Abstract: The influence of the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) on important hydroclimatic variables during years of neutral ENSO for 84 climate divisions in the western United States is analyzed from 1925 to 1998. When the 34 ...

Abstract: Recent studies indicate that correlations between ENSO and winter precipitation in the southwestern United States may vary with the phase of the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO). In-phase relationships between ENSO and ...

Abstract: The winter (December?February) of 2005/06 ranked as the driest in the instrumental record (since 1895) for nearly all regions of Arizona. The city of Phoenix, Arizona, recorded no precipitation during this time period, ...

Abstract: Previous wildfire research in the United States has been focused primarily on the western states. Much of this research has discovered relationships between wildfire variability and atmospheric teleconnections. Thus far, ...