How unusual is the 2012-2014 California drought?

Global warming and 21st century drying

(2014) Benjamin I. Cook et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

The contribution of reduction in evaporative cooling to higher surface air temperatures during drought

(2014) Dongqin Yin et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The worst North American drought year of the last millennium: 1934

(2014) Benjamin I. Cook et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Improved Historical Temperature and Precipitation Time Series for U.S. Climate Divisions

(2014) Russell S. Vose et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Atmosphere and Ocean Origins of North American Droughts

(2014) Richard Seager et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia

(2014) N. Pederson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An overview of tree-ring width records across the Northern Hemisphere

(2014) Scott St. George   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Maladaptation to drought: a case report from California, USA

(2014) Juliet Christian-Smith et al.   Sustainability Science

The Ancient Blue Oak Woodlands of California: Longevity and Hydroclimatic History

(2013) D. W. Stahle et al.   Earth Interactions

Projecting North American Climate over the Next 50 Years: Uncertainty due to Internal Variability*

(2013) Clara Deser et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Atmospheric Rivers as Drought Busters on the U.S. West Coast

(2013) Michael D. Dettinger   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

The challenge of hot drought

(2013) Jonathan T. Overpeck   NATURE

Global warming and changes in drought

(2013) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   Nature Climate Change

Probabilistic estimates of future changes in California temperature and precipitation using statistical and dynamical downscaling

(2012) David W. Pierce et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

A 1,200-year perspective of 21st century drought in southwestern North America

(2010) C. A. Woodhouse et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inferring precipitation-anomaly gradients from tree rings

(2010) David M. Meko et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The Magnitude of Decadal and Multidecadal Variability in North American Precipitation*,+

(2009) Toby R. Ault et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

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

Amplification of the North American "Dust Bowl" drought through human-induced land degradation

(2009) B. I. Cook et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA