Publications

Peer-reviewed: Papers, Extended Abstracts

• Lisonbee J, Parker B, Ford T, Bocensky RK, Fleishman E, Follingstad G, Frazier AG, Hoylman ZH, Hudson AR, Nielsen-Gammon JW, Umphlett NA, Wickham E, Bamzai-Dodson A, Fontenot R, Fuchs B, Hammond JC, Herrick JE, Hobbins MT, Hoell A, Jones J, Lane E, Leasor Z, Li Y, Otkin JA, Sheffield A, Todey D, and Pulwarty R (2024), Prioritization of research on drought assessment in a changing climate. Earth's Future, doi:10.1029/2024EF005276 (in press).
• Hughes MA, Jackson DL, Unruh D, Wang H, Hobbins MT, Ogden FL, Cifelli R, Cosgrove B, DeWitt D, Dugger A, Ford TW, Fuchs B, Glaudemans M, Gochis D, Quiring SM, RafieeiNasab A, Xia Y, Webb RS, and Xu L (2024), Evaluation of retrospective National Water Model soil moisture and streamflow for drought-monitoring applications. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 129(6):e2023JD038522, doi:10.1029/2023JD038522.
• Otkin JA, Woloszyn M, Wang H, Svoboda MD, Skumanich M, Pulwarty R, Lisonbee J, Hoell A, Hobbins MT, Haigh T, and Cravens AE (2024), Anticipating flash drought: Formulating a system for early warning and even earlier action. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(2):103-105.
• Stuart L, Hobbins MT, Niebuhr E, Ruane AC, Pulwarty R, Hoell A, Thiaw WM, Rosenzweig C, Muñoz-Arriola F, Jahn M, and Farrar M (2024), Enhancing global food security: Opportunities for the American Meteorological Society. Published online at Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0106.1.
• Christian JI, Hobbins MT, Hoell A, Otkin JA, Ford TW, Cravens AE, Powlen KA, Wang H, and Mishra V (2024), Flash drought: A state of the science review. WIREs Water, 11(3):e1714, doi:10.1002/wat2.1714.
• Hobbins MT, Jansma T, Sarmiento DP, McNally A, Magadzire T, Jayanthi H, Turner W, Hoell A, Husak G, Senay GB, Boiko O, Budde M, Mogane P, and Dewes CF (2023), A global, long-term, daily reanalysis of reference evapotranspiration for drought and food-security monitoring. Scientific Data, 10:746, doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02648-4.
• Otkin JA, Woloszyn M, Wang H, Svoboda MD, Skumanich M, Pulwarty R, Lisonbee J, Hoell A, Hobbins MT, Haigh T, and Cravens AE (2022), Getting ahead of flash drought: From early warning to early action. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, E2188–E2202, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0288.1.
• Abadi A, Gwon Y, Gribble M, Berman J, Bilotta R, Hobbins MT, and Bell J (2022), Drought and all-cause mortality risk in Nebraska from 1980 to 2014: Time-series analyses by age, sex, race, urbanicity and temporality of drought. Science of the Total Environment, 840:156660, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156660.
• McEvoy DJ, Roj S, Dunkerly C, McGraw D, Huntington JL, Hobbins MT, and Ott T (2022), Validation and bias correction of forecast reference evapotranspiration for agricultural applications in Nevada, USA. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(11):04022057, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001595.
• Hoffmann D, Gallant A, and Hobbins MT (2021), Flash drought in CMIP5 models. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22:1439–1454, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-20-0262.1.
• Parker T, Gallant A, Hobbins MT, and Hoffmann D (2021), Flash drought in Australia and its relationship to evaporative demand. Environmental Research Letters, 16(6):064033, doi:110.1088/1748-9326/abfe2c.
• Kew SF, Philip SY, Hauser M, Hobbins MT, Wanders N, van Oldenborgh GJ, van der Wiel K, Veldkamp TIE, Kimutai J, Funk CC, and Otto FEL (2021), Impact of precipitation and increasing temperatures on drought in eastern Africa. Earth System Dynamics, 12:17–35, doi:10.5194/esd-12-17-2021.
• Hobbins MT, and Barsugli JJ (2020), Threatening the vigor of the Colorado River: Loss of sunlight-reflecting snow spurs evaporation and ebbs river flow. Science, 367(6483):1192-1193, doi:10.1126/science.abb3624.
• Pendergrass AG, Meehl GA, Pulwarty RS, Hobbins MT, Hoell A, AghaKouchak A, Bonfils CJW, Gallant AJE, Hoerling M, Hoffmann D, Kaatz L, Lehner F, Llewellyn D, Mote P, Neale RB, Overpeck JT, Sheffield A, Stahl K, Svoboda MD, Wheeler MC, Wood AW, and Woodhouse CA (2020), Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction. Nature Climate Change, 10:191-199, doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0709-0.
• Zhang B, Xia Y, Long B, Hobbins MT, Zhao X, Hain CR, Li Y, and Anderson MC (2020), Evaluation and comparison of multiple evapotranspiration data models over the contiguous United States: Implications for the next phase of NLDAS (NLDAS-Testbed) development. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 280(107810), doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.107810.
• Hobbins MT, Dewes CF, Huntington JL, McEvoy DJ, Rangwala I, Shukla S, and Yocum HM (2019), Evaporative demand: Dynamics and opportunities in drought early warning, monitoring, and vulnerability assessment. Proceedings of the 6th Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, Shepherdstown, WV, 23-26 July, doi:10.2737/SRS-GTR-243.
• Rangwala I, and Hobbins MT (2019), Flash droughts in the Mountain West: Emerging risks under a warmer climate. Mountain Views, 13(1):34-37.
• McEvoy DJ, Hobbins MT, Brown TJ, VanderMolen KA, Wall TU, Huntington JL, and Svoboda MD (2019), Establishing relationships between drought and wildfire danger indices: A test case for the California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System. Climate, 7(52), doi:10.3390/cli7040052.
• McNeeley SM, Dewes CF, Stiles CJ, Beeton TA, Rangwala I, Hobbins MT, and Knutson CL (2018), Anatomy of an interrupted irrigation season: Micro-drought at the Wind River Indian Reservation. Climate Risk Management, 19:61-82, doi:10.1016/j.crm.2017.09.004.
• Shukla S, McEvoy DJ, Hobbins MT, Husak GJ, Huntington JL, Funk CC, and Verdin JP (2017), Examining the value of global seasonal reference evapotranspiration forecasts to support FEWS NET’s food security outlooks. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 56:2941-2949, doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0104.1.
• Dewes CF, Rangwala I, Barsugli JJ, Hobbins MT, and Kumar S (2017), Drought risk assessment under climate change is sensitive to methodological choices for the estimation of evaporative demand. PLoS ONE, 12(3):e0174045, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174045.
• Hobbins MT, Wood AW, McEvoy DJ, Huntington JL, Morton CG, Anderson MC, and Hain CR (2016), The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Part I - Linking drought evolution to variations in evaporative demand. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 17:1745-1761, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-15-0121.1.
• McEvoy DJ, Huntington JL, Hobbins MT, Wood AW, Morton CG, Anderson MC, and Hain CR (2016), The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Part II - CONUS-wide assessment against common drought indicators. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 17:1763-1779, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-15-0122.1.
• Hobbins MT (2016), The variability of ASCE Standardized Reference Evapotranspiration: A rigorous, CONUS-wide decomposition and attribution. Trans. ASABE, 59(2):561-576, doi:10.13031/trans.59.10975, WINNER: 2017 ASABE Superior Paper Award.
• McEvoy DJ, Huntington JL, Mejia JF, and Hobbins MT (2016), Improved seasonal drought forecasts using reference evapotranspiration anomalies. Geophysical Research Letters, 43:377-385, doi:10.1002/2015GL067009.
• Moorhead J, Gowda PH, Hobbins MT, Senay GB, Paul G, Marek T, and Porter D (2015), Accuracy assessment of NOAA gridded daily reference evapotranspiration for the Texas High Plains. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 51(5):1262-1271, doi:10.1111/1752-1688.12303.
• King DA, Bachelet DM, Symstad AJ, Ferschweiler K, and Hobbins MT (2015), Estimation of potential evapotranspiration from extraterrestrial radiation, air temperature and humidity to assess future climate change effects on the vegetation of the Northern Great Plains, USA. Ecological Modelling, 297:86-97, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.10.037.
• Xia Y, Hobbins MT, Mu Q, and Ek MB (2015), Evaluation of NLDAS-2 evapotranspiration against tower flux site observations. Hydrological Processes, 29:1757-1771, doi:10.1002/hyp.10299.
• Hobbins MT (2014), Measuring the atmosphere’s thirst. Dry Times: National Integrated Drought Information System Newsletter, 4(1):14-15.
• Bardsley TJ, Wood AW, Hobbins MT, Kirkham T, Briefer L, Niermeyer J, and Burian SJ (2013), Planning for an uncertain future: Climate change sensitivity assessment towards adaptation planning for public water supply. Earth Interactions, 17(23), doi:10.1175/2012EI000501.1.
• Lim WH, Roderick ML, Hobbins MT, Wong SC, and Farquhar GD (2013), The energy balance of a US Class A evaporation pan. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 182-183:314-331, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.07.001.
• Hobbins MT, Wood AW, Streubel D, and Werner K (2012), What drives the variability of evaporative demand across the conterminous United States? Journal of Hydrometeorology, 13:1195-1214, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-11-0101.1.
• Lim WH, Roderick ML, Hobbins MT, Wong SC, Groeneveld PJ, Sun F, and Farquhar GD (2012), The aerodynamics of pan evaporation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 152:31-43, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.08.006.
• Szilagyi J, Hobbins MT, and Jozsa J (2009), Modified advection-aridity model of evapotranspiration. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 14(6):569-574, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000026.
• Roderick ML, Hobbins MT, and Farquhar GD (2009), Pan evaporation trends and the terrestrial water balance. I. Principles and observations. Geography Compass, 3(2):746-760, doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00213.x.
• Roderick ML, Hobbins MT, and Farquhar GD (2009), Pan evaporation trends and the terrestrial water balance. II. Energy balance and interpretation. Geography Compass, 3(2):761-780, doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00214.x.
• Brown TC, Hobbins MT, and Ramírez JA (2008), Spatial distribution of water supply in the coterminous United States. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 44(6):1474-1487, doi:10.1111/j.1752-1688.2008.00252.x.
• Hobbins MT, Dai A, Roderick ML, and Farquhar GD (2008), Revisiting the parameterization of potential evaporation as a driver of long-term water balance trends. Geophysical Research Letters, 35:L12403, doi:10.1029/2008GL033840.
• Roderick ML, Rotstayn LD, Farquhar GD, and Hobbins MT (2007), On the attribution of changing pan evaporation. Geophysical Research Letters, 34:L17403, doi:10.1029/2007GL031166.
• Ramírez JA, Hobbins MT, and Brown TC (2005), Observational evidence of the complementary relationship in regional evaporation lends strong support for Bouchet's hypothesis. Geophysical Research Letters, 32:L15401, doi:10.1029/2005GL023549.
• Hobbins MT, Ramírez JA, and Brown TC (2004), Trends in pan evaporation and actual evaporation across the conterminous U.S.: Paradoxical or complementary? Geophysical Research Letters, 31:L13503, doi:10.1029/2004GL0198426.
• Hobbins MT, Ramírez JA, and Brown TC (2004), Developing a long-term, high-resolution, continental-scale, spatially distributed time-series of topographically corrected solar radiation. Proceedings of the 24th Annual AGU Hydrology Days, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 10-12 March.
• Hobbins MT, Ramírez JA, Brown TC, and Claessens LHJM (2001), The complementary relationship in estimation of regional evapotranspiration: The Complementary Relationship Areal Evapotranspiration and Advection-aridity models. Water Resources Research, 37(5):1367-1387, doi:10.1029/2000WR900358.
• Hobbins MT, Ramírez JA, and Brown TC (2001), The complementary relationship in estimation of regional evapotranspiration: An enhanced Advection-aridity model. Water Resources Research, 37(5):1389-1403, doi:10.1029/2000WR900359.
• Hobbins MT, Ramírez JA, and Brown TC (2001), Trends in regional evapotranspiration across the United States under the complementary relationship hypothesis. Proceedings of the 21st Annual AGU Hydrology Days, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2-5 April, pp. 106-121.
• Hobbins MT, Ramírez JA, and Brown TC (1999), The complementary relationship in regional evapotranspiration: The CRAE model and the Advection-aridity approach. Proceedings of the 19th Annual AGU Hydrology Days, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 16-20 August, pp. 199-212.

Peer-reviewed: Book Chapters

• Baghban S, Bozorg-Haddad O, Berndtsson R, Hobbins MT, and Al-Ansari N (2022), Mitigation and Adaptation Measures. Chapter 9 in: Climate Change in Sustainable Water Resources Management, edited by Bozorg-Haddad O, Springer Water, Singapore. ISBN:978-981-19-1898-8, doi:10.1007/978-981-19-1898-8_9.
• Hobbins MT, Senay GB, Gowda PH, and Artan GA (2019), Evapotranspiration and evaporative demand. Chapter 3 in: Statistical Analysis of Hydrological Variables: Methods and Applications, edited by Teegavarapu R, Salas JD, and Stedinger JR, American Society of Civil Engineers-Environmental Water Resources Institute, Reston, VA, ISBN:9780784415177, doi:10.1061/9780784415177.ch03.
• Hobbins MT, Rangwala I, Barsugli JJ, and Dewes CF (2019), Extremes in evaporative demand and their implications for drought and drought monitoring in the 21st Century. Chapter 25 in: Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability: Monitoring, Modeling, Adaptation and Mitigation, edited by Melesse AM, Abtew W, and Senay GB, Elsevier, New York, NY, ISBN:9780128159989.
• Hobbins MT, McEvoy DJ, and Hain CR (2017), Evapotranspiration, evaporative demand, and drought. Chapter 11 in: Drought and Water Crises: Integrating Science, Management, and Policy, edited by Wilhite DA and Pulwarty RS, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, doi:10.1201/9781315265551 ISBN-13:978-1-138-03564-5.
• Hobbins MT, and Huntington JL (2016), Evapotranspiration and evaporative demand. Chapter 42 in: Handbook of Applied Hydrology, edited by Singh VP, McGraw-Hill Education, New York, NY, ISBN-13:978-0071835091.

Peer-reviewed: Datasets

• Hobbins MT, Dewes CF, and Jansma T (2022), Global reference evapotranspiration for food-security monitoring: NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory and USGS data release (ver. 2.0, October 2023). U.S. Geological Survey Sciencebase, doi:10.5066/P9IIQMV1.
• Rangwala I, Smith LL, Senay GB, Barsugli JJ, Kagone S, and Hobbins MT (2019), Landscape Evaporative Response Index (LERI): A high-resolution monitoring and assessment of evapotranspiration across the contiguous United States. U.S. Geological Survey ScienceBase, doi:10.21429/43r4-3q68.
• Hobbins MT, Barsugli JJ, Dewes CF, and Rangwala I (2017), Monthly pan evaporation data across the continental United States between 1950-2001. U.S. Geological Survey ScienceBase, doi:10.21429/C9MW25.

Peer-reviewed: Dissertation, Thesis

• Hobbins MT (2004), Regional evapotranspiration and pan evaporation: Complementary interactions and long-term trends across the conterminous United States. Doctoral dissertation, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, 232 pp.
• Hobbins MT (2000), Evaluating and enhancing two implementations of the complementary relationship in regional evapotranspiration. Master’s thesis, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, 214 pp.

In Peer Review or Revision

• Kukal M, and Hobbins MT (2024), Thirstwaves: Prolonged periods of agricultural exposure to extreme atmospheric evaporative demand for water. Accepted pending minor revisions at Earth's Future.
• Pourhamidian SS, Khoshkhoo Y, and Hobbins MT (2024), Comparative analysis of drought conditions: Characterizing and trends using SPEI and EDDI in Urmia Lake basin. In revision for Journal of Hydrology.
• Breeden ML, Hoell A, Worsnop RP, Albers JR, Hobbins MT, Robinson RM, and Vimont DJ (2025), Seasonal predictability of vapor pressure deficit in the western United States. In review at Weather and Climate Dynamics.

Technical Reports, White Papers

• Colón-Burgos D, Rangwala I, Hobbins MT, Senay GB, Muñoz E, Holt C, and Rivera G (2021), Decadal-scale changes in drought-related climate parameters: Assessing the consistency of global climate models in projecting changes in the Northern Great Plains. Report of the 2021 Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, CO, 6 August. doi:10.5065/aszf-wf02.
• Woloszyn M, Skumanich M, Lisonbee J, Deheza V, Hobbins MT, Hoell A, Otkin J, Svoboda MD, and Wang H (2021), Flash drought: Current understanding and future priorities. Report of the 2020 NIDIS Flash Drought Virtual Workshop, NOAA National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, CO, 29 July.
• Hobbins MT, Glaudemans M, Huntington JL, McEvoy DJ, Rangwala I, Ray AJ, Tan X, and Yocum HM (2020), Operationalizing an Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) service for drought monitoring and early warning. Final project report to NOAA Joint Technology Transfer Initiative Program, NOAA Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, 19 March.
• McEvoy DJ, Brown TJ, Wall TU, Hobbins MT, Huntington JL, and Svoboda MD (2018), Developing a wildfire component for the NIDIS California Drought Early Warning System. Annual progress report to NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV, April.
• Lukas JJ, Hobbins MT, Rangwala I, and the EDDI Team (2017), The EDDI User Guide. Western Water Assessment, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
• Brown TJ, McEvoy DJ, Wall TU, Hobbins MT, Huntington JL, Svoboda MD (2017), Developing a wildfire component for the NIDIS California Drought Early Warning System. Annual progress report to NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV, April.
• Rangwala I, Hobbins MT, Barsugli JJ, and Dewes CF (2015), EDDI: A powerful tool for early drought warning. 2-pager document. Western Water Assessment, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
• Allen RG, Anderson MC, Bolten J, Cestti R, Dunsmoor L, Fisher JB, Hain CR, Harshadeep N, Hobbins MT, Huntington JL, Hook S, Kilic A, Kustas WP, Lee C, Mendez-Costabel M, Melton FS, Morse T, Tracy J, Verdin JP, Willardson T, Wolff S, and Woodward D (2015), Evapotranspiration mapping for water security: recommendations and requirements. Recommendations of the Participants of the 2015 Workshop on Evapotranspiration Mapping for Water Security, Washington, D.C., 15-17 September.
• Hobbins MT (2010), What are evapotranspiration and forecast reference crop evapotranspiration (FRET)? NOAA National Weather Service Western Regional Headquarters.
• Brown TC, Hobbins MT, and Ramírez JA (2005), The source of water supply in the United States. RMRS-RWU 4851 Discussion Paper, Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO.
• Ramírez JA, Hobbins MT, and Brown TC (2002), Adapting the complementary relationship for mountainous areas of the United States. Final report, Cooperative Agreement 28-JV7-945 between Colorado State University and Rocky Mountain Research Station, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
• Hobbins MT, Ramírez JA, and Brown TC (2000), The complementary relationship in the estimation of regional evapotranspiration: An enhanced Advection-Aridity model. Open File Report No.13, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
• Hobbins MT, and Bowen BD (1995), Water quality discipline report: I-5 high occupancy vehicle lane project, Mounts Road to Fife Interchange, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA.
• Hobbins MT (1995), National pollution discharge elimination system permit application: Pierce County, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA. Hobbins MT (1995), Global positioning system protocol, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA.
• Hobbins MT (1995), Outfall inventory and field-screening project report: WSDOT Olympic Region, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA.

Press Coverage of Projects and Products

• NOAA/NIDIS (2025), Drought status update for California-Nevada. Drought.gov News & Events, 16 January.
• Henson B (2025), This week’s unholy mix of drought, wind, and fire in Southern California. Yale Climate Connections, 7 January.
• Fleck J (2024), Lousy start to the Colorado/Rio Grande 2024-25 snowpack season. JFLECK AT INKSTAIN, 21 December.
• NOAA/NIDIS (2024), Drought status update for California-Nevada. Drought.gov News & Events, 17 October.
• NOAA/NIDIS (2024), Intermountain West 2024 water year and monsoon summary and drought status update. Drought.gov News & Events, 9 October.
• Merrill C (2024), Historic West Virginia drought takes another turn for the worst; rain outlook bleak. WOAY-TV, 12 September.
• Lee J (2024), California 'atmospheric thirst' is drying out the state. Map shows where 'flash drought' is developing. San Francisco Chronicle, 24 July.
• Merrill C (2024), Weather pattern lining up for flash drought development. WOAY-TV, 11 June.
• Parry B (2024), Louisiana's 2023 water crisis examined. LSU College of the Coast and Environment Media Center, 10 June.
• Wood S (2024), NOAA: Prolonged rain delivers ‘perfect’ foraging conditions in California. North Bay Business Journal, 10 April.
• NOAA/NIDIS (2024), Featured maps and data: Using EDDI as a flash drought indicator. Dry Times: National Integrated Drought Information System Newsletter, 21 March.
• NOAA/NIDIS (2024), Severe drought increases mortality risk in the Northern Rockies and Plains. Drought.gov News & Events, 6 March.
• Halaly A (2024), Will rainfall stay in Las Vegas? This tool forecasts evaporation every day. Las Vegas Journal-Review, 15 February.
• Eurasia Review (2023), Understanding atmospheric flash droughts in the Caribbean. Eurasia Review, 24 December.
• Editorial Staff (2023), Research shows Caribbean nations are more susceptible to flash droughts. St. Vincent Times, 16 December.
• Louise A (2023), Carribean islands: Experts urging for accurate measures on dry conditions as region prone to drought. Nature World News, 16 December.
• Virginia Tech (2023), Understanding atmospheric flash droughts in the Caribbean. EureakAlert!, 15 December.
• Fleming D (2023), Caribbean islands are uniquely susceptible to sudden droughts. Virginia Tech News, 14 December.
• NOAA/NIDIS (2023), Southern Plains drought status update. Drought.gov News & Events, 26 October.
• NOAA/NIDIS (2023), Summer 2023 in review: A look back at drought across the U.S. in 10 maps. Drought.gov News & Events, 21 September.
• Woolsey S (2023), Study finds regional and demographic increases of respiratory mortality during drought. Drought.gov, 23 August.
• Goodland M (2023), Colorado poised for cool, wet fall after summer return to drought conditions, climatologist projects. Colorado Politics, 25 July.
• Baldwin R (2023), National Weather Service Drought Information Statement for May 19, 2023. The Prowers Journal, 22 May.
• Baldwin R (2023), Drought conditions Expand across southeast Colorado, NWS April 2023 Update. The Prowers Journal, 18 April.
• Baldwin R (2023), NWS Pueblo - Drought Information Statement. The Prowers Journal, 27 March.
• Baldwin R (2022), NWS Pueblo - Drought Information Statement. The Prowers Journal, 20 December.
• American Geophysical Union (2022), Droughts are associated with increase in suicides in the U.S.. YubaNet.com, 12 December.
• Baldwin R (2022), Drought Update from National Weather Service National Weather Service – Pueblo. The Prowers Journal, 14 November.
• Baldwin R (2022), Drought information statement - NWS Pueblo. The Prowers Journal, 16 September.
• Baldwin R (2022), Improvement in southeastern Colorado drought. The Prowers Journal, 29 August.
• Ridenour S (2022), Drought conditions expected to linger in Idaho. Challis Messenger, 18 August.
• Ulin Z (2022), Washington County experiencing moderate drought. KCII Radio, 29 July.
• Steward C (2022), Wayne County suffers moderate drought. Wayne County Journal Banner, 29 July.
• Bednarski R (2022), Are our Sierra Nevada towns destined to go down in flames? Sierra Nevada Ally, 13 July.
• Wasser M (2022), The drought in Massachusetts is getting worse. WBUR, 12 July.
• Baldwin R (2022), Improvements in drought conditions across south central and southeast Colorado. The Prowers Journal, 11 July.
• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (2022), For today’s #HumansOfCIRES, meet Mike Hobbins, Senior Research Scientist with CIRES/NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories! #HumansOfCIRES, 22 June.
• Noel J (2022), Wet weather continues before a pattern shift. Ohio's Country Journal, 3 May.
• Bolinger B (2022), Great Plains could see its most significant drought in a decade. Washington Post, 11 April.
• Baldwin R (2022), Drought information statement from NWS-Pueblo. The Prowers Journal, 15 March.
• Baldwin R (2022), Southeast Colorado drought update from NWS Pueblo for February 20, 2022. The Prowers Journal, 21 February.
• Stein T and Thompson C (2022), The Marshall Fire: Historic firestorm illustrates some of the ways NOAA responds when disaster strikes. NOAA Boulder, 29 January.
• Guy C (2022), Climate change and population growth creating conditions for more fires like the Marshall Fire. Rocky Mountain PBS, 21 January.
• Scott M (2022), Wet, then dry extremes contributed to devastating Marshall Fire in Colorado. Climate.gov, 7 January.
• Samenow J, Feuerstein J, and Bolinger B (2021), How extreme climate conditions fueled unprecedented Colorado fire. Washington Post, 31 December.
• Hobbins MT (2021), Understanding Drought: Dr. Mike Hobbins. Food Security2022 podcast, 22 December (E Niebuhr, Interviewer. Audio file).
• Baldwin R (2021), Drought persists and deepens across south central and southeast Colorado. The Prowers Journal, 20 December.
• Baldwin R (2021), Drought information statement-NWS Pueblo – November 11. The Prowers Journal, 11 November.
• Baldwin R (2021), October 2021 drought information update from Pueblo NWS. The Prowers Journal, 22 October.
• North Ops Predictive Services (2021), Significant Fire Potential for the North Ops region is Above Normal – through November. YubaNet.com, 4 August.
• North Ops Predictive Services (2021), Above normal significant fire potential July through October. YubaNet.com, 4 July.
• Fahys J (2021), Drier springs bring hotter summers in the withering Southwest. Inside Climate News, 2 July.
• Karstens B (2021), Hot days continue to impact much of KELOLAND. KELO, 15 June.
• Parker T and Gallant A (2021), ‘Flash droughts’ can dry out soil in weeks. New research shows what they look like in Australia. The Conversation, 3 June.
• North Ops Predictive Services (2021), Significant fire potential above normal for the 3,000 ft elevation in June-August. YubaNet.com, 4 May.
• NIDIS (2021), 2020 in review: A look back at drought across the United States in 12 Maps. Dry Times: National Integrated Drought Information System Newsletter, 7 January.
• Stanley S (2020), “Thirstier” atmosphere will increase wildfire risk out West. Eos, 101, 2 December.
• AZoCleanTech (2020), Study analyzes future projections of evaporative demand in California, Nevada. AZoCleantech, 20 November.
• Desert Research Institute (2020), Climate change and ‘atmospheric thirst’ to increase fire danger and drought in NV and CA: New study shows impacts of increased levels of evaporative demand as climate grows warmer and drier. ScienceDaily, 19 November.
• Hawley J (2020), Flash droughts are a new type of extreme weather event. Massive Science, 19 October.
• Freedman A (2020), Colorado wildfire erupts amid deepening drought, forcing evacuations in Boulder County. Washington Post, 19 October.
• Freedman A (2020), California’s ‘brutal’ heat wave is underway, expected to topple all-time records, escalate fire risks. Washington Post, 4 September.
• Freedman A and Leonard D (2020), Heat ‘rarely ever seen’ is forecast to roast West by the weekend, with wildfires still burning. Washington Post, 2 September.
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