SAH-5 - Moisture Transport and Drought Episodes In The Reference Regions of IPCC

Climatological Annual Cycle of Precipitation and of Atmospheric Evaporative Demand over the RR
Climatological Annual Cycle of the Lagrangian Analysis Components for RR
Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) Time Series and Drought Episodes Identified Over the RR at different SPEI scales during 1980-2015
Anomalies of the Lagrangian Analysis Components for the Most Severe Meteorological Drought Episode over the RR during 1980-2015
Correlation Analysis between the Anomalies of Lagrangian Analysis Components and the SPEI-1 Time Series for the RR during 1980-2015

Correlation Analysis between Anomalies of Lagrangian Analysis Components and the SPEI-1 Time Series for SAH during 1980-2015

Table 1. Pearson correlation coefficients between the time series of SPEI-1 and moisture uptake and moisture supply over RR.

SPEI-1 x	BLS	MED	NAT	RED	SEC	TER	SAH

moisture uptake	0.144	0.465	-0.246	0.045	0.073	0.074	0.190
moisture supply	0.180	-0.001	-0.316	-0.115	0.021	-0.009	0.200

Table 3. Pearson correlation coefficients between the time series of moisture supply from RR to its remote terrestrial sink and PRE over sink .

	PRE sink
Supply sink	0.414

Values significant at 99% according to the Student’s t-test are in red.