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Soil Moisture Drought in China, 1950–2006

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Regional atmospheric anomalies responsible for the 2009-2010 severe drought in China

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Dam not sole cause of Chinese drought

(2011) X. X. Lu et al.   NATURE

The next dust bowl

(2011) Joseph Romm   NATURE

Interdecadal modulation of El Niño amplitude during the past millennium

(2011) Jinbao Li et al.   Nature Climate Change

Dryness/wetness variations in ten large river basins of China during the first 50 years of the 21st century

(2010) Jian Qing Zhai et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Severe Drought Puts Spotlight on Chinese Dams

(2010) R. Stone   SCIENCE

Asian Monsoon Failure and Megadrought During the Last Millennium

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Spatial Variation and Trends in PDSI and SPI Indices and Their Relation to Streamflow in 10 Large Regions of China

(2009) Jianqing Zhai et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

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Hydrological trend analysis in the Yellow River basin using a distributed hydrological model

(2009) Zhentao Cong et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Runoff characteristics of the Changjiang River during 2006: Effect of extreme drought and the impounding of the Three Gorges Dam

(2008) Zhijun Dai et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Simulation of extreme precipitation over the Yangtze River Basin using Wakeby distribution

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