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Data from: Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 Pan-Caribbean Drought by Anthropogenic Warming

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dc.contributor.authorHerrera, Dimitris A
dc.contributor.authorAult, Toby R
dc.contributor.authorFasullo, John T
dc.contributor.authorCoats, Sloan J
dc.contributor.authorCarrillo, Carlos M
dc.contributor.authorCook, Benjamin I
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, A Park
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-20T20:57:04Z
dc.date.available2018-09-20T20:57:04Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-20
dc.descriptionFollowing the CC-BY License, these datasets can be freely used by the scientific community, and should be cited as follows: Herrera et al. (2018). Data from: Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 Pan-Caribbean drought by anthropogenic warming [Dataset]. Cornell University Libarary eCommons Repository. https://doi.org/10.7298/X4571961en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Caribbean islands are expected to see more frequent and severe droughts from reduced precipitation and increased evaporative demand due to anthropogenic climate change. Between 2013 and 2016, the Caribbean experienced a widespread drought due in part to El Niño in 2015-2016, but it is unknown whether its severity was exacerbated by anthropogenic warming. This work examines the role of recent warming on this drought, using a recently-developed high-resolution self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index dataset. The resulting analysis suggest that anthropogenic warming accounted for ~15–17% of the drought’s severity, and ~7% of its spatial extent. These findings strongly suggest that climate model projected anthropogenic drying in the Caribbean is already underway, with major implications for the more than 43 million people currently living in this region.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank the Advanced Study Program (ASP) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for partially supporting this research through the ASP Graduate Visitor Program. This material is partially supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) EaSM2 Grant AGS-1243125, and NSF Grant AGS-1602564. J. T. F. and S. C. participation in this work is supported through NSF Grant AGS-1243107, NASA Award Number NNH11ZDA001N, and DOE Award ID DE-SC0012711. B.I.C. and A.P.W are supported by the NASA Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction Program, and A.P.W. is supported by the National Science Foundation grant AGS-1703029.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/X4571961
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/58763
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isreferencedbyHerrera et al. (2018). Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 Pan-Caribbean drought by anthropogenic warming. Geophys. Res. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079408
dc.relation.isreferencedbyurihttps://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079408
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectCaribbean Islandsen_US
dc.subjectdroughten_US
dc.subjectanthropogenic warmingen_US
dc.titleData from: Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 Pan-Caribbean Drought by Anthropogenic Warmingen_US
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