drought exceed the average intensity from the first period by 3, 4, and 15%. The Hindu Kush and Central Asia, extratropical Andes, greater Himalayas, and Patagonia, however, experienced decreases (percent changes) in the average snow drought duration (−4, −7, −8, and −16%, respectively). Although we do not attempt to separate natural and human influences with a detailed attribution analysis, we discuss some relevant physical processes (e.g., Arctic amplification and polar vortex movement) that likely contribute to observed changes in snow drought characteristics. We also demonstrate how our framework can facilitate drought monitoring and assessment by examining two snow deficits that posed large socioeconomic challenges in the WUS (2014/2015) and Afghanistan (2017/2018).

  • snow
  • drought
  • climate
  • water resources
  • hydrology

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: lhuning{at}uci.edu.
  • Author contributions: L.S.H. and A.A. designed research; L.S.H. performed research; L.S.H. analyzed data; and L.S.H. and A.A. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no competing interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • Data deposition: Data supporting the conculsions in this study can be obtained from https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5055179. Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, version 2, data are available from https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/reanalysis/MERRA-2/data_access/. Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)/Terra monthly snow cover data are available from https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD10CM.006. The Snow Data Assimilation System and Famine Early Warning System Network snow water equivalent information used in SI Appendix over the contiguous United States and Afghanistan can be downloaded from https://doi.org/10.7265/N5TB14TC and https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/product/188, respectively.

  • This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1915921117/-/DCSupplemental.

Data Availability.

Data supporting the conclusions of this study can be obtained from https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5055179. MERRA-2 data are available from https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/reanalysis/MERRA-2/data_access/. MODIS/Terra monthly snow cover data are available from https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD10CM.006. The SNODAS and FEWS NET SWE information used in SI Appendix over CONUS and Afghanistan can be downloaded from https://doi.org/10.7265/N5TB14TC and https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/product/188, respectively.

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