The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Understanding: the Drought Phenomenon: The Role of Definitions
Abstract
The occurrence of widespread, severe drought in Africa, India, North America, China, the USSR, Australia, and western Europe has once again underscored the vulnerability of developed and developing societies to drought. The occurrence of severe drought during 1982–83 is shown in figure 1. These recent droughts have emphasized the need for more research on the causes as well as the impacts of drought and the need for additional planning to help mitigate the possible worst effects of future droughts. Drought has been the subject of a great deal of systematic study, particularly reconstructions of drought history, computations of drought frequency, and to a lesser extent, investigations of first-, second-, and even third-order impacts of drought on society.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
(1993) · Cited by 7,699
Watts, N., Amann, M., Arnell, N., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Belesova, K., Berry, H., Bouley, T., Boykoff, M., Byass, P., Cai, W., et al. (2018) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32594-7 · Cited by 915
Spinoni, J., Naumann, G., Carrao, H., Barbosa, P., & Vogt, J. (2014) · International Journal of Climatology · doi:10.1002/joc.3875 · Cited by 803
Otkin, J. A., Svoboda, M., Hunt, E. D., Ford, T. W., Anderson, M. C., Hain, C., & Basara, J. B. (2018) · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · doi:10.1175/bams-d-17-0149.1 · Cited by 689
Seasonal Drought Prediction: Advances, Challenges, and Future Prospects
Hao, Z., Singh, V. P., & Xia, Y. (2018) · Reviews of Geophysics · doi:10.1002/2016rg000549 · Cited by 607
Metadata
- Authors
- Wilhite, D. A., & Glantz, M. H.
- Venue
- Water International
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1985-01
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 111-120
- ISSN
- 0250-8060 (ISSN-L)
- 1941-1707
- OpenAlex
- W1964386488
- Cited by
- 3,154
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 4.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Understanding: the Drought Phenomenon: The Role of Definitions. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1080/02508068508686328
- The paper
- Wilhite, D. A., & Glantz, M. H. (1985). Understanding: the Drought Phenomenon: The Role of Definitions. Water International. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508068508686328
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
