Faster, longer, wider: flash drought is accelerating in three dimentions (IMAGE)

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Faster, longer, wider: flash drought is accelerating in three dimentions

Caption

South America and southern Africa are hotspots vulnerability (brown), where flash droughts are setting in faster, staying longer and affecting wider areas. Other regions are experiencing rising trends in one or two of these flash drought dimensions.

 

Credit

Neelim and Hain (2024) Geophysical Research Letters https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109657

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