Tsegaye Tadesse¹, David Y Hollinger², Yared A Bayissa¹, Getachew Berhan Demisse³, Mark D. Svoboda⁴ and Brian Fuchs⁴, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Climate Science Center, Addis Ababa University, Climate Science Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (4)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE, United States