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Pan Evaporation Trends in Dry and Humid Regions of the United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Decreasing pan evaporation trends in many regions of the world have been viewed as evidence of a decrease in the terrestrial evaporation component of the hydrologic cycle. However, some researchers suggest that the ...
A Revised U.S. Climate Extremes Index
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
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 ...
The REDTI and MSI: Two New National Climate Impact Indices
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Two climate indices that are useful for monitoring the impact of weather and climate on energy usage and crop yields in the United States have been developed at the National Climatic Data Center. The residential energy-demand ...
The Regional Snowfall Index
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: r describes a new snowfall index that quantifies the impact of snowstorms within six climate regions in the United States. The regional snowfall index (RSI) is based on the spatial extent of snowfall accumulation, the ...
Projections of Future Drought in the Continental United States and Mexico
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: sing the Palmer drought severity index, the ability of 19 state-of-the-art climate models to reproduce observed statistics of drought over North America is examined. It is found that correction of substantial biases in the ...
Contemporary Changes of the Hydrological Cycle over the Contiguous United States: Trends Derived from In Situ Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Over the contiguous United States, precipitation, temperature, streamflow, and heavy and very heavy precipitation have increased during the twentieth century. In the east, high streamflow has increased as well. Soil wetness ...
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Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractThe monthly global 2° ? 2° Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) has been revised and updated from version 4 to version 5. This update incorporates a new release of ICOADS release 3.0 (R3.0), a ...
Quality Control and Processing of Cooperative Observer Program Hourly Precipitation Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
U.S. Climate Reference Network after One Decade of Operations: Status and Assessment
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: 2012 marks a decade of observations undertaken by the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) under the auspices of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center and Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division. The network consists ...
NOAA's Merged Land–Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: r describes the new release of the Merged Land?Ocean Surface Temperature analysis (MLOST version 3.5), which is used in operational monitoring and climate assessment activities by the NOAA National Climatic Data Center. ...