Auburn University Professor, Team Discover Breakthrough Process That Will Boost Ability To Predict Drought

By Teri Greene – Auburn University

Sanjiv Kumar, assistant professor in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University, led a team of researchers who recently discovered soil moisture re-emergence, a phenomenon that experts say will have a profound impact on climate predictability science, particularly in the long-term forecasting of drought.

The team’s findings were recently published in the Journal of Climate.

“The soil moisture re-emergence process discovered in this study provides a foundational basis for developing an early warning system for drought, which is a multibillion-dollar event,” Kumar said, citing the 2012 drought that spread devastation along a broad section of the U.S. and resulted in an economic loss of $30 billion, largely from the agricultural sector.

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