Historic Yangtze flooding of 2020 tied to extreme Indian Ocean conditions

Zhou, Zhen‐Qiang; Xie, Shang‐Ping; Zhang, Renhe

doi:10.1073/pnas.2022255118

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Historic Yangtze flooding of 2020 tied to extreme Indian Ocean conditions

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Mar 8, 2021

Authors:

Zhen‐Qiang Zhou

Shang‐Ping Xie

Renhe Zhang

Abstract

Heavy monsoon rainfall ravaged a large swath of East Asia in summer 2020. Severe flooding of the Yangtze River displaced millions of residents in the midst of a historic public health crisis. This extreme rainy season was not anticipated from El Niño conditions. Using observations and model experime...

Subject

Predictability

Indian Ocean Dipole

Climatology

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