Journal article
Factors other than climate change, main drivers of 2014/15 water shortage in southeast Brazil
FEL Otto, CAS Coelho, A King, EC De Perez, Y Wada, GJ Van Oldenborgh, R Haarsma, K Haustein, P Uhe, M Van Aalst, JA Aravequia, W Almeida, H Cullen
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Published : 2015
Abstract
Southeast Brazil experienced profound water shortages in 2014/15. Anthropogenic climate change is not found to be a major influence on the hazard, whereas increasing population and water consumption increased vulnerability.
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Antonio Divino Moura and David Karoly for their guidance and input on the manuscript and Dina Sperling and Roop Singh for all their help, our colleagues at the Oxford eResearch Centre and the Met Office Hadley Centre PRECIS team for their support for the application and development of weather@home and all participants in climateprediction.net. The work was supported by the EUCLEIA project funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013].