# Phrasebank (taken from the user's papers) ## Transitions the user actually uses - **Adding:** Moreover, · In addition, · Additionally, · Furthermore, · Besides, · Besides that, · Also, - **Contrasting:** However, · Nevertheless, · In contrast, · Conversely, · Meanwhile, · On the other hand, · Unlike…, · While…, · Despite…, · whereas - **Result or consequence:** Thus, · Therefore, · Hence, · Consequently, · As a result, · …, thus, … (placed mid-sentence: "This study, thus, provides…") - **Specifying:** Specifically, · Particularly, · In particular, · For instance, · For example, · i.e., · e.g., - **Highlighting:** Notably, · Remarkably, · Interestingly, · It is important to note that · It should be noted that · Note that · Here, one should note that - **Summarizing:** Overall, · In general, · In summary, · In brief, · Collectively, · To this end, ## Pointing to evidence - Figure X shows / presents / illustrates / depicts / exhibits / displays … - The results show / indicate / reveal / suggest / imply / confirm that … - It can be seen that … / It is observed that … - … as shown in Fig. X · (Fig. 5d) · (see Table 2) · (not shown) · (see details in Figs. S3 and S4) - The plots generally show an in-phase relation over most sub-regions, signifying a close correlation between … ## Interpreting (in order of increasing hedge) - This finding confirms that … - This result indicates / suggests that … - This is to be expected, due to … - … as a result of … · … resulting from the combined effects of … - This could be (partially) attributed to … - This might be related to … - It seems that … - … could play important roles in the mechanisms and formation of … - … may have a connection with … ## Describing patterns and magnitudes - … with the maximum and minimum values occurring during … and …, respectively. - … in the range of 0.40–0.60 · … ranging from … to … · … mostly ranging from … - … accounting for 75–90% of the annual rainfall - … accounted for 26, 11 and 5% of the total variance, respectively. - … are much smaller and have opposite signs with those in … - … was quite spatially uniform, suggestive of … - … decreases from the North to the South of Vietnam, except for a peak observed in R3 … - … exhibit consistent, regional patterns of these characteristics, except for … - … reached their peaks in … - … heavily loaded over the Northern region, indicating the largest variability of … ## Paired opposites (signature device) - positive (negative) values of X are associated with positive (negative) values of Y - drought (wetness) conditions have been observed … during El Niño (La Niña) years - The decreasing (increasing) trends of SPEI, corresponding to the increasing (decreasing) trends of drought, … - … the cold (warm) SST anomaly … convection is suppressed (enhanced), leading to precipitation deficiencies (excesses) … - … advances (delays) the onset (withdrawal) of … ## Trends and significance - Overall, we detected heterogeneity in the historical trends of … across sub-regions during the study period. - … a significant increasing trend of seasonal PDSI was observed in … - … with corresponding Mann–Kendall statistical significance at 95% … - … differences that satisfy the 95% confidence level of the t-test observed in more than 50% of stations in five out of seven sub-regions (except for R2 and R7). - … only the first of these components is statistically significant based on the North test (North et al., 1982). ## Drivers and teleconnections - How large-scale processes are related to changes in … remains a question. Here, we examined this relationship by … - … is strongly associated with oceanic and atmospheric large-scale drivers, particularly ENSO, followed by … - … demonstrates the important role of ENSO in modulating drought over … - During El Niño events, trade winds are weakened, leading to precipitation deficits and droughts over the region. - These indices are mentioned in previous studies as possible influences on ENSO evolution (…). - … ENSO emerges as the primary climate driver exerting a dominant impact on … - … the lagged influence of ENSO is the primary climatic driver of … ## Literature positioning - Much research has thus been made in documenting … - Previous studies have documented … across different scales (…). - Numerous studies pointed out that … - … has also been mentioned / demonstrated / documented in previous studies (…). - … generally align with those of X (year), though with some discrepancies … - … is largely consistent with the findings of X (year), who examined … - Our findings motivate an in-depth investigation of … ## Gap, aim and novelty - … remain(s) poorly understood. · little is known about … · … remains an area of active research. - none has addressed other important characteristics of … - Insufficient attention has been given to investigating … - To the best of our knowledge, there exists no study that specifically addresses … - This study attempts to bring out comprehensive aspects and valid evidences of … → in the skill's output, write "valid evidence of" - Here, we aim to …; Specifically, we …; We next employ …; Then, … - This study for the first time presents … - This study deepens our understanding of … ## Closing and implications - We believe that the results obtained in this study are an important step forward to … - … suggesting a possibility of early prediction for … using ENSO. - … offers opportunities for developing a seasonal … prediction system for Vietnam. - Based on that, … prediction models can be developed to forecast …, which are crucial information for various socioeconomic sectors, such as agriculture and water resource management. - To cope with these changes, a solid understanding of … is required. - Further research should also be directed toward … - … could be explored in future work. - … would be an interesting topic to address in a future study. ## Domain vocabulary spatio-temporal (or spatiotemporal) variability · large-scale (climate) drivers · climate indices (CIs) · teleconnection(s) · climatic sub-regions · homogeneous subregions · leading modes · explained / total variance · spatial loading · drought / heatwave characteristics · frequency, duration, severity, intensity, spatial / geographical extent · inter-arrival time · climatology (long-term mean) · anomaly · composite maps · water balance · soil moisture deficit · moisture transport / convergence · Walker circulation · trade winds · ENSO-related indices · El Niño Modoki · central Pacific ENSO · Maritime Continent · mainland Indochina · Foehn effect · cold surges · ITCZ · added value · ensemble mean · reference dataset · bias correction (BC) · quantile mapping (QM)