Accelerated lagged compound floods and droughts in northwest North America under 1.5° C− 4° C global warming levels

R Rezvani, M RahimiMovaghar, W Na, MR Najafi - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
The recent upsurge in the occurrence of hydroclimatic extremes and their temporal swings
has led to severe consequences in many regions around the world. In this study, we …

California's 2023 snow deluge: Contextualizing an extreme snow year against future climate change

AM Marshall, JT Abatzoglou, S Rahimi… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The increasing prevalence of low snow conditions in a warming climate has attracted
substantial attention in recent years, but a focus exclusively on low snow leaves high snow …

Climate change increases predation risk for a keystone species of the boreal forest

MJL Peers, YN Majchrzak, AK Menzies… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) and snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) form a keystone
predator–prey cycle that has large impacts on the North American boreal forest vertebrate …

Lagged compound dry and wet spells in Northwest North America under 1.5° C–4° C global warming levels

R Rezvani, W Na, MR Najafi - Atmospheric Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing variability and rapid transitions between hydroclimatic extremes and their
compounding economic and environmental effects can cause severe consequences …

Evolution of global snow drought characteristics from 1850 to 2100

M Cowherd, LR Leung, M Girotto - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Seasonal snow is an integral part of the global water supply and storage system. Snow
droughts impact ecological, agricultural, and urban systems by altering the amount and …

A review of user perceptions of Drought indices and indicators used in the Diverse climates of North America

RR Heim Jr, D Bathke, B Bonsal, EWT Cooper… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
Drought monitoring and early detection have improved greatly in recent decades through
the development and refinement of numerous indices and indicators. However, a lack of …

Nonstationary frequency analysis of compound flooding in Canada's coastal zones

FJ Pirani, MR Najafi - Coastal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic forcings, associated with climate and land use changes, can substantially
alter the characteristics of flood mechanisms and their spatiotemporal interactions …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation and joint projection of temperature and precipitation extremes across Canada based on hierarchical Bayesian modelling and large ensembles of …

H Singh, MR Najafi, A Cannon - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2022 - Elsevier
Individual and joint variations of extreme temperature and precipitation are assessed across
Canada using the large ensemble of Canadian Regional Climate Model simulations …

The effect of climate change on the simulated streamflow of six Canadian rivers based on the CanRCM4 regional climate model

VK Arora, A Lima, R Shrestha - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2025 - hess.copernicus.org
The effect of climate change on the hydro-climatology, particularly the streamflow, of six
major Canadian rivers (Mackenzie, Yukon, Columbia, Fraser, Nelson, and St. Lawrence) is …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation and interpretation of convolutional long short-term memory networks for regional hydrological modelling

S Anderson, V Radić - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
Deep learning has emerged as a useful tool across geoscience disciplines; however, there
remain outstanding questions regarding the suitability of unexplored model architectures …