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Comment
. 2015 Mar 31;112(13):3858-9.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1503667112. Epub 2015 Mar 23.

Climate change and California drought in the 21st century

Michael E Mann  1 , Peter H Gleick  2
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Climate change and California drought in the 21st century

Michael E Mann et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
California temperature (°F) and precipitation (inches) anomalies from January 1895 to November 2014, plotted as 3-y anomalies relative to 1901–2000 mean. Data from the National Climatic Data Center nClimDiv dataset.
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