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Overview

Mark Svoboda is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change. Their work spans several subfields including atmospheric science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, water science and technology, and ocean engineering.

The core topics of Mark Svoboda's research include:

  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Flood risk assessment and management
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Water resources management and optimization

Among the recent notable papers associated with their research are:

  • "Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction," published in 2020 in Nature Climate Change
  • "Czech Drought Monitor System for monitoring and forecasting agricultural drought and drought impacts," published in 2020 in International Journal of Climatology
  • "Developing a Remote Sensing-Based Combined Drought Indicator Approach for Agricultural Drought Monitoring over Marathwada, India," published in 2020 in Remote Sensing
  • "Getting ahead of Flash Drought: From Early Warning to Early Action," published in 2022 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Toward impact-based monitoring of drought and its cascading hazards," published in 2023 in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Mark Svoboda frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Michael J. Hayes
  • Tsegaye Tadesse
  • Brian Wardlow
  • Tonya Haigh
  • Rachael McDonnell

The most common publication venues for Mark Svoboda's work are:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Remote Sensing
  • Water
  • Scientific Reports
  • Weather Climate and Society

Best Publications

  • Monitoring the 1996 Drought Using the Standardized Precipitation Index

    Michael J. Hayes;Mark D. Svoboda;Donald A. Wilhite;Olga V. Vanyarkho

  • THE DROUGHT MONITOR

    Mark D. Svoboda;Doug LeComte;Mike Hayes;Richard Heim

  • The lincoln declaration on drought indices: Universal meteorological drought index recommended

    Michael Hayes;Mark Svoboda;Nicole Wall;Melissa Widhalm

  • Understanding the complex impacts of drought: A key to enhancing drought mitigation and preparedness

    Donald A. Wilhite;Mark D. Svoboda;Michael J. Hayes

  • Drought in the Anthropocene

    Anne F. Van Loon;Tom Gleeson;Julian Clark;Albert I J M Van Dijk

  • Drought Monitoring with NDVI-Based Standardized Vegetation Index

    Albert J. Peters;Elizabeth A. Walter-Shea;Lei Ji;Andrés Viña

  • Flash Droughts: A Review and Assessment of the Challenges Imposed by Rapid-Onset Droughts in the United States

    Jason A. Otkin;Mark Svoboda;Eric D. Hunt;Trent W. Ford

  • Are droughts becoming more frequent or severe in China based on the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index: 1951–2010?

    Meixiu Yu;Meixiu Yu;Qiongfang Li;Michael J. Hayes;Mark D. Svoboda

  • Appropriate application of the standardized precipitation index in arid locations and dry seasons

    Hong Wu;Mark D. Svoboda;Michael J. Hayes;Donald A. Wilhite

  • Drought in a human-modified world : reframing drought definitions, understanding, and analysis approaches

    Anne F. Van Loon;Kerstin Stahl;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Julian Clark

  • The effect of the length of record on the standardized precipitation index calculation

    Hong Wu;Michael J. Hayes;Donald A. Wilhite;Mark D. Svoboda

  • Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Gerald A. Meehl;Roger Pulwarty;Mike Hobbins;Mike Hobbins

  • Assessing the evolution of soil moisture and vegetation conditions during the 2012 United States flash drought

    Jason A. Otkin;Martha C. Anderson;Christopher R Hain;Mark D. Svoboda

  • An Intercomparison of Drought Indicators Based on Thermal Remote Sensing and NLDAS-2 Simulations with U.S. Drought Monitor Classifications

    Martha C. Anderson;Christopher Hain;Jason Otkin;Xiwu Zhan

  • Examining Rapid Onset Drought Development Using the Thermal Infrared–Based Evaporative Stress Index

    Jason A. Otkin;Martha C. Anderson;Christopher Hain;Iliana E. Mladenova

  • Drought hazard assessment in the context of climate change for South Korea

    Won Ho Nam;Michael J. Hayes;Mark D. Svoboda;Tsegaye Tadesse

  • Application of relative drought indices in assessing climate-change impacts on drought conditions in Czechia

    M. Dubrovsky;Mark D. Svoboda;M. Trnka;Michael J. Hayes

  • Drought indicators revisited: the need for a wider consideration of environment and society

    Sophie Bachmair;Kerstin Stahl;Kevin Collins;Jamie Hannaford

  • Handbook of Drought Indicators and Indices

    Mark D. Svoboda;Brian A. Fuchs

  • Use of remote sensing indicators to assess effects of drought and human-induced land degradation on ecosystem health in Northeastern Brazil

    Denis A. Mariano;Carlos A.C. dos Santos;Brian D. Wardlow;Martha C. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Hayes
Michael J. Hayes University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Brian D. Wardlow
Brian D. Wardlow University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Miroslav Trnka
Miroslav Trnka Czech Academy of Sciences
Donald A. Wilhite
Donald A. Wilhite University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Martha C. Anderson
Martha C. Anderson Agricultural Research Service
Christopher Hain
Christopher Hain Marshall Space Flight Center
Jamie Hannaford
Jamie Hannaford National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Josef Eitzinger
Josef Eitzinger BOKU University
Kerstin Stahl
Kerstin Stahl University of Freiburg
Jason A. Otkin
Jason A. Otkin University of Wisconsin–Madison

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