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flash drought: a standalone construct

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Climatology

drought that develops within weeks as heat and low rainfall quickly dry soils, giving little warning.

In climatology, flash drought refers to drought that develops within weeks as heat and low rainfall quickly dry soils, giving little warning. This meaning comes from Otkin (2018) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.[1]

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References

Otkin, J. A., Svoboda, M., Hunt, E. D., Ford, T. W., Anderson, M. C., Hain, C., & Basara, J. B. (2018). Flash Droughts: A Review and Assessment of the Challenges Imposed by Rapid-Onset Droughts in the United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99(5), 911-919. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-17-0149.1

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