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Abstract
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.
Study Area
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Assessing the contributions of East African and West Pacific warming to the 2014 boreal spring East African drought |
| Series title | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Year Published | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Meteorological Society |
| Publisher location | Boston, MA |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 6 p. |
| Larger Work Title | Special Report: Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective |
| First page | S77 |
| Last page | S82 |
| Country | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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