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Michael E. Mann, Peter H. Gleick
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published date March 31, 2015
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published date March 31, 2015
Climate change and California drought in the 21st century
- States that climate science is now in a position to “detect” and “attribute” specific impacts and events to anthropogenic climate change
- States that Diffenbaugh et al.[1] now add weight to the accumulating evidence that anthropogenic climatic changes are already influencing the frequency, magnitude, and duration of drought in California
- Shows that the increasing co-occurrence of dry years with warm years raises the risk of drought despite limited evidence of a trend in precipitation itself, highlighting the critical role of elevated temperatures in altering water availability and increasing overall drought intensity and impact
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