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Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity
- A. L. Westerling, H. Hidalgo, D. Cayan, T. Swetnam
- Geography, Medicine
- Science
- 18 August 2006
Western United States forest wildfire activity is widely thought to have increased in recent decades, yet neither the extent of recent changes nor the degree to which climate may be driving regional… Expand
Changes in the Onset of Spring in the Western United States
- D. Cayan, S. A. Kammerdiener, M. Dettinger, J. M. Caprio, D. Peterson
- Geography, Physics
- 1 March 2001
Abstract Fluctuations in spring climate in the western United States over the last 4–5 decades are described by examining changes in the blooming of plants and the timing of snowmelt–runoff pulses.… Expand
Changes toward Earlier Streamflow Timing across Western North America
- I. Stewart, D. Cayan, M. Dettinger
- Geology
- 15 April 2005
Abstract The highly variable timing of streamflow in snowmelt-dominated basins across western North America is an important consequence, and indicator, of climate fluctuations. Changes in the timing… Expand
Latent and sensible heat flux anomalies over the northern oceans : driving the sea surface temperature
- D. Cayan
- Geology
- 1 August 1992
Abstract A part of the large-scale thermodynamic forcing of the upper ocean is examined by relating monthly anomalous latent and sensible heat flux to changes in sea surface temperature (SST)… Expand
Climate change scenarios for the California region
- D. Cayan, E. Maurer, M. Dettinger, M. Tyree, K. Hayhoe
- Economics
- 26 January 2008
To investigate possible future climate changes in California, a set of climate change model simulations was selected and evaluated. From the IPCC Fourth Assessment, simulations of twenty-first… Expand
Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California.
- K. Hayhoe, D. Cayan, +16 authors J. H. Verville
- Medicine, Environmental Science
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 24 August 2004
The magnitude of future climate change depends substantially on the greenhouse gas emission pathways we choose. Here we explore the implications of the highest and lowest Intergovernmental Panel on… Expand
North Pacific Decadal Climate Variability since 1661
- F. Biondi, A. Gershunov, D. Cayan
- Geology
- 2001
Abstract Climate in the North Pacific and North American sectors has experienced interdecadal shifts during the twentieth century. A network of recently developed tree-ring chronologies for Southern… Expand
Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States
- T. Barnett, D. Pierce, +9 authors M. Dettinger
- Medicine, Geography
- Science
- 22 February 2008
Observations have shown that the hydrological cycle of the western United States changed significantly over the last half of the 20th century. We present a regional, multivariable climate change… Expand
Atmospheric Rivers, Floods and the Water Resources of California
- M. Dettinger, F. Ralph, T. Das, P. Neiman, D. Cayan
- Geology
- 24 March 2011
California's highly variable climate and growing water demands combine to pose both water-supply and flood-hazard challenges to resource managers. Recently important efforts to more fully integrate… Expand
North–South Precipitation Patterns in Western North America on Interannual-to-Decadal Timescales
- M. D. Dettinger, D. Cayan, H. Diaz, D. Meko
- Geology
- 1 December 1998
The overall amount of precipitation deposited along the West Coast and western cordillera of North America from 258 to 558N varies from year to year, and superimposed on this domain-average… Expand