The 1960s drought and the subsequent shift to a wetter climate in the Catskill Mountains region of the New York City watershed

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6721-6742

  Seager, Richard ^a   Pederson, Neil ^a   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Nakamura, Jennifer ^a   Jurburg, Stephanie ^b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b Columbia College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Hydrometeorology; North America

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION VARIABILITY; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODELS; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; HIGH PRESSURE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOW PRESSURES; MIDLATITUDES; NEW YORK CITY; NEW YORK CITY WATERSHED; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SEA SURFACES; STORM TRACK; WET PERIOD;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER RESOURCES;

DROUGHT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; WATERSHED;

APPALACHIANS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CATSKILL MOUNTAINS; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867662015     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00518.1     Document Type: Article

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