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Characteristics of global and regional drought, 1950-2000: Analysis of soil moisture data from off-line simulation of the terrestrial hydrologic cycle

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (2007) 112(17)
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD008288
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Drought occurrence is analyzed over global land areas for 1950-2000 using soil moisture data from a simulation of the terrestrial water cycle with the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) land surface model, which is forced by an observation based meteorological data set. A monthly drought index based on percentile soil moisture values relative to the 50-year climatology is analyzed in terms of duration, intensity and severity at global and regional scales. Short-term droughts (

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Sheffield, J., & Wood, E. F. (2007). Characteristics of global and regional drought, 1950-2000: Analysis of soil moisture data from off-line simulation of the terrestrial hydrologic cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 112(17). https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JD008288

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