Drought, fires and climate in equatorial Asia
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Do biomass burning aerosols intensify drought in equatorial Asia during El Niño? M. G. Tosca, J. T. Randerson, C. S. Zender, M. G. Flanner, and P. J. Rasch Croul Hall, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA Received: 7 August 2009 – Accepted: 10 September 2009 – Published: 2 November 2009 Correspondence to: M. G. Tosca ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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