Abstract: The North American summer monsoon holds the key to understanding warm season rainfall variations in the region from northern Mexico to the Southwest and the central United States. Studies of the monsoon have pictured mosaic ...

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Abstract: Although affected by atmospheric circulations, variations in soil temperature result primarily from the radiation and sensible and latent heat exchanges at the surface and heat transfer in the soils of different thermal ...

Abstract: nterannual and multidecadal time-scale anomalies in sea surface temperatures (SST) of the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans could result in persistent atmospheric circulation and regional precipitation anomalies for ...

Abstract: The following questions are addressed in this study using an array of data and statistical methods: 1) does the North American monsoon region have a single dominant monsoon system; 2) if it has more than one, what are they; ...

Abstract: Summer rainfall in the central United States has singular interannual variations of a 3?6-yr period. Identifying the causes of these variations assures improvement in predictions of summer rainfall in the region. A review ...

Abstract: This study continues the investigation of causes of the interannual variations in summer rainfall in the central United States. A previous study by the authors showed that the ENSO teleconnection significantly affected the ...

Abstract: The ?land memory? refers to an interseasonal predictability of the summer monsoon rainfall in the southwestern United States, describing a relationship of the summer monsoon rainfall anomaly with anomalies in the antecedent ...

Abstract: Recent studies have identified a connection between the summer monsoon rainfall in the southwest United States and anomalies of the antecedent winter precipitation and snowpack in the northwest United States. This connection ...

Abstract: Observational studies have created a dilemma on how El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) may have affected interannual variations of summer rainfall in northern China; some suggested a consistent effect while others showed ...