A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States: more than before, but less than needed

R Bierbaum, JB Smith, A Lee, M Blair, L Carter… - … adaptation strategies for …, 2013‏ - Springer
We reviewed existing and planned adaptation activities of federal, tribal, state, and local
governments and the private sector in the United States (US) to understand what types of …

Detection and attribution of climate change: a regional perspective

PA Stott, NP Gillett, GC Hegerl… - Wiley …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth assessment report,
published in 2007 came to a more confident assessment of the causes of global temperature …

High mountain areas

R Hock, G Rasul, C Adler, B Cáceres, S Gruber… - IPCC special report on …, 2019‏ - iris.unito.it
The cryosphere (including, snow, glaciers, permafrost, lake and river ice) is an integral
element of high mountain regions, which are home to roughly 10% of the global population …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss

AR Gottlieb, JS Mankin - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Documenting the rate, magnitude and causes of snow loss is essential to benchmark the
pace of climate change and to manage the differential water security risks of snowpack …

Global emergence of anthropogenic climate change in fire weather indices

JT Abatzoglou, AP Williams… - Geophysical Research …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in global fire activity are influenced by a multitude of factors including land‐
cover change, policies, and climatic conditions. This study uses 17 climate models to …

Dramatic declines in snowpack in the western US

PW Mote, S Li, DP Lettenmaier, M **ao… - Npj Climate and …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Mountain snowpack stores a significant quantity of water in the western US, accumulating
during the wet season and melting during the dry summers and supplying much of the water …

Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources

KN Musselman, N Addor, JA Vano… - Nature Climate Change, 2021‏ - nature.com
In many mountainous regions, winter precipitation accumulates as snow that melts in the
spring and summer, which provides water to one billion people globally. Climate warming …

[HTML][HTML] Observed snow depth trends in the European Alps: 1971 to 2019

M Matiu, A Crespi, G Bertoldi, CM Carmagnola… - The …, 2021‏ - tc.copernicus.org
The European Alps stretch over a range of climate zones which affect the spatial distribution
of snow. Previous analyses of station observations of snow were confined to regional …

Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional

NL Bindoff, PAA Stott, KM AchutaRao… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014‏ - hal.science
This chapter assesses the causes of observed changes assessed in Chapters 2 to 5 and
uses understanding of physical processes, climate models and statistical approaches. The …

Large near-term projected snowpack loss over the western United States

JC Fyfe, C Derksen, L Mudryk, GM Flato… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Peak runoff in streams and rivers of the western United States is strongly influenced by
melting of accumulated mountain snowpack. A significant decline in this resource has a …