Event
California Drought 2011 - 2017
California
Persistent hot and dry weather led to years of acute drought in California from 2011 through 2017, an event worsened by climate change. The fingerprint of climate change is seen in rising temperatures and changing atmospheric patterns conducive to diminishing rains. The first link is firmly established, and there is a considerable and growing body of evidence supporting the second. Weather records tend to be broken when both natural and human-driven trends run in the same direction, in this case towards warmer temperatures that are increasing California drought risk.
Jul 3, 2019 | Mashable
The hard truth about being a 21st century tree in California
Jan 25, 2018 | NOAA Climate.gov
In some places, experimental NOAA models could have predicted Western snow drought eight months in advance
Sep 15, 2017 | Stanford News
New portal for exploring California’s drought
Resource
Jan 30, 2017 | Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Graph: California Annual Average Temperature 1895 - 2016
Resource
Jan 13, 2017 | US Drought Monitor, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
Map: US Drought Monitor California, January 10, 2017
Resource
Jan 5, 2017 | California Cooperative Snow Surveys
Chart: California Annual Water Conditions on April 1, 2004 - 2016
Dec 5, 2017 | Nature Communications
Future loss of Arctic sea-ice cover could drive a substantial decrease in California’s rainfall
Jun 15, 2018 | AMS Journal of Climate
Is There a Role for Human-Induced Climate Change in the Precipitation Decline that Drove the California Drought?
Nov 10, 2017 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Emerging stress and relative resiliency of Giant Sequoia groves experiencing multi-year dry periods in a warming climate
California Drought 2011 - 2017
Related Content
Science Source
| Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
EEE 2013: Causes of the Extreme Dry Conditions Over California During Early 2013
Hailan Wang and Siegfried Schubert
Science Source
| Nature Climate Change
California from drought to deluge
S.-Y. Simon Wang, Jin-Ho Yoon, Emily Becker and Robert Gillies
Science Source
| AMS Journal of Climate
Causes of the 2011–14 California Drought
Richard Seager, Martin Hoerling, Siegfried Schubert et al
Headline
Aug 22, 2017 | NPR.org
California's Forests Continue To Die After Years Of Drought