More about the Drought in the Western US
About the Drought
- NOAA Report: Causes and Predictability of the 2011 to 2014 California Drought
- New York Times: As California Drought Enters 4th Year, Conservation Efforts and Worries Increase
- List of publications on the Pacific Institute California Drought website
- US Drought Monitor for Western US
About the “Blob”
- The Conversation, by Nicholas Bond: What is the ‘warm blob’ in the Pacific and what can it tell us about our future climate?
Journal Articles
Articles in Explaining Extreme Weather Events of 2013 from a Climate Change Perspective [OPEN ACCESS]:
- Hailan Wang and Siegfried Schubert, Causes of the extreme dry conditions over California during Early 2013
- Chris Funk, Andrew Hoell, and Dáithí Stone, Examining the Contribution of the Observed Global warming trend to California drought of 2012-2014
- The Extraorginary California drought of 2013/2014: Character, context, and the role of climate change, Daniel L. Swain, Michael Tsiang, Matz Haugen, Deepti Singh, Allison Charland, Bala Rajaratnam, and Noah S. Diffenbaugh
California Drought:
- Daniel Griffin, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, How unusual is the 2012–2014 California drought? Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 41, Issue 24
28 December 2014, Pages 9017–9023, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062433 - Shraddhanand Shukla, Mohammad Safeeq, Amir AghaKouchak, Kaiyu Guan, Chris Funk, Temperature impacts on the water year 2014 drought in California, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063666
- Richard Seager, Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America, Science 316, 1181 (2007), DOI: 10.1126/science.1139601 [FULL PDF AVAILABLE]
- Daniel R. Cayan, Tapash Das, David W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Mary Tyree, and Alexander Gershunov, Future dryness in the southwest US and the hydrology of the early 21st century drought, PNAS, December 14, 2010, vol. 107 no. 50, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0912391107 [OPEN ACCESS]
Drought and climate change:
- Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Daniel L. Swain, and Danielle Touma, Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1422385112 PNAS March 31, 2015 vol. 112 no. 13 3931-3936 [OPEN ACCESS]
- Amir AghaKouchak, Linyin Cheng, Omid Mazdiyasni, Alireza Farahmand, Global warming and changes in risk of concurrent climate extremes: Insights from the 2014 California drought, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 41, Issue 24, 28 December 2014, Pages 8847–8852,
- Yixin Mao, Bart Nijssen, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Is climate change implicated in the 2013–2014 California drought? A hydrologic perspective, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 42, Issue 8, 28 April 2015, Pages 2805–2813, DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063456
- S.-Y. Wang, Lawrence Hipps, Robert R Gillies, Jin-Ho Yoon, Probable causes of the abnormal ridge accompanying the 2013–2014 California drought: ENSO precursor and anthropogenic warming footprint, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 41, Issue 9, 16 May 2014, Pages 3220–3226, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059748 [OPEN ACCESS]
- J. David Neelin, Baird Langenbrunner, Joyce E. Meyerson, Alex Hall, and Neil Berg, California winter precipitation change under global warming in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 ensemble, J. Climate, 26, 6238-6256, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00514.1 [FULL PDF AVAILABLE]
- Glen M. MacDonald, Water, climate change, and sustainability in the southwest, PNAS, December 14, 2010, vol. 107 no. 50, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0909651107 [OPEN ACCESS]
- Thomas L. Delworth and Fanrong Zeng, A Link between the Hiatus in Global Warming and North American Drought, Journal of Climate, Volume 28, Issue 9 (May 2015), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00616.1
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