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SUBMITTER: Rao MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7692521 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20201126 1
The lower Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh and Northeast India often floods during the monsoon season, with catastrophic consequences for people throughout the region. While most climate models predict an intensified monsoon and increase in flood risk with warming, robust baseline estimates of natural climate variability in the basin are limited by the short observational record. Here we use a new seven-century (1309-2004 C.E) tree-ring reconstruction of monsoon season Brahmaputra discharge to de ...[more]