New study illustrates how these events are raising health and environmental risks for southwestern North America Drying soils in northern Mexico can trigger simultaneous drought and heat wave episodes in the southwestern United States, including Arizona and states like Texas...
By Andrew Hoell, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a recurring phenomenon defined by shifts in tropical Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures, ocean currents, and overlying atmospheric winds. It manifests in three distinct phases: neutral, La Niña,...
Persistent spatial patterns of summer weather extremes in the northern hemisphere recorded in tree ring growth records provide a thousand-year history of jet stream ‘wave5’ dynamics. by Susan Trumbore The degree to which global warming will affect atmospheric dynamics and,...
Over a 20-year period, atmospheric rivers could double the amount of rain falling on part of the Southeast, the researchers found. By Chad Small, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization...
Alpine rain and snow take much longer to percolate into western U.S. streams than previously thought, adding complexity to long-standing hydrologic models. By Mark DeGraff, EOS As winter gives way to spring, seasonal snowpack in the American West begins to...
