The drought of 2010 in the context of historical droughts in the Amazon region
The drought of 2010 in the context of historical droughts in the Amazon region
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Washington, DC: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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English
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Washington, DC: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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The year 2010 featured a widespread drought in the Amazon rain forest, which was more severe than the “once‐in‐a‐century” drought of 2005. Water levels of major Amazon tributaries fell drastically to unprecedented low values, and isolated the floodplain population whose transportation depends upon on local streams which completely dried up. The dro...
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The drought of 2010 in the context of historical droughts in the Amazon region
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_912919975
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_912919975
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0094-8276
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1944-8007
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10.1029/2011GL047436
