US Climate Variability and Predictability Program

Water Cycle

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Models with corrected double-ITCZ projected drier winters for the US Southwest
Spatial distribution of two widespread precipitation events that occurred on 8 May 1995 and 13 September 1961 and geometric illustration of the extent of an SHPE on the ground.
Understanding the spatial structure of simultaneous heavy precipitation events over the conterminous United States
Box-plots for the future phase changes (units: days) in the precipitation annual cycle
Why is the seasonal delay of tropical rainfall only evident over land?
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Governance of Long-Duration Floods
linear model accounting for changes in drying ratio and mean source distance
Global patterns of evaporation and precipitation leave a traceable isotopic fingerprint
Megadrougth schematic and teleconnections
Volcanic eruptions interact with El Nino events, affecting sustained ‘megadrought’
Atmospheric river moisture transport to the West Coast of the US
Origins of atmospheric river moisture traced in model
monthly-mean analysis of oxygen isotopes in precipitation and gross primary productivity
Ice-core evidence for southward shifts of tropical rainfall in response to iceberg discharge during the last glacial period
map showing anomalies in SST and total soil water
Atlantic/Pacific climate contrast affects multi-year predictability of US drought and wildfire
Precipitation differences between the positive and negative AMV
Global impacts of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability
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