A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States

ER Siirila-Woodburn, AM Rhoades… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is decreasing seasonal snowpacks globally, with potentially
catastrophic consequences on water resources, given the long-held reliance on snowpack …

Geomorphic and sedimentary effects of modern climate change: current and anticipated future conditions in the western United States

AE East, JB Sankey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been
documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far …

Quantifying contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcings on increased fire weather risk over the western United States

Y Zhuang, R Fu, BD Santer… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Previous studies have identified a recent increase in wildfire activity in the western United
States (WUS). However, the extent to which this trend is due to weather pattern changes …

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 …

Snow and climate: Feedbacks, drivers, and indices of change

CW Thackeray, C Derksen, CG Fletcher… - Current Climate Change …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Highlight significant developments that have recently been
made to enhance our understanding of how snow responds to climate forcing and the role …

Pattern recognition methods to separate forced responses from internal variability in climate model ensembles and observations

RCJ Wills, DS Battisti, KC Armour… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Ensembles of climate model simulations are commonly used to separate externally forced
climate change from internal variability. However, much of the information gained from …

Projected changes in interannual variability of peak snowpack amount and timing in the Western United States

AM Marshall, JT Abatzoglou, TE Link… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Interannual variability of mountain snowpack has important consequences for ecological
and socioeconomic systems, yet changes in variability have not been widely examined …

Partitioning uncertainty in projections of Arctic sea ice

DB Bonan, F Lehner, MM Holland - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Improved knowledge of the contributing sources of uncertainty in projections of Arctic sea ice
over the 21st century is essential for evaluating impacts of a changing Arctic environment …

Anthropogenic warming has ushered in an era of temperature-dominated droughts in the western United States

Y Zhuang, R Fu, J Lisonbee, AM Sheffield… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Historically, meteorological drought in the western United States (WUS) has been driven
primarily by precipitation deficits. However, our observational analysis shows that, since …

[HTML][HTML] Uncovering the forced climate response from a single ensemble member using statistical learning

S Sippel, N Meinshausen, A Merrifield… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Uncovering the Forced Climate Response from a Single Ensemble Member Using Statistical
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