Speleothem oxygen isotope records from the Caribbean, Central, and North America reveal climatic controls that include orbital variation, deglacial forcing related to ocean circulation …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …