Communication of the role of natural variability in future North American climate

C Deser, R Knutti, S Solomon, AS Phillips - Nature Climate Change, 2012 - nature.com
As climate models improve, decision-makers' expectations for accurate climate predictions
are growing. Natural climate variability, however, poses inherent limits to climate …

The Pacific decadal oscillation

NJ Mantua, SR Hare - Journal of oceanography, 2002 - Springer
Abstract The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has been described by some as a long-lived
El Niño-like pattern of Pacific climate variability, and by others as a blend of two sometimes …

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

AP Williams, ER Cook, JE Smerdon, BI Cook… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Severe and persistent 21st-century drought in southwestern North America (SWNA)
motivates comparisons to medieval megadroughts and questions about the role of …

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

AD Bjorkman, IH Myers-Smith, SC Elmendorf… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential
ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and …

[HTML][HTML] TPHiPr: a long-term (1979–2020) high-accuracy precipitation dataset (, daily) for the Third Pole region based on high-resolution atmospheric modeling …

Y Jiang, K Yang, Y Qi, X Zhou, J He… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Reliable precipitation data are highly necessary for geoscience research in the Third Pole
(TP) region but still lacking, due to the complex terrain and high spatial variability of …

[HTML][HTML] The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes

C Funk, P Peterson, M Landsfeld, D Pedreros, J Verdin… - Scientific data, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) dataset
builds on previous approaches to 'smart'interpolation techniques and high resolution, long …

[HTML][HTML] CHELSA-TraCE21k–high-resolution (1 km) downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the Last Glacial Maximum

DN Karger, MP Nobis, S Normand… - Climate of the …, 2023 - cp.copernicus.org
High-resolution, downscaled climate model data are used in a wide variety of applications
across environmental sciences. Here we introduce a new, high-resolution dataset, CHELSA …

TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

JT Abatzoglou, SZ Dobrowski, SA Parks… - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
We present TerraClimate, a dataset of high-spatial resolution (1/24,~ 4-km) monthly climate
and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces from 1958–2015. TerraClimate …

Drought monitoring and analysis: standardised precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) and standardised precipitation index (SPI)

S Tirivarombo, D Osupile, P Eliasson - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth …, 2018 - Elsevier
Although rainfall is a major indicator of the availability of water, temperature is also an
important factor that can influence the availability of water as it controls the rates of …

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations-the CRU TS3. 10 Dataset

I Harris, P Jones, T Osborn… - International journal of …, 2014 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
This paper describes the construction of an updated gridded climate dataset (referred to as
CRU TS3. 10) from monthly observations at meteorological stations across the world's land …