An analysis suggests that high carbon uptake by US land ecosystems during the warm spring of 2012 offset the carbon loss that resulted from severe drought over the summer — and hints that the warm spring could have worsened the drought.
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Pan, Y., Schimel, D. Synergy of a warm spring and dry summer. Nature 534, 483–484 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18450
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