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Anthropogenic warming in west Pacific likely contributed to the 2014 drought in East Africa
2015-11-05 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: It comes as no surprise to geographer Chris Funk that East Africa has been particularly hard hit with back-to-back droughts this year and last. In fact, he and colleagues at the UC Santa Barbara /U.S. Geological Survey's Climate Hazards Group (CHG) predicted the area's 2014 event based the increasing differential between extremely warm sea surface temperatures in the west and central Pacific Ocean. Now with the same data set, CHG scientists have confirmed not only that this temperature differential...
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