Future impacts of El Niño, La Niña likely to intensify, increasing wildfire, drought risk

Future impacts of El Niño, La Niña likely to intensify, increasing wildfire, drought risk

When an El Niño or its opposite, La Niña, forms in the future, it's likely to cause more intense impacts over many land regions -- amplifying changes to temperature, precipitation and wildfire risk.

These are the findings of a new study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy and published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

The researchers found, for example, that the ...

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Published August 28, 2018 at 07:30PM
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