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Sub-tropical drying explained

The sub-tropics are some of Earth's driest regions, and are expected to get even drier under climate change. Now research overturns our previous understanding of this drying, and suggests that it will affect the oceans much more than the land.

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Figure 1: Projected future precipitation change (%) from the ensemble mean of 33 CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5) climate models.

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Chadwick, R. Sub-tropical drying explained. Nature Clim Change 7, 10–11 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3167

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