Publisher Correction: Recent southwestern US drought exacerbated by anthropogenic aerosols and tropical ocean warming (Nature Geoscience, (2025), 18, 7, (578-585), 10.1038/s41561-025-01728-x)

Correction to: Nature Geosciencehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01728-x, published online 9 July 2025. In the version of the article initially published, panel headings were missing from Fig. 2 and the hatching in the maps was reversed. The original, uncorrected Fig. 2 is included below as Fig. 1 for comparison. Additionally, in Fig. 4 there were several errors in the panel headings: in the Fig. 4a heading, “SST fixed (10)” should have read “fixed SST (RF-only; 10)”; in the Fig. 4c heading, “(20)” should have read “(10)”; the Fig. 4d heading was “El Niño-like only tropical SST-forced psl and pr (20)” but should have read “El Niño-like tropical SST-forced psl and pr (ElNiño-like-only; 20)”; in the Fig. 4e heading “RF-forced” should have read “radiative forcing”; and in the Fig. 4f heading “(20)” should have read “2k-only; 20)”. These corrections have been made to the HTML and PDF versions of the article. (Figure presented.) Original, uncorrected Fig. 2.