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precipitation whiplash: a standalone construct

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Climate science

rapid swings between extremely dry and extremely wet seasons, projected to become more frequent as warming raises precipitation volatility.

In climate science, precipitation whiplash refers to rapid swings between extremely dry and extremely wet seasons, projected to become more frequent as warming raises precipitation volatility. This meaning comes from Swain (2018) in Nature Climate Change.[1]

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References

Swain, D. L., Langenbrunner, B., Neelin, J. D., & Hall, A. (2018). Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California. Nature Climate Change, 8(5), 427-433. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0140-y

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