Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts

Z Hao, F Hao, Y Xia, S Feng, C Sun, X Zhang, Y Fu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Geomorphic and sedimentary effects of modern climate change: current and anticipated future conditions in the western United States

AE East, JB Sankey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been
documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far …

The twenty‐first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future

B Udall, J Overpeck - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Between 2000 and 2014, annual Colorado River flows averaged 19% below the
1906–1999 average, the worst 15‐year drought on record. At least one‐sixth to one‐half …

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

A Park Williams, CD Allen, AK Macalady… - Nature climate …, 2013 - nature.com
As the climate changes, drought may reduce tree productivity and survival across many
forest ecosystems; however, the relative influence of specific climate parameters on forest …

Causes of the 2011–14 California drought

R Seager, M Hoerling, S Schubert, H Wang… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The causes of the California drought during November–April winters of 2011/12–2013/14
are analyzed using observations and ensemble simulations with seven atmosphere models …

Projections of declining surface-water availability for the southwestern United States

R Seager, M Ting, C Li, N Naik, B Cook… - Nature Climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Global warming driven by rising greenhouse-gas concentrations is expected to cause wet
regions of the tropics and mid to high latitudes to get wetter and subtropical dry regions to …

Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States

AP Williams, CD Allen, CI Millar… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
In recent decades, intense droughts, insect outbreaks, and wildfires have led to decreasing
tree growth and increasing mortality in many temperate forests. We compared annual tree …

Surface temperature lapse rates over complex terrain: Lessons from the Cascade Mountains

JR Minder, PW Mote… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The typically sparse distribution of weather stations in mountainous terrain inadequately
resolves temperature variability. Accordingly, high‐resolution gridding of climate data (for …

[HTML][HTML] Climatology, variability, and trends in the US vapor pressure deficit, an important fire-related meteorological quantity

R Seager, A Hooks, AP Williams… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Unlike the commonly used relative humidity, vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is an absolute
measure of the difference between the water vapor content of the air and its saturation value …

Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States' largest river basin

JT Martin, GT Pederson… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Across the Upper Missouri River Basin, the recent drought of 2000 to 2010, known as the
“turn-of-the-century drought,” was likely more severe than any in the instrumental record …