The Perfect Ocean for Drought

By M. Hoerling, Arun Kumar. Science, 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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• Atmospheric bridge, oceanic tunnel, and global climatic teleconnections (2007, neutral): “[2001a, 2004] and Hoerling and Kumar [2003] (Figure 9) indicate that some of the trend in the”
• The 2010 spring drought reduced primary productivity in southwestern China (2012, background): “The global land area affected by drought has significantly increased during the last five decades, particularly in the northern hemisphere (Easterling et al 2000, Hoerling and Kumar 2003, Meehl and Tebaldi 2004).”
• Response of freshwater mussel assemblages (Bivalvia:Unionidae) to a record drought in the Gulf Coastal Plain of southwestern Georgia (2004, background): “Persistent droughts have occurred in the region in the 1930s, 1950s, 1980s, and late 1990s (Golden and Hess 1991).”
• Continental heat anomalies and the extreme melting of the Greenland ice surface in 2012 and 1889 (2014, background): “In Figure S12, the SST pattern in the equatorial Pacific in July 1889 is that corresponding to the “perfect ocean for drought” in North America (with a cold eastern equatorial Pacific and warm western Pacific south of Japan) [Hoerling and Kumar, 2003] and the optimal SST forcing for drought [Shin et”
• Amphibian species richness across environmental gradients (2007, background): “The ESGR experienced a strong drought commencing in the late summer and fall of 1998 (Hoerling and Kumar 2003); most ponds held water in July of 1998 but by the end of that fall nearly 80% of the ponds were dry.”
• Comparative landscape dynamics of two anuran species: climate-driven interaction of local and regional processes (2009, background): “The ENSO event in the South Pacific (Hoerling and Kumar 2003) had strong effects on the ESGR Pseudacris; the chorus frog transitioned from a relatively rare and narrowly distributed species to an abundant and widely distributed species as the drought transformed the ESGR landscape to one with more…”
• Role of Nonlinear Atmospheric Response to SST on the Asymmetric Transition Process of ENSO (2009, background): “The duration of a cold episode can cause severe droughts, such as those that took place in central Asia from 1999 to 2001 and are thought to be associated with the continuance of cold ENSO events (e.g., Hoerling and Kumar 2003; Ueda and Kawamura 2004).”
• Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions (2004, background): “Then, in 1998, another step-wise adjustment may have occurred, as the eastern Pacific turned cold (burying heat), becoming “The perfect ocean for drought” (Hoerling and Kumar 2003), as cool waters evaporate slowly.”