Lesley L. Smith – Extreme California Precip

All plots preliminary.        


Extreme Precipitation in California

(CA DWR activity 6 subproject 2)

All nClimDiv daily precipitation data from A.Hoell.

 

ERA5 Anomalies corresponding to nClimDiv Precip exceedances

MJO amplitude > 1 and Phases 4,5,6, or 7 at least 3 times between lags -15 days and -1 days
7-day accumulations
Using 20-year antecedent climatologies
South California 67 percentile at multiple lags
Positive_PNA







Negative_PNA