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SUBMITTER: Ghatak D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5550505 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ghatak Debjani D Zaitchik Benjamin B Hain Christopher C Anderson Martha M
Scientific reports 20170809 1
India faced a major heat wave during the summer of 2015. Temperature anomalies peaked in the dry period before the onset of the summer monsoon, suggesting that local land-atmosphere feedbacks involving desiccated soils and vegetation might have played a role in driving the heat extreme. Upon examination of in situ data, reanalysis, satellite observations, and land surface models, we find that the heat wave included two distinct peaks: one in late May, and a second in early June. During the first ...[more]