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The challenge of hot drought

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An analysis of North American drought variability over the past millennium shows that it is not unusual for widespread drought to persist for years, prompting fresh thinking about our ability to deal with such climate conditions.

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Figure 1: The 2012 North American drought.

MAP: BENJAMIN COOK; DATA SOURCE: CLIMATIC RESEARCH UNIT/UNIV. EAST ANGLIA

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  1. Jonathan T. Overpeck is at the Institute of the Environment and in the Departments of Geosciences and of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.,

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Overpeck, J. The challenge of hot drought. Nature 503, 350–351 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/503350a

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