Articles | Volume 383
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-383-307-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-383-307-2020
Post-conference publication
 | 
16 Sep 2020
Post-conference publication |  | 16 Sep 2020

Trends in national and regional scale drought in New Zealand

Daniel G. Kingston and Eleanor J. Treadwell

Related authors

Brief communication: Forecasting extreme precipitation from atmospheric rivers in New Zealand
Daniel G. Kingston, Liam Cooper, David A. Lavers, and David M. Hannah
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1742,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1742, 2024
Short summary
Understanding and predicting large-scale hydrological variability in a changing environment
Nicolas Massei, Daniel G. Kingston, David M. Hannah, Jean-Philippe Vidal, Bastien Dieppois, Manuel Fossa, Andreas Hartmann, David A. Lavers, and Benoit Laignel
Proc. IAHS, 383, 141–149, https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-383-141-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-383-141-2020, 2020
Short summary
Intercomparison of different uncertainty sources in hydrological climate change projections for an alpine catchment (upper Clutha River, New Zealand)
Andreas M. Jobst, Daniel G. Kingston, Nicolas J. Cullen, and Josef Schmid
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 3125–3142, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3125-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3125-2018, 2018
The European 2015 drought from a hydrological perspective
Gregor Laaha, Tobias Gauster, Lena M. Tallaksen, Jean-Philippe Vidal, Kerstin Stahl, Christel Prudhomme, Benedikt Heudorfer, Radek Vlnas, Monica Ionita, Henny A. J. Van Lanen, Mary-Jeanne Adler, Laurie Caillouet, Claire Delus, Miriam Fendekova, Sebastien Gailliez, Jamie Hannaford, Daniel Kingston, Anne F. Van Loon, Luis Mediero, Marzena Osuch, Renata Romanowicz, Eric Sauquet, James H. Stagge, and Wai K. Wong
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 3001–3024, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3001-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3001-2017, 2017
Short summary
The European 2015 drought from a climatological perspective
Monica Ionita, Lena M. Tallaksen, Daniel G. Kingston, James H. Stagge, Gregor Laaha, Henny A. J. Van Lanen, Patrick Scholz, Silvia M. Chelcea, and Klaus Haslinger
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 1397–1419, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1397-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-1397-2017, 2017
Short summary

Cited articles

Fitzharris, B. B.: The 1992 electricity crisis and the role of climate and hydrology, New Zeal. Geogr., 48, 79–83, 1992. 
McKee, T. B., Doesken, N. J., and Kleist, J.: The relationship of drought frequency and duration to time scales, Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Applied Climatology vol. 17, no. 22, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, USA, pp. 179–183, 1993. 
Mishra, A. K. and Singh, V. P.: A review of drought concepts, J. Hydrol., 391, 202–216, 2010. 
MPI: Four Degrees of Global Warming: Effects on the New Zealand Primary Sector, MPI Technical Information Paper No: 2013/49, prepared for the Ministry for Primary Industries, 180 pp., 2013. 
Reisinger, A., Kitching, R. L., Chiew, F., Hughes, L., Newton, P. C. D., Schuster, S. S., Tait, A., and Whetton, P.: Australasia, in: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part B: Regional Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, edited by: Barros, V. R., Field, C. B., Dokken, D. J., Mastrandrea, M. D., Mach, K. J., Bilir, T. E., Chatterjee, M., Ebi, K. L., Estrada, Y. O., Genova, R. C., Girma, B., Kissel, E. S., Levy, A. N., MacCracken, S., Mastrandrea, P. R., and White, L. L., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1371–1438, 2014. 
Download
Short summary
New Zealand droughts are investigated using two commonly used measures: one based on precipitation alone, and one on precipitation minus evaporation. Comparison of these two measures shows that as evaporation increases as a result of anthropogenic climate change, drought events are getting bigger. This trend is particularly apparent in the driest and hottest parts of New Zealand.