Climate change and the aridification of North America

Colorado River flow dwindles as warming-driven loss of reflective snow energizes evaporation

(2020) P. C. D. Milly et al.   SCIENCE

Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

(2020) Angeline G. Pendergrass et al.   Nature Climate Change

Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States’ largest river basin

(2020) Justin T. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

(2020) A. Park Williams et al.   SCIENCE

Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils

(2019) Xanthe J. Walker et al.   NATURE

Mid-latitude freshwater availability reduced by projected vegetation responses to climate change

(2019) Justin S. Mankin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Assessing recent declines in Upper Rio Grande runoff efficiency from a paleoclimate perspective

(2017) Flavio Lehner et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The twenty-first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future

(2017) Bradley Udall et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Dependence of drivers affects risks associated with compound events

(2017) Jakob Zscheischler et al.   Science Advances

Increasing influence of air temperature on upper Colorado River streamflow

(2016) Connie A. Woodhouse et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

(2016) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extraordinary heat during the 1930s US Dust Bowl and associated large-scale conditions

(2015) Markus G. Donat et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California

(2015) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Depletion and Capture: Revisiting “The Source of Water Derived from Wells”

(2014) L.F. Konikow et al.   Groundwater

Mega-heatwave temperatures due to combined soil desiccation and atmospheric heat accumulation

(2014) Diego G. Miralles et al.   Nature Geoscience

Understanding Uncertainties in Future Colorado River Streamflow

(2013) Julie A. Vano et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

The importance of warm season warming to western U.S. streamflow changes

(2011) Tapash Das et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review

(2010) Sonia I. Seneviratne et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Megadroughts in North America: placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long-term palaeoclimate context

(2009) Edward R. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions

(2009) Susan Solomon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA