Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts
One of the major concerns with a potential change in climate is that an increase in extreme events will occur. Results of observational studies suggest that in many areas that h...
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View AllThe Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project
Abstract The Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) project is an international effort to produce a comprehensive global atmospheric circulation dataset spanning the twentieth cent...
A Review of Twentieth-Century Drought Indices Used in the United States
The monitoring and analysis of drought have long suffered from the lack of an adequate definition of the phenomenon. As a result, drought indices have slowly evolved during the ...
Indices of Climate Change for the United States
A framework is presented to quantify observed changes in climate within the contiguous United States through the development and analysis of two indices of climate change, a Cli...
The Sensitivity of the Palmer Drought Severity Index and Palmer's Z-Index to their Calibration Coefficients Including Potential Evapotranspiration
Abstract The Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) is routinely made available by NOAA for operational use, and it has also been calculated across the United States on a historic...
Some Spatial Characteristics of Drought Duration in the United States
By using the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) as calculated from state averages of temperature and precipitation and from numerous single station analyses, it has been demon...
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