Predicting droughts and floods: why we’re studying 19th-century ocean records

Gould, William John; Marsh, Robert; Josey, Simon Alasdair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1683-8831; Cunningham, Stuart. 2021 Predicting droughts and floods: why we’re studying 19th-century ocean records. The Conversation.

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Floods have caused unprecedented damage in Europe recently, while in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, the equivalent of a year’s worth of average rainfall fell in just three days. In stark contrast, extreme heat and droughts have spawned wildfires and caused hundreds of deaths in northwest America.