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Asia faces weather whiplash as Earth warms

Floods followed by droughts, or droughts followed by floods, will rise in frequency in a warming world.
Soldiers ferry people in a small boat down a street following heavy flooding in Japan.

Devastating floods that hit Japan in early July of 2018 were followed before the end of the month by an unprecedented heat wave. Credit: Carl Court/Getty

Global warming will amplify a new type of natural hazard in East Asia: drastic and rapid swings in weather, from heat or drought to flood, and vice versa1.

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Nature 614, 198 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00231-w

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  1. Fang, B. & Lu, M. Earth's Future https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003111 (2023).

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