Probability of extreme drought. The likelihood of an event with a 10% or less chance of occurrence in the base period of 1°C of climate warming (2000-2020). Hyper-arid regions are masked as drought cannot occur under permanently dry conditions. Drought is defined as a temporary negative anomaly in local water balance conditions.
This data layer was created using input data from the
NEX-GDDP-CMIP6 dataset.