The impact of drought climate has the characteristics of long duration, wide range and severe disaster degree.

干旱气候的影响具有持续时间长、范围广、灾害程度重的特点，而干旱指标是衡量干旱气候的标准。

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Distribution of droughts, drought climate, actuality of water supply and demand and outlook of water resources development in Fujian Province are analyzed in details.

分析了福建省干旱分布和气候、水资源供需现状和水资源开发前景。

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Owing to plateau building-up and the warmer of the global climate a, the continuing drought climate will be the main features of the northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in further.

由于高原隆升、全球气候增暖幅度不断增加，气候的持续干旱将是藏北大湖区未来气候的主要特征。

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The fires were fed by dry conditions caused by very hot temperatures and a long drought, which many blame on climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

Pollution,drought and erratic weather patterns caused by climate change have already decimated much of Yemen's farmlands.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Aid groups say 23 million people face starvation in East Africa because of a relentless drought some scientists say may be a result of climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Other key fracking areas like New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are less obviously prone to drought, but climate models predict more frequent and longer heat waves during Northeast and Midwest summers, including severe drought in some regions (as well as more frequent flooding in spring).

FORBES: Can No-Water Fracking Quiet Critics?

Forest fires have been increasing in remote regions of North America during the past decade due to prolonged drought periods and climate variability.

CNN: Canadian forest fires add to U.S. pollution

Lakes and reservoirs provide a range of resource values, including drinking water, irrigation water, navigation, fisheries, tourism, recreation, flood and drought management, climate mediation, as well as having religious and historic values.

UNESCO: Summary