An Overview of 20 th Century Warming and Climate Variability in the Western U.S.

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1 An Overview of 20 th Century Warming and Climate Variability in the Western U.S. Alan F. Hamlet, Philip W. Mote, Nate Mantua, Dennis P. Lettenmaier JISAO/CSES Climate Impacts Group Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington

2 Schematic Diagram for Data Processing of VIC Meteorological Driving Data HCN/HCCD Monthly Data PRISM Monthly Precipitation Maps Preprocessing Regridding Lapse Temperatures Correction to Remove Temporal Inhomogeneities Topographic Correction for Precipitation Coop Daily Data Result: Daily Precipitation, Tmax, Tmin

3 Evaluation of Streamflow Simulations of the Colorado River at Lee s Ferry, AZ

4 Trends in April 1 SWE Mote P.W.,Hamlet A.F., Clark M.P., Lettenmaier D.P., 2005, Declining mountain snowpack in western North America, BAMS, 86 (1): 39-49

5 Cool Season Climate of the Western U.S. PNW GB CA CRB DJF Temp ( C) NDJFM Precip (mm)

6 A Time Series of Temporally Smoothed, Regionally Averaged Met Data for the West

7 Linear Trends in Cool and Warm Season Climate for and (% per century for precip, degrees C per century for temperature) PNW CA CRB GB Precip cool season warm season Tmax cool season warm season Tmin cool season warm season

8 Temperature

9 Regionally Averaged Cool Season Temperature Anomalies PNW CA CRB GB Global (Regional to Global Correlation Coefficient ) TMAX Std Anomalies Relative to (smoothed)

10 Regionally Averaged Cool Season Temperature Anomalies PNW CA CRB GB Global (Regional to Global Correlation Coefficient ) TMIN Std Anomalies Relative to (smoothed)

11 Cool Season TMAX Anomalies Compared to the PDO PNW CA CRB GB PDO (Regional to PDO Correlation Coefficient ) TMAX -1 Std Anomalies Relative to (smoothed)

12 Cool Season TMIN Anomalies Compared to the PDO PNW CA CRB GB PDO (Regional to PDO Correlation Coefficient) TMIN -1 Std Anomalies Relative to (smoothed)

13 Global T and PDO as Predictive Variables for TMAX TMAX R 2 = 0.62 R 2 = 0.05 obs Tmax regression global T only regression PDO only Temporally Smoothed Tmax Anomalies for the West

14 Global T and PDO as Predictive Variables for TMIN Temporally Smoothed Tmin Anomalies for the West 1997 TMIN R 2 = 0.81 R 2 = 0.02 obs Tmin regression global T only regression PDO only

15 Global Climate Models Reproduce These Patterns of Variability at the Global Scale

16 From 1975 onwards, when greenhouse forced warming has arguably been strongest, trends in the PDO have been downwards, if anything suggesting a reduction in the rate of warming associated with decadal variability in the Pacific. Remarks Regarding Temperature The data support the hypothesis that the low frequency variability of global and regional temperatures are robustly coupled, especially for Tmin. Although studies using data only from 1950 forwards have concluded that a substantial component of the observed warming trend in the northern hemisphere is due to decadal climate variability in the Pacific, inclusion of the PDO as a predictor of cool season temperature in the West does not improve skill, whereas global temperatures are a robust predictor.

17 Precipitation

18 Differences in cool and warm season precipitation trends suggest different mechanisms (large-scale advective storms vs. smaller scale convective storms) and differing sensitivity to regional warming. Trends in warm season precipitation in the CRB are very different than the other regions and may function more like cool season precipitation (e.g. related to circulation rather than locally generated storms)

19 Cool Season Precipitation Anomalies Compared to the PDO PNW CA CRB GB PDO (Regional to PDO Correlation R ) Std Anomalies Relative to (smoothed)

20 Regionally Averaged Cool Season Precipitation Anomalies PNW CA CRB GB PRECIP Std Anomalies Relative to

21 Pacific Northwest Cool Season Precipitation CDFs for Three Periods 900 Oct-March Precip (mm) Probability of Exceedence

22 Super ensemble CDFs of PNW winter precipitation for four 30 year time slices from nine GCM simulations 1100 Oct-Mar Precipitation (mm) Sample Size = 270 years Probability of Exceedence

23 Are trends in warm season precipitation and changes in cool season precipitation variability linked to warming? Remarks Regarding Precipitation Trends in cool season precipitation and the summer monsoon in the southwest U.S. are ambiguous and do not seem to be related to regional expressions of global warming. Warm season precipitation in the PNW, CA, and GB, however, seems to be steadily increasing with warming. The PDO is a useful predictor of cool-season precipitation anomalies in the PNW and CRB, but the relationships in the earliest part of the record may be inconsistent with the post 1950 period. Unambiguous changes in cool season precipitation variability have occurred starting in about 1975, coincident with (but not necessarily related to) rapid greenhouse-forced warming.

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