Different drought types and the spatial variability in  their hazard, impact, and propagation characteristics

Tijdeman, Erik; Blauhut, Veit; Stoelzle, Michael; Menzel, Lucas; Stahl, Kerstin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2099-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2099-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2099-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 6

Research article

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23 Jun 2022

Research article |

| 23 Jun 2022

Different drought types and the spatial variability in their hazard, impact, and propagation characteristics

Erik Tijdeman, Veit Blauhut, Michael Stoelzle, Lucas Menzel, and Kerstin Stahl

Data sets

Data set: Different drought types and the spatial variability in their hazard, impact, and propagation characteristics (1.0) E. Tijdeman, V. Blauhut, M. Stoelzle, L. Menzel, and K. Stahl https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6449934

Daily Gridded Soil Moisture Simulations on a 1 Km Resolution Grid Covering Baden-Württemberg, version 1 E. Tijdeman and L. Menzel https://doi.org/10.11588/data/PRXZAS

Short summary

We identified different drought types with typical hazard and impact characteristics. The summer drought type with compounding heat was most impactful. Regional drought propagation of this drought type exhibited typical characteristics that can guide drought management. However, we also found a large spatial variability that caused distinct differences among propagating drought signals. Accordingly, local multivariate drought information was needed to explain the full range of drought impacts.