Fig. 3: Annual and seasonal agricultural flash drought frequencies.
From: The prevalent life cycle of agricultural flash droughts
a Annual and b seasonal frequency of agricultural flash drought events (number of events per decade) from 1960–2020. Meteorological seasons are December-January-February (DJF), March-April-May (MAM), June-July-August (JJA), and September-October-November (SON). Hotspots are highlighted with boxes, including northern South America (NSA), central-eastern United States of America (CEUSA), central-eastern Europe (CEEu) and southern Russia (SRus), southern China (SCh), southeastern South America (SESA), central-western Africa (CWAf), India (In), and southeastern Asia (SEAs). c Annual cycles of the area-averaged agricultural flash drought frequency in each hotspot.
