Greenhouse warming and the 21st century hydroclimate of southwestern North America

R Seager, GA Vecchi - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Climate models robustly predict that the climate of southwestern North America, defined as
the area from the western Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean and from the Oregon border to …

A correlated shortening of the North and South American monsoon seasons in the past few decades

PA Arias, R Fu, C Vera, M Rojas - Climate dynamics, 2015 - Springer
Our observational analysis shows that the wet seasons of the American monsoon systems
have shortened since 1978 due to correlated earlier retreats of the North American monsoon …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal shifts in the North American monsoon

K Grantz, B Rajagopalan, M Clark… - Journal of …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Seasonal Shifts in the North American Monsoon in: Journal of Climate Volume 20 Issue 9 (2007)
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[HTML][HTML] Predictability of evapotranspiration patterns using remotely sensed vegetation dynamics during the North American monsoon

Q Tang, ER Vivoni, F Muñoz-Arriola… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Predictability of Evapotranspiration Patterns Using Remotely Sensed Vegetation Dynamics
during the North American Monsoon in: Journal of Hydrometeorology Volume 13 Issue 1 (2012) …

[HTML][HTML] Vegetation dynamics within the North American monsoon region

G Forzieri, F Castelli, ER Vivoni - Journal of Climate, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
Alcaraz-Segura, D., E. Liras, S. Tabik, J. Paruelo, and J. Cabello, 2010: Evaluating the
consistency of the 1982–1999 NDVI trends in the Iberian Peninsula across four time series …

Moisture flux convergence in regional and global climate models: Implications for droughts in the southwestern United States under climate change

Y Gao, LR Leung, EP Salathé Jr… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The water cycle of the southwestern United States (SW) is dominated by winter storms that
maintain a positive annual net precipitation. Analysis of the control and future climate from …

Investigation of the summer climate of the contiguous United States and Mexico using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS). Part I: Model climatology …

CL Castro, RA Pielke Sr, JO Adegoke - Journal of Climate, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Fifty-three years of the NCEP–NCAR Reanalysis I are dynamically downscaled using the
Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) to generate a regional climate model …

Role of the land‐sea thermal contrast in the interannual modulation of the North American Monsoon

C Turrent, T Cavazos - Geophysical Research Letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The land‐sea thermal contrast (LSTC) that is present at the initial stage of the North
American Monsoon is analyzed as a principal driving mechanism for monsoon onset …

Decadal variation of rainfall seasonality in the North American monsoon region and its potential causes

PA Arias, R Fu, KC Mo - Journal of Climate, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study shows that the North American monsoon system's (NAMS) strength, onset, and
retreat over northwestern Mexico exhibit multidecadal variations during the period 1948 …

Spatial extent of the North American Monsoon: Increased cross‐regional linkages via atmospheric pathways

F Dominguez, JC Villegas… - Geophysical Research …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The North American monsoon is a key feature affecting summer climate over Southwestern
North America. During the monsoon, evapotranspiration from the Southwest promotes …