… the tropics and portions of the mid-latitudes (7–9). As will be shown, the 1998–2002 period
of drought … Studies of La Niña impacts show a drying over the southern United States during …

… York, headed by climatologist Anthony Barnston, actually forecast the easing of the Asian
drought, based on Barlow's ocean-drought link and the imminence of El Niño. Such long-range …

… given the nascent stage of our knowledge of the ocean … monsoons and the seasonality of
SSTs, and we show that the north-… tied to the ocean’s response to the annual march of the Sun. …

… the average of the ensemble of extreme events for the baseline period and the average of the
ensemble of extreme events for the … The scale of the wind vector differs among panels. See …

… Temporal variability in the subtropical Atlantic mode of low-frequency ocean–atmosphere
variability and the smoothed time series of the AMO index and the BHI. The subtropical Atlantic …

… the severe 1998–2004 drought in the western US These numerical experiments indicate the
dominating importance of tropical Pacific Ocean … to drought formation is the development of …

… land degradation during the period can explain the anomalous features of the drought. GISS
… variability, such as the North American drought of the 1950s [Supporting Information (SI)]. …

… the impacts of drought. In this paper a ‘perfect drought’ is defined as a prolonged drought
that affects southern California, the Sacramento River basin and the upper Colorado River …

… the first mode in the direct SVD expansion. The temporal correlation coefficient between the
… k ), where k refers to the mode number, and the SCF (%) are shown. (b) Same as (a), but for …

… We quantify and disentangle the effects of ocean and land … by contrasting the effect of the
initialized land anomalies with the … the potential of drought predictability on the S2D timescales. …