How has human-induced climate change affected California drought risk?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 111-120

  Cheng, Linyin ^a   Hoerling, Martin ^b   Aghakouchak, Amir ^c   Livneh, Ben ^d   Quan, Xiao Wei ^d   Eischeid, Jon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models; Models and modeling; Physical meteorology and climatology; Regional models

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; WATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; CUMULATIVE PRECIPITATION; MODEL EXPERIMENTATIONS; REGIONAL MODEL; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84956593396     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0260.1     Document Type: Article

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