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Deep learning shows how global warming affects daily rainfall

An artificial-intelligence method called deep learning has been used to detect signals of human-induced climate change in daily precipitation data. The results indicate that global warming has increased day-to-day rainfall variability in tropical and mid-latitude regions over the past 40 years.

This is a summary of: Ham, Y.-G. et al. Anthropogenic fingerprints in daily precipitation revealed by deep learning. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06474-x (2023).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02803-2

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