Multi-proxy stalagmite records from northern California reveal dynamic patterns of regional hydroclimate over the last glacial cycle

JL Oster, IE Weisman, WD Sharp - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite its importance for California's water resources, little is known about how
precipitation has varied in far northern California beyond the historical record. We present a …

Speleothem paleoclimatology for the Caribbean, Central America, and north America

JL Oster, SF Warken, N Sekhon, MM Arienzo… - Quaternary, 2019 - mdpi.com
Speleothem oxygen isotope records from the Caribbean, Central, and North America reveal
climatic controls that include orbital variation, deglacial forcing related to ocean circulation …

Changes in atmospheric rivers and moisture transport over the Northeast Pacific and western North America in response to ENSO diversity

HM Kim, Y Zhou, MA Alexander - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
The year-to-year changes in atmospheric rivers (ARs) and moisture transport over the
northeast Pacific and western North America are investigated during December to February …

Projection of extreme precipitation induced by Arctic amplification over the Northern Hemisphere

J Liu, D Wu, X Xu, M Ji, Q Chen… - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerous attempts have been made to understand the connection between extreme
weather and Arctic amplification (AA), and it is still disputed whether the mechanism is the …

The effect of El Niño on flood damages in the western United States

TW Corringham, DR Cayan - Weather, Climate, and Society, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper quantifies insured flood losses across the western United States from 1978 to
2017, presenting a spatiotemporal analysis of National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) …

Great Basin paleoclimate and aridity linked to Arctic warming and tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures

MS Lachniet, Y Asmerom, V Polyak… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The arid southwestern United States is susceptible to sustained droughts that
impact water resources and economic activity for millions of residents. Previous work has not …

Relationships of rainy season precipitation and temperature to climate indices in California: Long-term variability and extreme events

YC Liu, P Di, SH Chen, J DaMassa - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
To better understand the change in California's climate over the past century, the long-term
variability and extreme events of precipitation as well as minimum, mean, and maximum …

California winter precipitation predictability: Insights from the anomalous 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 seasons

D Singh, M Ting, AA Scaife… - Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The unexpected dry 2015–2016 El Niño winter and extremely wet 2016–2017 La
Niña winter in California challenged current seasonal prediction systems. Using the Met …

Variability in effective moisture inferred from inclusion fluid δ18O and δ2H values in a central Sierra Nevada stalagmite (CA)

BE Wortham, IP Montañez, PK Swart, H Vonhof… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The oxygen isotopic composition of stalagmites is widely used to infer regional changes in
terrestrial surface temperatures and precipitation dynamics. The stalagmite δ 18 O values …

Spatiotemporal dynamics of water sources in a mountain river basin inferred through δ2H and δ18O of water

LM McGill, JR Brooks, EA Steel - Hydrological processes, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In mountainous river basins of the Pacific Northwest, climate models predict that winter
warming will result in increased precipitation falling as rain and decreased snowpack. A …