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Fields outside Benambra, Australia suffering from drought in 2006.. The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report defines a drought simply as "drier than normal conditions". [1]: 1157 This means that a drought is "a moisture deficit relative to the average water availability at a given location and season".
1934–35 North American drought; 1950s Texas drought; 1983–1985 North American drought; 1988–1990 North American drought; 2002 North American drought; 2006–2008 Southeastern United States drought; 2010–2013 Southern United States and Mexico drought. 2012–2013 North American drought; 2011–2017 California drought; 2012–2013 North ...
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A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Drought , The Drought , or variation , may also refer to: People with the surname
Humanity’s heating of the planet, driven by the burning of fossil fuels and unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases, has become the main driver of worsening droughts in California and the ...
A drought is usually defined as an extended period of weather (usually around 3 weeks) when less than a third of the usual precipitation falls. [4]In the United Kingdom an absolute drought is currently defined "as a period of at least 15 consecutive days when there is less than 0.2 mm (0.008 inches) of rainfall", [4] although before the 1990s a drought was defined as "15 consecutive days with ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
The drought is largely driven by temperature, which increases the rate of evaporation, with some contribution from the lack of precipitation. The several wet years since 2000 were not sufficient to end the drought. Researchers calculated that without climate change-induced evaporation, the precipitation in 2005 would have broken the drought.