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. 2016 Sep 8;6:33130. doi: 10.1038/srep33130

Figure 2. Drought severity over the Amazon rainforests during the three strong EN events.

Figure 2

(a) Monthly time series of percentage of the area of the Amazonian rainforests affected by moderate, severe and extreme drought as indicated by the scPDSI. From left to right, results are presented for the three EN events in 1982–1983, 1997–1998, and 2015–2016. (b) Spatial patterns of scPDSI for the JFM season in 1983, 1998, and 2016. Data visualisations produced using IDL v8 (Exelis Visual Information Solutions, Boulder, Colorado).