Flash Drought indicators at catchment scale for CONUS

Gesualdo, Gabriela; Hadjimichael, Antonia

doi:10.57931/2568767

Title: Flash Drought indicators at catchment scale for CONUS

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Flash droughts are defined by the rapid onset and intensification of drought conditions - a feature common across various proposed indicators. However, the absence of a standardized definition and detection method makes them particularly difficult to anticipate and manage. This dataset includes flash drought classifications based on six different methods across 222 catchments (4-digit Hydrologic Units, HUC4) in the Contiguous United States (CONUS) from 1983 to 2023. It also includes the pairwise agreement between indicators and the event-level multi-indicator agreement. For a detailed description of each file, refer to README_MSDlive.pdf

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Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University

Publication Date:: Tue May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2025

Research Org.:: Pacific Northwest National Lab (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); Biological and Environmental Research (BER); Awarding Entity, Inc.

Subject:: Catchment scale; Flash drought; Hydroclimatic extremes

OSTI Identifier:: 2568767

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.57931/2568767

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                    Gesualdo, Gabriela, & Hadjimichael, Antonia. Flash Drought indicators at catchment scale for CONUS.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.57931/2568767

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                    Gesualdo, Gabriela, and Hadjimichael, Antonia. 2025.  
"Flash Drought indicators at catchment scale for CONUS".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.57931/2568767.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2568767. Pub date:Tue May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2025

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