The Nov 20, 2014 Southwest Climate Outlook (SWCO) includes a regional climate summary, an update on El Niño, Arizona and New Mexico reservoir levels, a look back at the tropical storms that impacted the southwest in 2014, and a reminder about the CLIMAS video podcast series on youtube (read more)
After a year of research, The Climate Assessment for the Southwest’s first Climate and Society Fellows will present the results of their work on Friday, November 14, from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., in room 531 of the Marshall Building.
The Climate & Society Graduate Fellows Program supports currently enrolled University of Arizona graduate students. The fellows are given $5,000 and a year to work on a specific project of their choice. While their work must be focused around climate research and decision making, they can come from any degree-granting program. (read more)
Very warm conditions and a couple of unusually wet days characterized the weather of October across Arizona (read more)
On September 10-11, 25 scientists and natural resource managers met at the offices of the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), in El Paso, Texas. Their goal was to use strategic scenario planning techniques to gain insight into environmental and natural resource planning under highly uncertain conditions. Participants included climatologists, meteorologists, geologists, hydrologists, ecologists, biologists, and environmental economists, representing a range of U.S. and Mexican federal agencies, state agencies, universities, and non-governmental organizations. (read more)
Next up in our new series featuring video mini-segments from the podcast. This segment comes from the September 2014 SW Climate Podcast - and covers the impacts of Norbert and Odile in the Southwest - as part of the 2014 Eastern Pacific Tropical Storm Season (read more)
In the October Southwest Climate Podcast, CLIMAS climate scientists Zack Guido and Mike Crimmins discuss the 2014 monsoon, focusing on the influence of tropical storm systems, record and near-record precipitation events, monsoon intensity and duration, and the ever-present promise of El Niño. (read more)
Next up in our new series featuring video mini-segments from the podcast. This segment comes from the September 2014 SW Climate Podcast - and covers ENSO models and El Niño forecasts (read more)
Looking back on the 2014 monsoon, a simple characterization of the season as ‘normal’ or ‘average’ (or above or below these thresholds) is difficult, given the spatial and temporal variability of monsoon storms. The cumulative seasonal totals provide one way of characterizing the monsoon, and by those metrics, the Southwest saw an average to above-average summer rainy season, with much of Arizona and New Mexico receiving well above-average rainfall. (read more)
This post was originally published as part of the October 2014 Southwest Climate Outlook
An El Niño Watch, issued by the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC), continues for the seventh consecutive month as signs of an emerging El Niño are just on the horizon, but not quite here yet. Another slug of warm water (also known as a Kelvin wave), has been making its way across the Pacific Ocean from west to east just below the surface and is poised to emerge and help warm sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific over the next month or so...(read more)
This post was originally published as part of the October 2014 Southwest Climate Outlook
Next up in our new series featuring video mini-segments from the podcast. This segment comes from the September 2014 SW Climate Podcast - and covers Tropical Storm Climatology in the Southwest (read more)
