Phys.org   October 13, 2023 Given this region’s long history of floods and droughts, the role of natural climate variability cannot be rejected without a careful diagnosis. An international team of researchers (USA – Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Princeton, Stanford, University of Tennessee, Washington State University, Northeastern University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Tufts University, Italy, India) examined how oceanic and atmospheric variability has contributed to unusual precipitation distributions in West South Asia. Variations in sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific and northern Arabian Sea, and internal atmospheric variability related to the circumglobal teleconnection pattern and the subtropical westerly jet stream, […]