A Review of Twentieth-Century Drought Indices Used in the United States

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

• Publication date

  2002-08-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Physics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1175/1520-0477-83.8.1149
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