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Assessments and Factsheets

2016
  • Causes for Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri River Basin
    • Explaining Hydrologic Extremes in the Upper Missouri River Basin
2015
  • Arctic Change: Implications for Central US Water and Agriculture
    • Presentation
  • The Physics of Great Plains Drought: Its Predictability and Its Changed Risk in a Warmer World
    • Presentation
2014
  • Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts Over the Missouri River Basin
    • Full Assessment Report
    • Summary
  • Webinar: Climate Change and Extreme Weather
  • Webinar: Extreme Weather Attribution
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2013
  • Understanding and Explaining Climate Extremes in the Missouri River Basin Associated with the 2011 Flooding
    • Full Assessment Report
    • Summary
  • An Interpretation of the Origins of the 2012 Central Great Plains Drought
    • Full Assessment Report
    • Summary
2012
  • Climate Change and Hurricane Sandy
  • June Heat in Colorado
  • 2012 March U.S. Heat Wave
2011
  • 2011 Tornado Season
  • Winter Temperatures Influcenced by North Atlantic Oscillation, La Niña
  • North American Seasonal Temperatures
  • 2010 Russian Heat Wave
  • Devil's Lake Hydro-Climate Assessment
2010
  • Causes for Mid-Atlantic Snowstorms 2009/10
2009
  • Monitoring US Annual Temperature
2008
  • Tornado Fact Sheet
2007
  • Attribution of 2007 global terrestrial warmth
  • Diagnosis of Cause(s) for 2007 U.S. Precipitation Extremes
Interpreting Weather and Climate Conditions
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What is attribution?
Why attribution?
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Climate Assessment Resources (FACTS)
Historical Perspective U.S. Weather and Climate Extremes
climate attribution

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