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Synergy of a warm spring and dry summer

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An analysis suggests that high carbon uptake by US land ecosystems during the warm spring of 2012 offset the carbon loss that resulted from severe drought over the summer — and hints that the warm spring could have worsened the drought.

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Figure 1: Seasonal and regional variations of carbon uptake in the continental United States.

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  1. US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Yude Pan is in the Research Unit of Climate, Fire and Carbon Cycle Sciences, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073, USA.,

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  2. David Schimel is at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA.,

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Pan, Y., Schimel, D. Synergy of a warm spring and dry summer. Nature 534, 483–484 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18450

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