Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene

BI Cook, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, AP Williams… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

The teleconnection of El Niño Southern Oscillation to the stratosphere

DIV Domeisen, CI Garfinkel… - Reviews of Geophysics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
El Niño and La Niña events in the tropical Pacific have significant and disrupting impacts on
the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation. El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) …

Explaining extreme events of 2016 from a climate perspective

SC Herring, N Christidis, A Hoell… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Editors note: For easy download the posted pdf of the Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 is
a very low-resolution file. A high-resolution copy of the report is available by clicking. Please …

Decadal modulation of global surface temperature by internal climate variability

A Dai, JC Fyfe, SP Xie, X Dai - Nature Climate Change, 2015 - nature.com
Despite a steady increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs), global-mean surface
temperature (T) has shown no discernible warming since about 2000, in sharp contrast to …

Re-examining tropical expansion

PW Staten, J Lu, KM Grise, SM Davis… - Nature Climate Change, 2018 - nature.com
Observations reveal a poleward expansion of the tropics in recent decades, implying a
potential role of human activity. However, although theory and modelling suggest increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Climate variability and change of Mediterranean-type climates

R Seager, TJ Osborn, Y Kushnir, IR Simpson… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Climate Variability and Change of Mediterranean-Type Climates in: Journal of Climate Volume
32 Issue 10 (2019) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo …

Expansion of the Hadley cell under global warming

J Lu, GA Vecchi, T Reichler - Geophysical Research Letters, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A consistent weakening and poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation is diagnosed in
the climate change simulations of the IPCC AR4 project. Associated with this widening is a …

The influence of the interdecadal Pacific oscillation on temperature and precipitation over the globe

B Dong, A Dai - Climate dynamics, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) is a 40–60 year quasi-oscillation seen
mostly in the Pacific basin, but its impacts on surface temperature (T) and precipitation (P) …

North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences

ER Cook, R Seager, MA Cane, DW Stahle - Earth-Science Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Severe drought is the greatest recurring natural disaster to strike North America. A
remarkable network of centuries-long annual tree-ring chronologies has now allowed for the …

[HTML][HTML] The Northern Hemisphere extratropical atmospheric circulation response to ENSO: How well do we know it and how do we evaluate models accordingly?

C Deser, IR Simpson, KA McKinnon… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Alexander, MA, I. Blade, M. Newman, J. Lanzante, N.-C. Lau, and JD Scott, 2002: The
atmospheric bridge: The influence of ENSO teleconnections on air–sea interaction over the …