Western United States

McAfee SA, Russel JL.  2008.  Northern Annular Mode impact on spring climate in the western United States. Geophysical Research Letters. 35

Woodhouse CA, Gray ST, Meko DM.  2006.  Updated streamflow reconstructions for the Upper Colorado River Basin. Water Resources Research. 42

Gutzler DS, Kann DM, Thornbrugh C.  2002.  Modulation of ENSO-based long-lead outlooks of Southwestern US winter precipitation by the Pacific decadal oscillation. Weather and Forecasting. 17:1163-1172.

Diffenbaugh NS, Pal JS, Trapp RJ, Giorgi F.  2005.  Fine-scale processes regulate the response of extreme events to global climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102:15774-15778.

McCabe GJ, Betancourt JL, Hidalgo HG.  2007.  Associations of decadal to multidecadal sea-surface temperature variability with Upper Colorado River flow. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 43:183-192.

Pagano TC, Hartmann HC, Sorooshian S.  2001.  Using climate forecasts for water management: Arizona and the 1997-1998 El Nino. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 37:1139-1153.

Jacobs KL, Garfin GM, Morehouse BJ.  2005.  Climate science and drought planning: The Arizona experience. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 41:437-445.

Hidalgo HG, Dracup JA.  2003.  ENSO and PDO effects on hydroclimatic variations of the Upper Colorado River basin. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 4:5-23.

Biondi F, Gershunov A, Cayan DR.  2001.  North Pacific decadal climate variability since 1661. Journal of Climate. 14:5-10.

Herweijer C, Seager R, Cook ER, Emile-Geay J.  2007.  North American droughts of the last millennium from a gridded network of tree-ring data. Journal of Climate. 20:1353-1376.