Raghu Murtugudde (ESSIC / AOSC) was featured in a July Livescience post entitled, “Dust Clouds the Future of the South Asian Monsoon.” The post discusses a recent Murtugudde Nature Communications publication regarding how pollution and dust particles blanketing that region are responsible for a 20-percent decline in South Asian monsoon rainfall over the past century. Murtugudde was also quoted in a recent article in WIRED regarding the history of inaccuracies in recently predicted El Nino events.
Murtugudde publishes Livescience Op-ed, quoted in WIRED
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