Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 29, issue 14
Articles | Volume 29, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3341-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3341-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 29, issue 14
Research article
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30 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 30 Jul 2025

Global catalog of soil moisture droughts over the past four decades

Jan Řehoř, Rudolf Brázdil, Oldřich Rakovec, Martin Hanel, Milan Fischer, Rohini Kumar, Jan Balek, Markéta Poděbradská, Vojtěch Moravec, Luis Samaniego, Yannis Markonis, and Miroslav Trnka

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We present a robust method for identification and classification of global land drought events (GLDEs) based on soil moisture. Two models were used to calculate soil moisture and delimit soil drought over global land from 1980–2022, with clusters of 775 and 630 GLDEs. Using four spatiotemporal and three motion-related characteristics, we categorized GLDEs into seven severity and seven dynamic categories. The frequency of GLDEs has generally increased in recent decades.
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