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"To our knowledge, this is the first time that a climate impact experiment has been carried out over a region this large, based on hundreds of monitoring stations that have collected data for about 15 years," said Guandong Li, a PhD candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane who led the study.

"Guandong immediately dropped everything he was working on to take advantage of this unique opportunity," Törnqvist said.

A powerful typhoon has made landfall in China's Guandong province with nearly 230,000 people evacuated from their homes.

Last week, the provincial government of Guandong, where Evergrande is based, stepped in to help manage the fallout, further reinforcing the view among some investors that its failure could be managed.

The provincial government of Guandong, where Evergrande is based, stepped in last week to help manage the fallout, reinforcing the view that its failure would be managed.