Environmental Science
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Global land becoming drier, but wetter areas within arid regions increasing.

Journal of Agricultural Meteorology
Determination by MODIS satellite-based methods of recent global trends in land surface aridity and degradation
Reiji Kimura, Masao Moriyama

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