Table 1 Regions identified as agricultural flash drought occurrence hotspots

From: The prevalent life cycle of agricultural flash droughts

Hotspot

Acronym

Area-averaged FD frequency

Maximum FD frequency

Southern China

SCh

3.3

12.5

Central-eastern Europe

CEEu

3.2

8.2

India

In

3

9.7

Southeastern South America

SESA

2.9

10.1

Southern Russia

SRus

2.8

8.3

Central-eastern United States of America

CEUSA

2.3

7.7

Southeastern Asia

SEAs

2.3

10.6

Northern South America

NSA

2.1

8.5

Central-western Africa

CWAf

2

8.5

  1. The columns show the acronyms used to identify the agricultural flash drought hotspots and the area-averaged and maximum decadal frequencies of flash droughts (FD) in each hotspot. Even though CEUSA and SRus frequencies are displayed separately, both regions represent a unified hotspot region (see Fig. 3a).
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