Publish Date: August 3, 2012
Article Source: University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Article Link: www.aer.com/news-events/in-the-news/2012/record-dryness-worst-decades
UMass Lowell refers to Dr. Judah Cohen et al. research "Arctic warming, increasing snow cover and widespread boreal winter cooling" published in Environmental Research Letters, as a link between the North Arctic Oscillation and this summers current drought.