The rare extremity of the drought event of 2019 as detected by DEDI (IMAGE)
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Annual evolutions of DEDI averaged over the typical arid region of southwest China (21–26.2° N, 98.3–103.6° E) from April to August 1979–2019. From the long-term time series data, DEDI detected that the drought that occurred in the spring and summer of 2019 can be regarded as a record-breaking extreme event in Yunnan, considering the last 40 years. Figure credit: Xia Zhang.
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