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Definition: *
A period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged so that the lack of water causes a serious hydrologic imbalance (such as crop damage, water supply shortage) in the affected area.
* Note: Definition is not available for the current language
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Scope note:
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Groups:
ATMOSFEER (lucht,klimaat)
Themes:
klimaat
natuurlijke processen
Other relations:
Has exact match
AGROVOC: Drought
EuroVoc: drought
Wikipedia article
Drought
Arabic: جفاف
Basque: lehorte
Bulgarian: Суша
Catalan: sequera
Chinese: 干旱
Croatian: suša
Czech: sucho
Danish: tørke
English: drought
English (US): drought
Estonian: põud
Finnish: kuivuus (pitkäaikainen)
French: sécheresse
German: Dürre
Greek: ξηρασία (ανομβρία)
Hungarian: szárazság/aszály
Irish: triomach
Italian: siccità
Latvian: sausums
Lithuanian: sausra
Maltese: nixfa
Norwegian: tørke
Polish: susza
Portuguese: secas
Romanian: secetă
Russian: засуха
Slovak: sucho
Slovenian: suša
Spanish: sequías
Swedish: torka
Turkish: kuraklık
Ukrainian: посуха
Concept URL: <http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/2347>