When you have warmer temperatures, you see more intense wet and dry events happening, and happening more frequently, said Matthew Rodell, a scientist at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center.
When you have warmer temperatures, you see these more intense events happening, and happening more frequently, Rodell said. It’s “highly likely that as the world continues to warm, we will see more frequent and more severe droughts and ."
Rodell and Bailing Li, employed by the University of Maryland at the Space Flight Center, used information from NASA satellites. Rodell said the more precise data helps account for underestimates that occur in extreme precipitation data Changes in land-based water storage measured by remote-sensing satellites, including groundwater, soil moisture, snow and ice and surface waters around the world.505 wet events and 551 extreme dry events from 2002-2021, with an average duration of 5-6 months.
"People kind of intuitively recognize that extreme events are happening more often, but it’s been hard to say with certainty," Rodell said.", that gives us quite a bit of confidence it’s already happening."
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