Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-491-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-491-2018
Brief communication
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14 Feb 2018
Brief communication |  | 14 Feb 2018

Brief communication: Drought likelihood for East Africa

Hui Yang and Chris Huntingford

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (28 Aug 2017) by Bruno Merz
AR by Svenja Lange on behalf of the Authors (26 Sep 2017)  Author's response
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 Oct 2017) by Bruno Merz
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (18 Oct 2017)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (03 Nov 2017)
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (08 Nov 2017) by Bruno Merz
AR by Hui Yang on behalf of the Authors (01 Dec 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 Dec 2017) by Bruno Merz
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (15 Dec 2017)
ED: Publish as is (17 Dec 2017) by Bruno Merz

Post-review adjustments

AA: Author's adjustment | EA: Editor approval
AA by Hui Yang on behalf of the Authors (07 Feb 2018)   Author's adjustment   Manuscript
EA: Adjustments approved (12 Feb 2018) by Bruno Merz
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Short summary
Major drought in East Africa at the end of 2016 caused severe famine and loss of life. We pose the following question: are increasing levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, due to human activity, making droughts such as this more likely? Computer models of the climate system are powerful tools to answer this. Scanning across a full set of these, we find that how future climate change will impact on East Africa ASO drought risk remains uncertain, in any particular year.
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