New Study: Drought In Western US Is 84% Driven By Internal Variability And 16% By Ocean Cooling
By Kenneth Richard on 1. March 2021
An assessment of the 1856-2012 drought frequency/intensity along the US West Coast leaves no role for human activity in hydroclimate.
Across the globe, no clear precipitation trends have been observed in the last several decades (Nguyen et al., 2018)
Image Source: Nguyen et al., 2018
Instead of an intensification of the hydrological cycle projected by climate models (i.e., more droughts, floods, and extreme rainfall events), satellite data suggest extreme precipitation has actually de-intensified globally (Koutsoyiannis, 2020).
https://notrickszone.com/2021/03/01/new-study-drought-in-western-us-is-84-driven-by-internal-variability-and-16-by-ocean-cooling/
