Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models
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Two recent studies published in Nature Climate Change and Nature reached opposing conclusions about whether there are noticeable changes in drought trends due to climate change.
“Two recent studies published in Nature Climate Change 25 and Nature 26 came to opposing conclusions about whether there are noticeable changes in drought trends as a result of climate change.”
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- Authors
- Dai, A.
- Affiliations
- NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dai, Aiguo
- ORCID
- Dai, Aiguo
- Venue
- Nature Climate Change
- Published
- 2012-08-05
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 52-58
- ISSN
- 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
- 1758-6798
- OpenAlex
- W2169245074
- Cited by
- 4,762
- References
- 35
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- FWCI
- 93.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2013-01-29)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature Climate Change (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Keywords
- drought, aridity trends, global warming, climate model projections, ENSO, sea surface temperature variability, natural climate variability, soil moisture, precipitation minus evaporation, drought indices, river discharge, greenhouse gas forcing, model evaluation against observations
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