Countrywide climate features during recorded climate-related disasters.

Hence, in contrast to developed countries, drought disasters in developing countries are associated with significant positive temperature anomalies in addition to a large precipitation deficit. Discussion We find highly significant anomalies in temperature and precipitation during years with disasters classified as droughts, floods, and heat waves in the EM-DAT database, even though the climate variables were averaged over entire countries and years (Fig. 4 ).

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There is a positive trend in temperature anomalies of about 0.1 ∘ C on average over the 7-year time period.

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