Estimation of regional meteorological aridity and drought characteristics in Baluchistan province, Pakistan

• Muhammad Rafiq ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Rafiq, Yanpei Cheng

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Environmental Evolution and Ecological Construction of Hebei Province, Hebei Normal University, 050024, Shijiazhuang, PR China

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• Yue Cong Li ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: lyczhli@aliyun.com (YCL); ghani.rahman@uog.edu.pk (GR)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Environmental Evolution and Ecological Construction of Hebei Province, Hebei Normal University, 050024, Shijiazhuang, PR China

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• Yanpei Cheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Rafiq, Yanpei Cheng

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Departments of Information and Mapping Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, CAGS, Beijing, China

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• Ghani Rahman ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lyczhli@aliyun.com (YCL); ghani.rahman@uog.edu.pk (GR)

  Affiliation Department of Geography University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5091-2337

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• Yuanjie Zhao ,

  Roles Formal analysis

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Hebei Normal University China, Shijiazhuang, China

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• Hammed Ullah Khan

  Roles Data curation, Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Geological Survey of Pakistan, Quetta, Pakistan

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