GoKawiilStudy on warming and global drought severity retracted over calculation errors
The authors have retracted their paper on warming and global drought severity after discovering multiple errors, including failure to use area-weighted grid cells, inadvertent use of an outdated dataset (GLEAM v3 instead of GLEAM4), and a timestepping bug that misclassified data periods. They also acknowledged unclear explanations of how an arid-region mask was applied across different figures. Rather than issue a correction, the authors chose to retract the paper entirely and plan to resubmit a fully revised version for new peer review.