Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

J Huang, Y Li, C Fu, F Chen, Q Fu, A Dai… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drylands are home to more than 38% of the world's population and are one of the most
sensitive areas to climate change and human activities. This review describes recent …

The Pacific decadal oscillation, revisited

M Newman, MA Alexander, TR Ault… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), the dominant year-round pattern of monthly North
Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) variability, is an important target of ongoing research …

Pacific decadal oscillation and the hydroclimatology of western Canada—Review and prospects

PH Whitfield, RD Moore, SW Fleming… - Canadian Water …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is a large-scale climate system feature that influences
the surface climate and hydrology of western North America. In this paper, we review the …

Winter circulation anomalies in the western United States associated with antecedent and decadal ENSO variability

DP Brown - Earth Interactions, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
Previous research has shown that the impacts of ENSO variability on the winter climate of
the western United States vary on decadal time scales. In this study, the relationship …

Combined effects of the Pacific decadal oscillation and El Nino-southern oscillation on global land dry–wet changes

S Wang, J Huang, Y He, Y Guan - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
The effects of natural variability, especially El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) effects,
have been the focus of several recent studies on the change of drought patterns with climate …

ENSO‐related rainfall anomalies in South America and associated circulation features during warm and cold Pacific decadal oscillation regimes

RV Andreoli, MT Kayano - … Journal of Climatology: A Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-related patterns of monthly reanalyzed
upper-level circulation data and monthly rainfall time series over South America are revised …

Climate variability and projected change in the western United States: regional downscaling and drought statistics

DS Gutzler, TO Robbins - Climate Dynamics, 2011 - Springer
Climate change in the twenty-first century, projected by a large ensemble average of global
coupled models forced by a mid-range (A1B) radiative forcing scenario, is downscaled to …

Groundwater level response in US principal aquifers to ENSO, NAO, PDO, and AMO

AJM Kuss, JJ Gurdak - Journal of Hydrology, 2014 - Elsevier
Groundwater will play an important role in society's adaptation to climate variability and
change. Therefore, it is particularly important to understand teleconnections in groundwater …

Aboveground net primary production dynamics in a northern Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem

EH Muldavin, DI Moore, SL Collins, KR Wetherill… - Oecologia, 2008 - Springer
Aboveground net primary production (ANPP) dynamics are a key element in the
understanding of ecosystem processes. For semiarid environments, the pulse-reserve …

[HTML][HTML] Distinguishing pronounced droughts in the southwestern United States: Seasonality and effects of warmer temperatures

JL Weiss, CL Castro, JT Overpeck - Journal of Climate, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Distinguishing Pronounced Droughts in the Southwestern United States: Seasonality and
Effects of Warmer Temperatures in: Journal of Climate Volume 22 Issue 22 (2009) Jump to …