What role does evaporative demand play in driving drought in Africa?
Mike Hobbins1, Shraddhanand Shukla2, Amy McNally3, Daniel McEvoy4, Justin L Huntington5, Gregory J Husak6, Chris C Funk7, Gabriel B Senay8, James P Verdin9, Timen Jansma10 and Candida Dewes1, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Desert Research Institute, Reno, United States, (5)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States, (6)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (7)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (8)USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Fort Collins, United States, (9)University of Maryland, Boulder, United States, (10)University of Groningen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands
