How Can We Measure Droughts and Deluges? Weigh the Planet.
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Scientists have long cautioned that warming temperatures would lead to wetter and drier global extremes — increasingly severe rainfall, more intense droughts. A new study shows where that may already be happening.
Global intensity of
wet and dry extremes
Global intensity of
wet and dry extremes
Global intensity of
wet and dry extremes
Global intensity of
wet and dry extremes
Global intensity of
wet and dry extremes
Source: Rodell and Li, Nature Water (2023), based on analysis of NASA Grace and Grace-FO data.
Note: Multi-year events are assigned to the year with peak intensity.
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