text: **Table 2.**Proxies for flood and drought events used in the HCVI. 
  
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              [html]<thead><tr><td>extreme weather event</td><td>description of proxy</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>average length of flood events</td><td>number of days in which the cumulative daily rainfall excess is positive, compared with the 95th percentile in the 1981 – 2010 average</td></tr><tr><td>average length of drought events</td><td>number of days in which the cumulative daily rainfall deficit is positive, compared with the 20th percentile in the 1981 – 2010 average</td></tr></tbody>
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