Increased frequency of extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events due to greenhouse warming

Wenju Cai (), Agus Santoso, Guojian Wang, Evan Weller, Lixin Wu, Karumuri Ashok, Yukio Masumoto and Toshio Yamagata
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Wenju Cai: CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Victoria, 3195 Australia
Agus Santoso: Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052 Australia
Guojian Wang: CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Victoria, 3195 Australia
Evan Weller: CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Victoria, 3195 Australia
Lixin Wu: Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Qingdao Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Science and Technology, Ocean University of China
Karumuri Ashok: Centre for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Pashan, Pune 411 008, India
Yukio Masumoto: Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Toshio Yamagata: Application Laboratory, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan

Nature, 2014, vol. 510, issue 7504, 254-258

Abstract: Extreme positive-Indian-Ocean-dipole events cause devastating floods in eastern tropical Africa and severe droughts in Asia; increasing greenhouse gas emissions will make these dipole events about three times more frequent in the twenty-first century.

Date: 2014
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