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Assessing the contributions of East African and West Pacific warming to the 2014 boreal spring East African drought

Christopher C. Funk·Shraddhanand Shukla·Andrew Hoell·Ben Livneh
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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.

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Source-reported bounding extent: -10.055402736564224° to 32.76880048488168° latitude; 20.830078125° to 52.119140625° longitude. This indicates report coverage, not an exact sampling location. View area on OpenStreetMap.

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Christopher C. Funk, Shraddhanand Shukla, Andrew Hoell, Ben Livneh. 2015. Assessing the contributions of East African and West Pacific warming to the 2014 boreal spring East African drought. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70155248

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