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Considering four drought severity classes, time series of drought class transitions were computed and later divided into several sub-periods according to the length of SPI time series. Drought class transitions were calculated to form a 2-dimensional contingency table for each sub-period, which refer to the number of transitions among drought severity classes. Two-dimensional log-linear models were fitted to these contingency tables and an ANOVA-like inference was then performed in order to investigate differences relative to drought class transitions among those sub-periods, which were considered as treatments of only one factor. The application of ANOVA-like inference to these data allowed to compare the sub-periods in terms of probabilities of transition between drought classes, which were used to detect a possible trend in droughts frequency and severity. Results for a number of locations show some similarity between alternate sub-periods and differences between consecutive ones regarding the persistency of severe\/extreme and sometimes moderate droughts. In global terms, results do not support the assumption of a trend for progressive aggravation of drought occurrence during the last century, but rather suggest the existence of long duration cycles.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5194\/hess-16-3011-2012","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,8,28]],"date-time":"2012-08-28T05:42:17Z","timestamp":1346132537000},"page":"3011-3028","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["Are drought occurrence and severity aggravating? A study on SPI drought class transitions using log-linear models and ANOVA-like inference"],"prefix":"10.5194","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"E. E.","family":"Moreira","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"J. T.","family":"Mexia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"L. 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