Figure 2: Interannual and decadal variations of ensemble mean flash drought event and its component variables averaged over China.
From: Increasing flash droughts over China during the recent global warming hiatus
(a) The number of flash drought events per year, (b) surface air temperature (T) anomaly, (c) soil moisture (SM) anomaly, (d) ET anomaly (black curves). The red curves are the 10-year running means and the grey shadows are the ranges of results from different reanalysis products. Except for the flash drought events (a) that are averaged from three reanalysis products directly, the component variables (b–d) are standardized for each reanalysis product before being averaged to facilitate the comparison. All statistics are based on those during the growing seasons.
