Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Reduced exposure to extreme precipitation from 0.5 °C less warming in global land monsoon regions

  • Wenxia Zhang,
  • Tianjun Zhou,
  • Liwei Zou,
  • Lixia Zhang,
  • Xiaolong Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05633-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The populous global land monsoon region has been suffering from extreme precipitation. Here, the authors show that limiting global warming to 1.5 °C instead of 2 °C could reduce areal and population exposures to baseline once-in-20-year rainfall extremes by 25% (18–41%) and 36% (22–46%), respectively.