Twentieth-century shifts in forest structure in California: Denser forests, smaller trees, and increased dominance of oaks |
McIntyre, Patrick J., Thorne, James H., Dolanc, Christopher R., Flint, Alan L., Flint, Lorraine E., Kelly, Maggi, and Ackerly, David D. |
2015 |
historical climate, paleoclimates, vegetation distribution |
Causes of the 2011 to 2014 California drought |
Seager, Richard, Martin Hoerling, Siegfried Schubert, Hailan Wang, Bradfield Lyon, Arun Kumar, Jennifer Nakamura, and Naomi Henderson |
2015 |
drought, climate variability, El Niño - Southern Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation |
Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California |
Diffenbaugh, N. S., D. L. Swain, and D. Touma |
2015 |
drought |
America's water risk: Current demand and climate variability |
Devineni, Naresh, Lall, Upmanu, Etienne, Elius, Shi, Daniel, and Xi, Chen |
2015 |
drought, water balance, climate change impacts |
El Niño in California and Nevada |
California-Nevada Climate Applications Program |
2015 |
El Niño - Southern Oscillation, flooding, precipitation |
Artificial amplification of warming trends across the mountains of the western United States |
Oyler, Jared W., Dobrowski, Solomon Z., Ballantyne, Ashley P., Klene, Anna E., and Running, Steven W. |
2015 |
model uncertainty, climate change assessment, temperature trends |
Restoring Walker Meadows: Assessment and Prioritization |
Luke Hunt, Julie Fair, Jacob Dyste, and Max Odland |
2015 |
meadows, restoration, climate-smart conservation, water resources |
Identification of geophysically diverse locations that may facilitate species’ persistence and adaptation to climate change in the southwestern United States |
Albano, Christine M. |
2015 |
geodiversity, landscape conservation planning, climate change adaptation |
Anticipated effects of climate change on coastal upwelling ecosystems |
Bakun, A., B. A. Black, S. J. Bograd, M. García-Reyes, A. J. Miller, R. R. Rykaczewski, and W. J. Sydeman |
2015 |
marine ecosystems, upwelling, climate change impacts |
State of the Climate in 2014 |
Blunden, Jessica, and Derek S. Arndt |
2015 |
climate change, climate monitoring |
Multi-century evaluation of Sierra Nevada snowpack |
Belmecheri, Soumaya, Flurin Babst, Eugene R. Wahl, David W. Stahle, and Valerie Trouet |
2015 |
snow water equivalent, snowpack, historical climate |
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the North-central California Coast and Ocean |
Hutto, Sara V., Higgason, Kelley D., Kershner, Jessie M., Reynier, Whitney A., Gregg, Darrell S. |
2015 |
marine ecosystems, ecosystem services, biodiversity, climate change vulnerability, vulnerability assessment |
Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014 |
Williams, A. Park, Seager, Richard, Abatzoglou, John T., Cook, Benjamin I., Smerdon, Jason E., and Cook, Edward R. |
2015 |
drought, climate change impacts, temperature |
Twenty-first-century challenges in regional climate modeling |
Rummukainen, Markku, Burkhardt Rockel, Lars Bärring, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen, and Marcus Reckermann |
2015 |
regional climate models, climate modeling, downscaling |
Conservation status of North American birds in the face of future climate change |
Langham, Gary M., Schuetz, Justin G., Distler, Trisha, Soykan, Candan U. and Wilsey, Chad |
2015 |
birds, species distributions, biodiversity |
Report Providing Comparison of Adaptation Plans Submitted to the White House in 2014 |
Conners, Hannah M., Kathleen D. White, and Jeffrey R. Arnold |
2015 |
climate change adaptation, federal agencies |