oriented overturning cell that transports tropical air away from the equator in the upper atmosphere, and returns air from outside the tropics back toward the equator at lower levels in the atmosphere ...

than its effect on precipitation patterns. Since El Niño changes the circulation of the atmosphere all around the world, it essentially changes where we expect rain to fall by steering storms to diffe ...

circulation, as the rising air branches out to the north and south at higher levels in the atmosphere. El Niño's warmer-than-average central/eastern Pacific surface moves this engine eastward, weakeni ...

a perfect climate model (for example, physical relationships between and within the ocean and atmosphere are perfectly understood and coded into the model). In seasonal climate prediction, signal can ...

of incorporating climate-change scenarios into long-term estimates of water supply and demand. In May 2013, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed an Executive Order directing the CWCB and its par ...

research investigating the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative's (PICCC) achievements in the Hawaiian Islands between 2009 and 2018. Based on interviews and a survey, the report describes the f ...

series of nine atmospheric rivers starting in late December 2022 through mid-January 2023 dropped feet of rain and snow across California and other parts of the West Coast, according to a special drou ...

intervals for these values are also included, as are the partial duration rainfall series used in their computation. Regional extreme rainfall maps and graphic products are also available. Precipitati ...

predictable signal, like from ENSO. The NMME average forecast for this winter (2), shown in the top left below, closely resembles the expected El Niño precipitation pattern and features similarities w ...

imagery, (2) affected areas of sea level rise on US coastal regions, (3) changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration, and (4) changes in surface air temperature. Each visualization clearly states the ra ...