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Linking drought indices to impacts in the Liaoning Province of China
Miaomiao Ma
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Research center on Flood & Drought Disaster Reduction of the
Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Beijing, China
Juan Lv
Research center on Flood & Drought Disaster Reduction of the
Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Beijing, China
Zhicheng Su
Research center on Flood & Drought Disaster Reduction of the
Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Beijing, China
Jamie Hannaford
Center of Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
Hongquan Sun
Research center on Flood & Drought Disaster Reduction of the
Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Beijing, China
Yanping Qu
Research center on Flood & Drought Disaster Reduction of the
Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Beijing, China
Zikang Xing
Research center on Flood & Drought Disaster Reduction of the
Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Beijing, China
State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic
Engineering & College of Hydrology and Water Resources, HOHAI University, Nanjing, China
Lucy Barker
Center of Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
Yaxu Wang
Research center on Flood & Drought Disaster Reduction of the
Ministry of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Beijing, China
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