DeCS

Descriptor English:

Dry Season

Descriptor Spanish:

Estación Seca

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	estación seca
Scope note:	En un clima tropical, periodo del año caracterizado por la ausencia o extremada escasez de lluvia. (Traducción libre del original: Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)

Descriptor Portuguese:

Estação Seca

Descriptor French:

Saison Sèche

Tree number(s):

SP8.190.270.248.562

Scope note:

In a tropical climate, period of the year characterized by very low or absence of rainfall (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)

Allowable Qualifiers:

No qualifiers

Tropical Climate MeSH

DeCS ID:

35033

Unique ID:

DDCS035033

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PUBLIC HEALTH

Natural Threats [SP8.190.270]

Natural Threats

Climatological Threats [SP8.190.270.248]

Climatological Threats

Dry Season [SP8.190.270.248.562]

Dry Season

Dryness [SP8.190.270.248.604]

Dryness

Dry Season - Preferred

Concept UI	FD00060895
Scope note	In a tropical climate, period of the year characterized by very low or absence of rainfall (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Preferred term	Dry Season

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