First Issue of Water Scarcity and Drought

Steven Quiring

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First Issue of Water Scarcity and Drought

Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano^{1, *}

,

Yves Tramblay²

,

Conor Murphy³

,

Anahí Ocampo-Melgar⁴

,

Huade Guan⁵

,

Jonathan Spinoni⁶

,

Jose A. Marengo⁷

,

Subimal Ghosh⁸

,

Yuting Yang⁹

,

Sorin Cheval¹⁰

,

Aristeidis Koutroulis¹¹

,

Amber Wutich¹²

,

Kerstin Stahl¹³

,

Valentin Aich^{14, 15}

,

Santiago Beguería¹⁶

,

Jamie Hannaford¹⁷

,

Steven Quiring¹⁸

Author Information

Submitted: 29 Aug 2024 | Accepted: 2 Sept 2024 | Published: 6 Sept 2024

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Vicente-Serrano, S. M., Tramblay, Y., Murphy, C., Ocampo-Melgar, A., Guan, H., Spinoni, J., Marengo, J. A., Ghosh, S., Yang, Y., Cheval, S., Koutroulis, A., Wutich, A., Stahl, K., Aich, V., Beguería, S., Hannaford, J., & Quiring, S. (2024). First Issue of Water Scarcity and Drought. Water Scarcity and Drought, 1(1), 1. https://www.sciltp.com/journals/wsd/articles/2504000515

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