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Prolonged California aridity linked to climate warming and Pacific sea surface temperature

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, September 2016
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Title
Prolonged California aridity linked to climate warming and Pacific sea surface temperature
Published in
Scientific Reports, September 2016
DOI 10.1038/srep33325
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Authors

Glen M. MacDonald, Katrina A. Moser, Amy M. Bloom, Aaron P. Potito, David F. Porinchu, James R. Holmquist, Julia Hughes, Konstantine V. Kremenetski

Abstract

California has experienced a dry 21(st) century capped by severe drought from 2012 through 2015 prompting questions about hydroclimatic sensitivity to anthropogenic climate change and implications for the future. We address these questions using a Holocene lake sediment record of hydrologic change from the Sierra Nevada Mountains coupled with marine sediment records from the Pacific. These data provide evidence of a persistent relationship between past climate warming, Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) shifts and centennial to millennial episodes of California aridity. The link is most evident during the thermal-maximum of the mid-Holocene (~8 to 3 ka; ka = 1,000 calendar years before present) and during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) (~1 ka to 0.7 ka). In both cases, climate warming corresponded with cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific despite differences in the factors producing increased radiative forcing. The magnitude of prolonged eastern Pacific cooling was modest, similar to observed La Niña excursions of 1(o) to 2 °C. Given differences with current radiative forcing it remains uncertain if the Pacific will react in a similar manner in the 21st century, but should it follow apparent past behavior more intense and prolonged aridity in California would result.

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Country Count As %
Puerto Rico 1 2%
Unknown 55 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 21%
Student > Master 8 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Professor 3 5%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 15 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 13 23%
Environmental Science 9 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 16%
Engineering 4 7%
Social Sciences 3 5%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 15 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 271. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 May 2021.
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#133,487
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#1,648
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#2,696
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