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Kevin J. Anchukaitis
Professor, The University of Arizona
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Anthropogenic Intensification of Cool‐Season Precipitation Is Not Yet Detectable Across the Western United States
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
11 june 2024
Park Williams, Karen A. McKinnon, Kevin J. Anchuka...

The cool season (November–March) of 2022–2023 was exceptional in the western United States (US), with the highest precipitation totals ...

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Chronology and climate context for medieval megadrought in the eastern Sierra Nevada
CLIMATE OF THE COMMON ERA I ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 13 december 2023
Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Julie Edwards, Edward R. Coo...
The presence of relict trees rooted in lakes and rivers in the eastern Sierra region of California provides evidence for past megadroughts in western ...
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How Exceptional Was the 2015–2019 Central American Drought?
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
04 november 2023
Talia Anderson, Karen A. McKinnon, Diego Pons, Kev...

The Central American Dry Corridor experienced five consecutive years of drought from 2015 to 2019. Here, we find that the severity of this drought ...

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The Severity of the 2014–2015 Snow Drought in the Oregon Cascades in a Multicentury Context
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
11 may 2023
Laura Dye, Bethany Coulthard, Benjamin Hatchett, I...

The western United States (US) is a hotspot for snow drought. The Oregon Cascade Range is highly sensitive to warming and as a result has experienc...

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A Spatiotemporal Assessment of Extreme Cold in Northwestern North America Following the Unidentified 1809 CE Volcanic Eruption
PALEOCEANOGRAPHY AND PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
08 may 2023
Caroline Leland, Rosanne DArrigo, Nicole K. Davi, ...

Two large volcanic eruptions contributed to extreme cold temperatures during the early 1800s, one of the coldest phases of the Little Ice Age. Whil...

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Coral‐Based Sea Surface Salinity Reconstructions and the Role of Observational Uncertainties in Inferred Variability and Trends
PALEOCEANOGRAPHY AND PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
07 june 2022
Emma Reed, Diane M. Thompson, Kevin J. Anchukaitis

Climate observations in much of the tropical oceans are scarce during most of the 20th century, so paleoclimate proxies are needed to understand th...

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The Origin of Tree‐Ring Reconstructed Summer Cooling in Northern Europe During the 18th Century Eruption of Laki
PALEOCEANOGRAPHY AND PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
01 february 2022
Julie Edwards, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Björn E. Gunn...

Basaltic fissure eruptions, which are characteristic of Icelandic volcanism, are extremely hazardous due to the large quantities of gases and aeros...

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Reconstructed and simulated snowpack variability in the western United States over the last millennium
CLIMATE OF THE COMMON ERA II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 16 december 2021
Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Bethany Coulthard, Nicolas G...
Mountain snowpacks provide essential water supply for human populations and ecosystems in the western United States. Warmer temperatures and changing ...
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