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China’s extreme weather challenges scientists trying to study it

A severe heatwave in parts of China exacerbated a drought and fuelled wildfires.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty

    1. Smriti Mallapaty is a senior reporter in Sydney, Australia.

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Many regions of China are just emerging from a record-breaking heatwave that lasted for two months, and which was followed by one of the worst droughts in around 60 years. Researchers are now trying to understand the conditions that fuelled such extreme events, because many projections came up short.

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Nature 609, 888 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02954-8

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  • Update 26 September 2022: Further analysis of the recent drought in China has found that it was the worst since records began in 1961. A previous version of this story said the drought was the worst in more than 40 years.

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