Tree rings reveal unmatched 2nd century drought in the Colorado River Basin

S Gangopadhyay, CA Woodhouse… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing 22‐year drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) has been
extremely severe, even in the context of the longest available tree‐ring reconstruction of …

Pollen-based evidence of extreme drought during the last Glacial (32.6–9.0 ka) in coastal southern California

LE Heusser, ME Kirby, JE Nichols - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
High resolution pollen analyses of sediment core LEDC10-1 from Lake Elsinore yield the
first well-dated, terrestrial record of sub-centennial-scale ecologic change in coastal …

Holocene paleoclimate change in the western US: the importance of chronology in discerning patterns and drivers

SRH Zimmerman, DB Wahl - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Sediment in lakes and meadows forms a powerful archive that can be used to reconstruct
environmental change through time. Reconstructions of lake level, of chemical, biological …

Prolonged California aridity linked to climate warming and Pacific sea surface temperature

GM MacDonald, KA Moser, AM Bloom, AP Potito… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
California has experienced a dry 21st century capped by severe drought from 2012 through
2015 prompting questions about hydroclimatic sensitivity to anthropogenic climate change …

Evidence for insolation and Pacific forcing of late glacial through Holocene climate in the Central Mojave Desert (Silver Lake, CA)

ME Kirby, EJ Knell, WT Anderson, MS Lachniet… - Quaternary …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Silver Lake is the modern terminal playa of the Mojave River in southern California (USA).
As a result, it is well located to record both influences from the winter precipitation dominated …

Inferring climate variability from nonlinear proxies: application to palaeo-ENSO studies

J Emile-Geay, M Tingley - Climate of the Past, 2016 - cp.copernicus.org
Inferring climate from palaeodata frequently assumes a direct, linear relationship between
the two, which is seldom met in practice. Here we simulate an idealized proxy characterized …

A North American hydroclimate synthesis (NAHS) of the Common Era

JR Rodysill, L Anderson, TM Cronin, MC Jones… - Global and planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study presents a synthesis of century-scale hydroclimate variations in North America for
the Common Era (last 2000 years) using new age models of previously published multiple …