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The energy and water cycles are key factors affecting drought. However, there are few quantitative studies on the mechanism of aridity change in this region. This study uses the ERA5, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Himawari 8 datasets and investigated the mechanism of drought change over the MP. The aridity index (the ratio of potential evaporation and total precipitation) is employed to detect drought changes. The results showed that the annual mean of aridity index increased by 0.73% per year (increased significantly since 1999) during the period 1979\u20132020. Moreover, the drought was most severe in the January to April of 2016\u20132020, mainly concentrated in the central and western parts of the MP. The potential evaporation increased (0.72% per year) and total precipitation decreased (0.16% per year) from 1979 to 2020. However, the surface temperature continued increasing from August to December in the period 2016\u20132020 (1.67% per year). This may result in an increase in potential evaporation and a decrease in volumetric soil water from August to December last year. The decrease of volumetric soil water resulted in the decrease of total cloud cover (0.25% per year) and total precipitation from January to April. The surface net radiation (increased by 0.42% per year) and the potential evaporation increased, which may aggravate the drought from January to April. The evaporation paradox is studied over the MP. The results show that the variation in evaporation is consistent with that of total precipitation, and the surface temperature will promote an increase in evaporation and potential evaporation. This study reveals that global warming, desertification and increased surface net radiation contribute to the increase in potential evaporation and reduced volumetric soil water, which together contribute to drought.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030685","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,1]],"date-time":"2022-02-01T22:16:18Z","timestamp":1643753778000},"page":"685","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Influence of Energy and Water Cycle Key Parameters on Drought in Mongolian Plateau during 1979\u20132020"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7136-4181","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jie","family":"He","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7336-8872","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Husi","family":"Letu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yonghui","family":"Lei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1175-8207","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Enliang","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geography Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shanhu","family":"Bao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geography Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3562-2323","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yongqiang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gegen","family":"Tana","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuhai","family":"Bao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geography Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4082","DOI":"10.1002\/joc.6444","article-title":"Spatiotemporal distributions of cloud radiative forcing and response to cloud parameters over the Mongolian Plateau during 2003\u20132017","volume":"40","author":"Bao","year":"2020","journal-title":"Int. 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