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Multiscale Dynamics of Drought Propagation in a Complex Basin

  • Jinshi Shao,
  • Xiaojun She,
  • Yihua Zhang,
  • Meng Liu and
  • Li Shuai

28 April 2026

Analyzing the propagation dynamics from meteorological drought (MD) to hydrological drought (HD) is essential for sustainable water resource management, particularly under climate change. This study analyzed the multidimensional propagation character...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rainfall Patterns and Flood and Drought Risk: Assessing Vulnerabilities, Building Resilience and Enhancing Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,844 Views
17 Pages

9 April 2025

It is important to comprehend the evolution of drought characteristics and the relationships between different kinds of droughts for effective drought mitigation and early warnings. The study area was the Pearl River Basin, where spatiotemporal chang...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,323 Views
26 Pages

Propagation Dynamics from Meteorological Drought to GRACE-Based Hydrological Drought and Its Influencing Factors

  • Aihong Cui,
  • Jianfeng Li,
  • Qiming Zhou,
  • Honglin Zhu,
  • Huizeng Liu,
  • Chao Yang,
  • Guofeng Wu and
  • Qingquan Li

10 March 2024

Gaining a comprehensive understanding of the characteristics and propagation of precipitation-based meteorological drought to terrestrial water storage (TWS)-derived hydrological drought is of the utmost importance. This study aims to disentangle the...

(This article belongs to the Topic Hydrology and Water Resources Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,224 Views
22 Pages

18 October 2022

Drought is a phenomenon that is caused by several factors and can be divided into meteorological drought, agricultural drought, hydrological drought, and socioeconomic drought. In this study, the characteristics of propagating from meteorological dro...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,466 Views
19 Pages

6 March 2024

The Nile River Basin (NRB) has experienced a notable rise in drought episodes in recent decades. The propagation of meteorological, agricultural, and groundwater drought dynamics in the NRB was investigated in this study. The following drought indice...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring Ecohydrology with Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
969 Views
20 Pages

6 December 2025

Southern China, despite its humid climate, has increasingly faced severe hydrological droughts (HDs) in recent decades, highlighting the complexity of drought propagation. Most existing studies primarily examined the relationship between drought prop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Hydrology and Water Resources Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,038 Views
25 Pages

Characteristics and Lag Time of Meteorological Drought Propagation to Hydrological Drought in the Haihe River Basin

  • Kuan Liu,
  • Buliao Guan,
  • Jiaqi Zhai,
  • Qingming Wang,
  • Yong Zhao,
  • Yankun Cao and
  • Longlong Zhang

3 June 2025

Understanding the propagation dynamics from meteorological to hydrological droughts, particularly in regions heavily influenced by human activities, is essential for the effective monitoring and prevention of hydrological drought risks. This study fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Water Management in Rapid Urbanization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,613 Views
20 Pages

Understanding the Propagation of Meteorological Drought to Groundwater Drought: A Case Study of the North China Plain

  • Yuyin Chen,
  • Yongqiang Zhang,
  • Jing Tian,
  • Zixuan Tang,
  • Longhao Wang and
  • Xuening Yang

4 February 2024

As extreme climate events become more common with global warming, groundwater is increasingly vital for combating long-term drought and ensuring socio-economic and ecological stability. Currently, the mechanism of meteorological drought propagation t...

(This article belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,620 Views
26 Pages

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Drought Propagation in the Loess Plateau: A Geomorphological Perspective

  • Yu Zhang,
  • Hongbo Zhang,
  • Zhaoxia Ye,
  • Jiaojiao Lyu,
  • Huan Ma and
  • Xuedi Zhang

19 August 2025

The Loess Plateau frequently endures droughts, and the propagation process has grown more intricate due to the interplay of climate change and human activities. This study developed the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) and t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Watershed Hydrology and Management under Changing Climate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
6,531 Views
19 Pages

Impact of Climate Change and Land-Use on the Propagation from Meteorological Drought to Hydrological Drought in the Eastern Qilian Mountains

  • Junju Zhou,
  • Qiaoqiao Li,
  • Lanying Wang,
  • Li Lei,
  • Meihua Huang,
  • Juan Xiang,
  • Wei Feng,
  • Yaru Zhao,
  • Dongxiang Xue and
  • Guofeng Zhu
  • + 2 authors

2 August 2019

As one of the most destructive and costly natural disasters, drought has far-reaching negative effects on agriculture, water resources, the environment, and human life. Scientific understanding of propagation from meteorological to hydrological droug...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Changes in Drought Frequency and Severity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,035 Views
23 Pages

A clear grasp of the interconnections among various drought types forms the foundation for effective drought mitigation policy-making. However, current research on the propagation of groundwater drought (GD) remains relatively limited. Therefore, thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agriculture and Global Climate Change: Threats, Challenges and Adaptations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,264 Views
26 Pages

29 November 2024

Drought propagation is a complex process, and understanding the propagation mechanisms of meteorological drought to soil drought is crucial for early warning, disaster prevention, and mitigation. This study focuses on eight tributaries in the upper r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,084 Views
25 Pages

Propagation of Meteorological Drought to Agricultural and Hydrological Droughts in the Tropical Lancang–Mekong River Basin

  • Ganlin Feng,
  • Yaoliang Chen,
  • Lamin R. Mansaray,
  • Hongfeng Xu,
  • Aoni Shi and
  • Yanling Chen

9 December 2023

In the past several decades, drought events have occurred frequently around the world. However, research on the propagation of drought events has not been adequately explored. This study investigated the drought propagation process from meteorologica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring the Variations and Interplay of Drought and Heatwaves: Uncovering the Associated Mechanisms and Impacts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,407 Views
17 Pages

19 September 2022

The analysis of drought propagation has garnered mounting attention in the changing global environment. The current studies tend to focus on the propagation characteristics from meteorological to hydrological drought in rivers. Lakes, despite being a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrological Responses under Climate Changes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,619 Views
24 Pages

Study on the Probability of Meteorological-to-Hydrological Drought Propagation Based on a Bayesian Network

  • Xiangyang Zhang,
  • Huiliang Wang,
  • Zhilei Yu,
  • Dengming Yan,
  • Ruxue Liu,
  • Simin Liu,
  • Yujia Zhu,
  • Yifan Chen and
  • Zening Wu

20 February 2025

With accelerating climate change, droughts have increased in frequency and exerted a substantial influence on socioeconomic factors. Under conditions of insufficient precipitation and high temperatures, meteorological droughts have the potential to d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,983 Views
19 Pages

The Propagation Characteristics of Meteorological Drought to Vegetation Drought Based on Three-Dimensional Clustering Algorithm in China

  • Shikai Gao,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Ruyi Men,
  • Shaofeng Yan,
  • Zipeng Wang,
  • Hexin Lai,
  • Yanbin Li and
  • Wenxian Guo

10 September 2024

The spatiotemporal continuity characteristics of drought are the basis for analyzing its spatial migration and evolution, which is significant for mitigation and early warning of drought. The aim of this paper is to identify meteorological and vegeta...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,624 Views
16 Pages

9 September 2022

Drought is a multifaceted natural disaster that can impact the ecological environment, crop yield, and social economy through the hydrological cycle process. Meteorological drought occurs first, which then propagates to other forms. This study presen...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
840 Views
26 Pages

Spatiotemporal Evolution and Propagation of Meteorological Drought and Agricultural Drought: A Case Study of the Western Loess Plateau of China

  • Huimin Hou,
  • Di Lu,
  • Dongmeng Zhou,
  • Changjie Chen,
  • Junxing Bai,
  • Feng Guo,
  • Haohao Li,
  • Zhiqiang Bao,
  • Mingyang Qin and
  • Yufei Cheng
  • + 2 authors

27 February 2026

Research on the evolutionary patterns and propagation mechanisms of different drought types is of great significance for regional water resources management and the prevention and control of agricultural drought risks. Taking the arid region in the w...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
6,904 Views
22 Pages

20 July 2021

Understanding the propagation from meteorological to hydrological drought is crucial for hydrological drought monitoring and forecasting. In this study, daily precipitation and streamflow data of 16 sub-catchments in the Huaihe River Basin from 1980...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human and Climate Impacts on Drought Dynamics and Vulnerability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,275 Views
20 Pages

8 July 2022

The characteristics of the drought propagation from meteorological drought (MD) to agricultural drought (AD) differ in various climatic and underlying surface conditions. However, how these factors affect the process of drought propagation is still u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Eco-Hydrology Processes under Ongoing Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,174 Views
17 Pages

Spatial–Temporal Patterns and Propagation Dynamics of Ecological Drought in the North China Plain

  • Zezhong Zhang,
  • Hexin Lai,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Kai Feng,
  • Qingqing Qi and
  • Yanbin Li

11 May 2022

With the increasingly prominent ecological environmental problems, the ecological drought phenomenon will become the focus of drought research. The spatial–temporal pattern of ecological drought and its complicated propagation dynamics are stil...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,918 Views
21 Pages

Propagation Dynamics from Meteorological to Agricultural Drought in Northwestern China: Key Influencing Factors

  • Kai Feng,
  • Haobo Yuan,
  • Yingying Wang,
  • Yanbin Li,
  • Xiaowan Wang,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Xiaoling Su and
  • Zezhong Zhang

2 September 2024

Meteorological and agricultural droughts are inherently correlated, whereas the propagation mechanism between them remains unclear in Northwestern China. Investigating the linkages between these drought types and identifying the potential influencing...

(This article belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,234 Views
14 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Propagation of Meteoro-Hydrological Drought in Yalong River Basin

  • Kui Zhu,
  • Yang Xu,
  • Fan Lu,
  • Xueying Sun,
  • Mingxing Gao,
  • Xuhang Han,
  • Dongsheng Li and
  • Ming Jiang

8 March 2023

Based on the meteorological and hydrological data of the Yalong River Basin from 1960 to 2019, meteorological and hydrological droughts were analyzed using the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) and standardized runoff index (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vulnerability of Mountainous Water Resources and Hydrological Regimes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,996 Views
17 Pages

16 May 2024

Drought is one of the most frequent types of natural disasters in the world, and it has been classified into several different categories. Generally, meteorological drought is considered to be the beginning of a drought disaster, while socio-economic...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,459 Views
21 Pages

15 July 2024

Understanding the propagation characteristics and driving factors from meteorological drought to hydrological drought is essential for alleviating drought and for early warning systems regarding drought. This study focused on the Weihe River basin (W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,316 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Scale Analysis of Agricultural Drought Propagation on the Iberian Peninsula Using Non-Parametric Indices

  • Marco Possega,
  • Matilde García-Valdecasas Ojeda and
  • Sonia Raquel Gámiz-Fortis

27 May 2023

Understanding how drought propagates from meteorological to agricultural drought requires further research into the combined effects of soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and precipitation, especially through the analysis of long-term data. To this e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impacts of Climate Change on Hydrology and Water Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
465 Views
31 Pages

The propagation of meteorological drought into agricultural drought is a critical stage in drought hazard development and risk accumulation. Characterizing its spatiotemporal evolution, propagation processes, and triggering conditions is therefore es...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,453 Views
28 Pages

Analysis of the Propagation Characteristics of Meteorological Drought to Hydrological Drought and Their Joint Effects on Low-Flow Drought Variability in the Oum Er Rbia Watershed, Morocco

  • Ismaguil Hanadé Houmma,
  • Abdessamad Hadri,
  • Abdelghani Boudhar,
  • Ismail Karaoui,
  • Sabir Oussaoui,
  • El Mahdi El Khalki,
  • Abdelghani Chehbouni and
  • Christophe Kinnard

15 January 2025

Analysis of the temporal relationship between meteorological drought and hydrological drought is crucial in monitoring water resource availability. This study examined the linear and lagged relationships of the spread of meteorological drought to hyd...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earth Observation in Support of Sustainable Water Resources Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
120 Views
29 Pages

8 October 2026

Drought propagates from atmospheric water deficits into root-zone soil–moisture stress, yet the extent to which warming will alter the severity and speed of this transition in cold, semi-arid regions remains poorly quantified, and most propagat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Prospects in Climate-Smart Soil Management)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,040 Views
7 Pages

Drought is a natural phenomenon that is controlled by different factors such as natural climate and catchment controls, and in many worldwide regions, it is now driven by human activities (i.e., reservoirs, irrigation, groundwater abstractions). Rese...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 7th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
497 Views
25 Pages

Regionalizing Meteorological-to-Agricultural Drought Propagation for Agricultural Risk Management Using Event Metrics and Explainable Machine Learning

  • Haofang Yan,
  • Rongyang Wang,
  • Chuan Zhang,
  • Ziyuan Qin,
  • Desheng Zhang,
  • Zhen Zheng,
  • Hui Wu and
  • Kai Zhang

Developing context-specific drought regionalization is crucial for targeted risk management, as drought evolves as a cascading hazard driven by complex land–atmosphere interactions rather than isolated climatic anomalies. However, conventional...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
285 Views
25 Pages

6 August 2026

Drought early warning is important for reducing agricultural production risks and ensuring regional water security. However, existing warning systems often focus on drought propagation probabilities and average propagation times, with insufficient at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
667 Views
19 Pages

Drought events have become more frequent worldwide under ongoing climate change. However, how precipitation deficits evolve into runoff deficits across contrasting dry and humid climate regions, and which factors control this transition, remains insu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assessing Hydroclimate, Environmental, and Ecosystem Impacts of Anthropogenic and Climatic Changes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,655 Views
21 Pages

Drought Propagation in Semi-Arid River Basins in Latin America: Lessons from Mexico to the Southern Cone

  • Melanie Oertel,
  • Francisco Javier Meza,
  • Jorge Gironás,
  • Christopher A. Scott,
  • Facundo Rojas and
  • Nicolás Pineda-Pablos

2 November 2018

Detecting droughts as early as possible is important in avoiding negative impacts on economy, society, and environment. To improve drought monitoring, we studied drought propagation (i.e., the temporal manifestation of a precipitation deficit on soil...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,859 Views
13 Pages

13 October 2022

Based on long-term (>30 years) monthly streamflow data from two catchments with different hydrological features, i.e., snowmelt-driven in Harp Lake, south-central, Canada and rainfall-driven in Dongjiang river, south China, the differences in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges of Hydrological Drought Monitoring and Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,637 Views
23 Pages

27 November 2023

Revealing the mechanism of hydrological and agricultural drought has been challenging and vital in the environment under extreme weather and water resource shortages. To explore the evolution process from meteorological to hydrological and agricultur...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,909 Views
19 Pages

9 November 2023

Investigating systematic meteorological–agricultural–hydrological drought propagation within an integrated watershed framework is crucial yet challenging for advancing robust early warning systems and targeted resilience strategies. To ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,134 Views
15 Pages

Investigating the Effect of Climate Change on Drought Propagation in the Tarim River Basin Using Multi-Model Ensemble Projections

  • Xiaoyun Ding,
  • Yang Yu,
  • Meilin Yang,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Lingyun Zhang,
  • Zengkun Guo,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Ireneusz Mailik,
  • Wistuba Malgorzata and
  • Ruide Yu

30 December 2023

Recent studies on China’s arid and semi-arid regions, particularly the Tarim River Basin (TRB), have shown an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events. This research examines the link between meteorological droughts, as...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,264 Views
28 Pages

18 October 2024

As the global climate changes and droughts become more frequent, understanding the characteristics and propagation dynamics of drought is critical for monitoring and early warning. This study utilized the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecosystem, Environment and Climate Change in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,309 Views
19 Pages

7 February 2022

Droughts grow concurrently in space and time; however, their spatiotemporal propagation is still not fully studied. In this study, drought propagation and spatiotemporal characteristics were studied in northern, northeastern, and central Thailand (NN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrological Responses under Climate Changes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,878 Views
19 Pages

Time Lags Between Meteorological and Hydrological Droughts: Evaluating Indicator Scales and Propagation Patterns

  • Giovana Cristina Santos de Medeiros,
  • Samiria Maria Oliveira da Silva,
  • Ályson Brayner Sousa Estácio,
  • Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart and
  • Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho

26 October 2025

The hydrological response to meteorological drought is often nonlinear, due to physiographic features and human activities, necessitating methodologies that surpass simple drought indices. This study investigates whether drought propagation can be st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Warming and Extreme Drought)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,071 Views
15 Pages

18 September 2020

Drought is one of the most destructive natural hazards and results in negative effects on the environment, agriculture, economics, and society. A meteorological drought originates from atmospheric components, while a hydrological drought is influence...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Meteorological Extremes in Korea: Prediction, Assessment, and Impact)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,120 Views
16 Pages

Drought Propagation in Brazilian Biomes Revealed by Remote Sensing

  • Júlia Brusso Rossi,
  • Anderson Ruhoff,
  • Ayan Santos Fleischmann and
  • Leonardo Laipelt

12 January 2023

Drought events have been reported in all Brazilian regions every year, evolving slowly over time and large areas, and largely impacting agriculture, hydropower production, and water supplies. In the last two decades, major drought events have occurre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of the Amazon Region)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,541 Views
35 Pages

31 October 2025

As global climate change intensifies, understanding drought mechanisms is crucial for managing water resources and agriculture. This study employs the Standardized Precipitation–Actual Evapotranspiration Index (SPAEI), Standardized Runoff Index...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Resources Management Under Uncertainty and Climate Change (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,086 Views
21 Pages

10 August 2023

The vegetation drought phenomenon will reduce the amount of water available to the vegetation system, change the ecological and hydrological cycles of plants, and affect the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem in various forms. Therefore, research on t...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,691 Views
17 Pages

Accelerated Atmospheric to Hydrological Spread of Drought in the Yangtze River Basin under Climate

  • Chengyuan Zhang,
  • Zhiming Han,
  • Shuo Wang,
  • Jiankun Wang,
  • Chenfeng Cui and
  • Junrong Liu

18 August 2024

Persistent droughts pose a threat to agricultural production, and the changing environment worsens the risk of drought exposure. Understanding the propagation of drought in changing environments and assessing possible impact factors can help in the e...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Multi-Scale Geographic Environmental Monitoring: Theory, Methodology and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,132 Views
28 Pages

The Spread of Multiple Droughts in Different Seasons and Its Dynamic Changes

  • Shuang Zhu,
  • Wenying Huang,
  • Xiangang Luo,
  • Jun Guo and
  • Zhe Yuan

2 August 2023

Investigating the propagation and influencing mechanism that transitions a meteorological drought to a hydrological drought in a changing environment is crucial for understanding the formation process and mechanism of hydrological drought. Furthermor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Platform Hydrometeorological Monitoring and Analysis Using Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,091 Views
21 Pages

Analysis of Drought Progression Physiognomies in South Africa

  • Joel Ondego Botai,
  • Christina M. Botai,
  • Jaco P. de Wit,
  • Masinde Muthoni and
  • Abiodun M. Adeola

11 February 2019

The spatial-temporal variability of drought characteristics and propagation mechanisms in the hydrological cycle is a pertinent topic to policymakers and to the diverse scientific community. This study reports on the analysis of drought characteristi...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,056 Views
19 Pages

Exogenous Application of Glycine Betaine to Passiflora edulis Sims f. flavicarpa to Mitigate Drought Stress on Two Propagation Methods

  • Leonardo de Almeida Oliveira,
  • Nga Thi Thu Nguyen,
  • Nasratullah Habibi,
  • Maryam Dabirimirhosseinloo,
  • Naoki Terada,
  • Atsushi Sanada and
  • Kaihei Koshio

8 September 2025

Glycine betaine (GB) is a compatible solute that enhances plant tolerance to abiotic stresses, yet its role in fruit crops remains insufficiently explored. This study assessed whether GB improves drought tolerance in Passiflora edulis Sims f. flavica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latest Advances in Plant Abiotic Stress)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,836 Views
20 Pages

30 July 2018

Despite the importance of the interaction between soil moisture and vegetation dynamics to understand the complex nature of drought, few land reanalyses explicitly simulate vegetation growth and senescence. In this study, I provide a new land reanaly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assimilation of Remote Sensing Data into Earth System Models)

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