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Responding to Hurricanes, Floods and Droughts in North Carolina
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Multi-year hydroclimatic droughts and pluvials across the conterminous United States

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Drying corn field due to drought

EDDI, a New Drought Index, Provides Early Warning of Flash Droughts

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National water summary 1988–89 — Hydrologic events and floods and droughts

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Hydrologic response of aquifers to droughts in the Great Plains, U.S.A.

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Legacy effects of hydrologic alteration in playa wetland responses to droughts

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Tree mortality during California’s extreme drought

Leaf to Landscape: Understanding and Mapping Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts

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Variability of hydrological droughts in the conterminous United States, 1951 through 2014

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A Holocene pollen record of persistent droughts from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA

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Agricultural tile drains increase the susceptibility of streams to longer and more intense streamflow droughts

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Climatic limits on foliar growth during major droughts in the Southwestern U.S.A.

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Forest fire

Fire Impacts in U.S. West: Droughts Lead to More Tree Deaths from Fire

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Historical perspective of Statewide streamflows during the 1977 and 2002 droughts in Colorado

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Winter view with pine trees and snow scattered on ground and Bridge over stream beyond Bond Falls near Paulding, MI

Floods, Droughts and Hazards
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Hurricane Irma

Droughts, Floods, and Hurricanes
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Low stand density moderates growth declines during hot droughts in semi-arid forests

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Photo depicting drought-related tree mortality in Sequoia National Park

Leaf to Landscape: Understanding and Mapping the Vulnerability of Forests to Hotter Droughts

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Image: USGS Documents 2015 Drought

Low 2015 Snowpack and River Flows Studied to Provide Insight Into Future Droughts

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Historical perspective of statewide streamflows during the 2002 and 1977 droughts in Colorado

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Image: Dust Storm Near Winslow, Arizona, in April 2011

Floods and Droughts
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Photo of a USGS hydrologist documenting a water-covered street with a flooded semi in the ditch.

Floods and Droughts
Presentations and Events
Do droughts affect groundwater quality?

PubTalk-02/2022 - Do Droughts Affect Groundwater Quality? A California Story
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Reductions in tree performance during hotter droughts are mitigated by shifts in nitrogen cycling

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Predicting East African spring droughts using Pacific and Indian Ocean sea surface temperature indices

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The relation between decadal droughts and eruptions of Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, USA

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Jessica Rodysill (Reston) and Hunter Wilcox (SPCMSC) deploying a corer in Lake Enriquillo.

USGS Scientists set out to unlock the mysteries of prehistoric droughts in the Caribbean

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Teleconnected ocean forcing of Western North American droughts and pluvials during the last millennium

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During Recent Droughts: Central Valley Groundwater Levels Reached Historical Lows and Land Subsidence Intensified

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Paleohydrological context for recent floods and droughts in the Fraser River Basin, British Columbia, Canada

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Identifying climate-resistant vernal pools: Hydrologic refugia for amphibian reproduction under droughts and climate change

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