Abstract: he utility of a combined modified climate extremes index (mCEI) is presented for monitoring coherent trends in multiple types of climate extremes across large regions. Its usefulness lies in its ability to distill complex ...

Abstract: A revised framework is presented that quantifies observed changes in the climate of the contiguous United States through analysis of a revised version of the U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI). The CEI is based on a set of ...

Abstract: The global climate in 2000 was again influenced by the long?running Pacific cold episode (La Niña) that began in mid?1998. Consistent with past cold episodes, enhanced convection occurred across the climatologically ...