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The impracticality of a universal drought definition
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lloyd-Hughes, B.
- Venue
- Theoretical and Applied Climatology
- Published
- 2013-10-19
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 607-611
- ISSN
- 0066-6424 (ISSN-L)
- 0177-798X
- 1434-4483
- OpenAlex
- W2170007746
- Cited by
- 382
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 7.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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