A review of the role of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in Atlantic multidecadal variability and associated climate impacts

R Zhang, R Sutton, G Danabasoglu… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
By synthesizing recent studies employing a wide range of approaches (modern
observations, paleo reconstructions, and climate model simulations), this paper provides a …

North American megadroughts in the Common Era: Reconstructions and simulations

BI Cook, ER Cook, JE Smerdon… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
During the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), Western North America experienced episodes
of intense aridity that persisted for multiple decades or longer. These megadroughts are well …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the climate impacts of the observed Atlantic multidecadal variability using the GFDL CM2. 1 and NCAR CESM1 global coupled models

Y Ruprich-Robert, R Msadek, F Castruccio… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Assessing the Climate Impacts of the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability Using the GFDL
CM2.1 and NCAR CESM1 Global Coupled Models in: Journal of Climate Volume 30 Issue 8 …

[HTML][HTML] The central role of ocean dynamics in connecting the North Atlantic Oscillation to the extratropical component of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

TL Delworth, F Zeng, L Zhang, R Zhang… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Central Role of Ocean Dynamics in Connecting the North Atlantic Oscillation to the
Extratropical Component of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation in: Journal of Climate Volume 30 …

Recent progress in understanding and predicting Atlantic decadal climate variability

SG Yeager, JI Robson - Current Climate Change Reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Recent Atlantic climate prediction studies are an exciting new
contribution to an extensive body of research on Atlantic decadal variability and …

[HTML][HTML] Decadal climate variability and predictability: Challenges and opportunities

C Cassou, Y Kushnir, E Hawkins… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The study of Decadal Climate Variability (DCV) and Predictability is the
interdisciplinary endeavor to characterize, understand, attribute, simulate, and predict the …

Multiple causes of wind erosion in the Dust Bowl

JA Lee, TE Gill - Aeolian Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dust Bowl refers to a disaster focused in the Southern Great Plains of North
America during the 1930s, when the region experienced extreme wind erosion. Dry farming …

The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation as a dominant factor of oceanic influence on climate

P Chylek, JD Klett, G Lesins, MK Dubey… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A multiple linear regression analysis of global annual mean near‐surface air temperature
(1900–2012) using the known radiative forcing and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation index …

Discussion on climate oscillations: CMIP5 general circulation models versus a semi-empirical harmonic model based on astronomical cycles

N Scafetta - Earth-Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Power spectra of global surface temperature (GST) records (available since 1850) reveal
major periodicities at about 9.1, 10–11, 19–22 and 59–62 years. Equivalent oscillations are …

Climate change and physical disturbance manipulations result in distinct biological soil crust communities

B Steven, CR Kuske, LV Gallegos-Graves… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) colonize plant interspaces in many drylands and are critical
to soil nutrient cycling. Multiple climate change and land use factors have been shown to …