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Assessing the contributions of East African and West Pacific warming to the 2014 boreal spring East African drought
November 24, 2015
Anthropogenic warming contributed to the 2014 East African drought by increasing East African and west Pacific temperatures, and increasing the gradient between standardized western and central Pacific SST causing reduced rainfall, evapotranspiration, and soil moisture.
Citation Information
Publication Year
2015
Title
Assessing the contributions of East African and West Pacific warming to the 2014 boreal spring East African drought
Authors
Christopher C. Funk, Shraddhanand Shukla, Andrew Hoell, Ben Livneh