Abstract: Hydrological drought events have very different causes and effects. Classifying these events into distinct types can be useful for both science and management. We propose a hydrological drought typology that is based on governing drought propagation processes derived from catchment-scale drought analysis. In this typology six hydrological drought types are distinguished, i.e. (i) <i>classical rainfall deficit drought</i>, (ii) <i>rain-to-snow-season drought</i>, (iii) <i>wet-to-dry-season drought</i>, (iv) &l...
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