Some Meteorological Aspects of Severe Agricultural Drought in the Northern Black Sea Region in 2019–2020

Abstract

An overview of the meteorological and synoptic conditions for the formation of the severe drought which occurred in 2019–2020 in the southwest of Ukraine showed that the combination of several adverse factors influenced the evolution of the drought over a long period of time. Analysis of two types of drought indices and anomalies in the tropospheric pressure fields showed that the formation of a precipitation deficit began long before the occurrence of drought, due to the repetition of high pressure fields in the region, through which the intensity of the drought increased gradually.