{"629685":{"#nid":"629685","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why are floods hitting eastern and central Africa?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHundreds of people have been killed by devastating floods that have hit large parts of eastern and central Africa. Torrential rains have swept across the region after a shift in temperature between the eastern and western shores of the Indian Ocean. The phenomenon is called \u0026lsquo;Indian Ocean Dipole\u0026rsquo; or \u0026lsquo;Indian Ni\u0026ntilde;o\u0026rsquo;. \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/webster.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EPeter Webster\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Professor Emeritus of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, explains why it is happening.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-12-04 19:40:48","changed_gmt":"2019-12-04 19:40:48","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Georgia Power Research Center","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07wf43w","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"559381":{"id":"559381","type":"image","title":"Peter Webster","body":null,"created":"1470327843","gmt_created":"2016-08-04 16:24:03","changed":"1475895364","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:04","alt":"Peter Webster","file":{"fid":"206752","name":"peter_d1a8003_v1fs_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/peter_d1a8003_v1fs_web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/peter_d1a8003_v1fs_web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":199550,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/peter_d1a8003_v1fs_web.jpg?itok=5mLo9cg4"}}},"media_ids":["559381"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"183218","name":"flooding in Africa"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}