Droughts in the United States
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title:
Droughts in the United States
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The United States' contiguous western and especially southwestern region has experienced widespread drought since about year 2000. Below normal precipitation leads to drought, and is caused by an above average persistence of high pressure over the affected area. Changes in the track of extratropical cyclones, which can occur during climate cycles such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, as well as the North Atlantic Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and Atlantic multidecadal os
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_in_the_United_States
date created:
2008-07-15T06:03:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T05:17:09Z
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