Abstract:The arid Xinjiang region of China exemplifies severe water scarcity regions with a burgeoning agriculture. Whether or not the ongoing wetting, unprecedented in instrumental hydroclimatic records, will become routine has implications for regional oasis economy and China's Go West plan. Here, we show that Xinjiang experienced a one‐third increase in precipitation since the 1980s, and that this increase is primarily due to sea surface warming in the Bay of Bengal‐west Pacific and tropical North Atlantic. Using th… Show more
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