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Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States

Overview of attention for article published in Geophysical Research Letters, April 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#16 of 25,900)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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4 blogs
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Article details
Title
Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States
Published in
Geophysical Research Letters, April 2021
DOI 10.1029/2020gl092293
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 148 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 28 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 16%
Student > Master 9 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 5%
Student > Bachelor 6 4%
Other 15 10%
Unknown 59 40%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 26 18%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 24 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 9%
Engineering 9 6%
Psychology 3 2%
Other 6 4%
Unknown 67 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1533. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 July 2025.
All research outputs
#9,110
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from Geophysical Research Letters
#16
of 25,900 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#373
of 483,732 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Geophysical Research Letters
#2
of 393 outputs
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