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  1. Assessing Mechanisms of Climate Change Impact on the Upland Forest Water Balance of the Willamette River Basin, Oregon

    Projected changes in air temperature, precipitation, and vapor pressure for the Willamette River Basin (Oregon, USA) over the next century will have significant impacts on the river basin water balance, notably...

  2. Finding Water Scarcity Amid Abundance Using Human–Natural System Models

    Water scarcity afflicts societies worldwide. Anticipating water shortages is vital because of water’s indispensable role in social-ecological systems. But the challenge is daunting due to heterogeneity,...

  3. Short-tailed temperature distributions over North America and Implications for Future Changes in Extremes

    Some regions of North America exhibit nonnormal temperature distributions. Shorter-than-Gaussian warm tails are a special subset of these cases, with potentially meaningful implications for future changes in...

  4. Precipitation Intensity Trend Detection using Hourly and Daily Observations in Portland, Oregon

    The intensity of precipitation is expected to increase in response to climate change, but the regions where this may occur are unclear. The lack of certainty from climate models warrants an examination of...

  5. Quantifying Resilience of Multiple Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in a Temperate Forest Landscape

    Resilience is increasingly being considered as a new paradigm of forest management among scientists, practitioners, and policymakers. However, metrics of resilience to environmental change are lacking. Faced...

  6. Southern Annular Mode Drives Multicentury Wildfire Activity in Southern South America

    The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the main driver of climate variability at mid to high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere, affecting wildfire activity, which in turn pollutes the air and contributes to...

  7. The Geography of Glaciers and Perennial Snowfields in the American West

    A comprehensive mid-20th century inventory of glaciers and perennial snowfields (G&PS) was compiled for the American West, west of the 100° meridian. The inventory was derived from U.S. Geological Survey...

  8. Can Significant Trends be Detected in Surface Air Temperature and Precipitation Over South America in Recent Decades?

    Trends in near-surface air temperature and precipitation over South America are examined for the periods 1975–2004 and 1955–2004, respectively, using multiple observational and climate model data sets. The...

  9. Impact of Soil Moisture–Atmosphere Interactions on Surface Temperature Distribution

    Understanding how different physical processes can shape the probability distribution function (PDF) of surface temperature, in particular the tails of the distribution, is essential for the attribution and...

  10. Characterizing Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns and Associated Temperature and Precipitation Extremes over the...

    The self-organizing maps (SOMs) approach is demonstrated as a way to identify a range of archetypal large-scale meteorological patterns (LSMPs) over the northwestern United States and connect these patterns...

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