Late rainy season reliably predicts drought in regions prone to food insecurity (image)
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Top: Whisker plots describing the variability of correlation between timing of onset of the rainy season (onset date) and peak NDVI (indicator of drought) in the following months for East, West, and Southern Africa based on Acute Food Insecurity (AFI) risks (Table 1). Bottom: Scatter plots of standardized anomaly of onset date timing and peak NDVI for the AU2s with the highest AFI risks. *The number on the top of box-whisker plots indicate the number of AU2 in each of the corresponding bins. AFI risk level 1 indicates lowest risk of food insecurity and level 5 indicates highest risk, further explanation for AFI risk level can be found in Table 1.
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Shukla et al, PLOS ONE 2021 (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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