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Drought indices revisited – improving and testing of drought indices in a simulation of the last two millennia for Europe Cover

Drought indices revisited – improving and testing of drought indices in a simulation of the last two millennia for Europe

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2017.1296226 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 1296226 - 1296226
Submitted on: Jul 12, 2016
Accepted on: Jan 17, 2017
Published on: Jan 1, 2017
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
drought indices,
potential evopotranspiration,
Europe,
regional modelling

© 2017 Christoph C. Raible, Oliver Barenbold, Juan Jose Gomez-Navarro, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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