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The 1988 US drought linked to anomalous sea surface temperature
- States that the 1988 drought in the United States has been widely reported, not least as an indicator of the reality of the "greenhouse effect"
- Studies 30-day forecasts of the atmospheric flow over the United States using a complex numerical weather-prediction model initialized with data from May 1987 and May 1988
- Conducts an experiment with 1988 initial conditions and 1987 sea surface temperatures
- The results indicate that much of the difference between the 1987 and 1988 forecasts was associated with interannual variability in sea surface temperature
- These results suggest that the US drought was linked to anomalous oceanic conditions in the tropical Pacific
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