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Review / Synthèse

Droughts and Mega-Droughts

Jialin Lin1 Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Taotao Qian1 Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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Siegfried Schubert2 Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA GSFC, and Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, USA
Pages 245-306 | Received 19 Apr 2022, Accepted 16 May 2022, Published online: 13 Jul 2022

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