The effects of El Niño on rainfall, trade winds, cyclones, sea level and ocean conditions in the Marshall Islands.
A science assessment by a subgroup of the NOAA Drought Task Force. Recognizing the sensitivity of likely impacts on California winter precipitation to El Niño intensity, and also recognizing the spread of possible outcomes even for a very strong El Niño, the outlook must be expressed probabilistically.
Typical El Niño winter weather pattern, temperature and precipitation outlooks, potential impacts, past El Niños.
Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook Alaska September 2015. Climate, Drought, Impacts.
Two-pager for the NIDIS Southern California meeting, July 7, 2015 in LaJolla, California.
NIDIS' California Drought Early Warning System held drought outlook meeting on July 7 at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. Attendees include researchers as well as public and private sector partners, who offered demonstrations and feedback on new tools. Meeting summary and next steps report.
How different El Niños have affected California at different times, and their relative strengths. A strong El Niño can result in a continuing drought year like water year 1992, an average year like 1973, or a wet year like 1983, so there is not a certain cause and effect relationship between precipitation and El Niño.
Synopsis of Ohio River Basin Climate Change Pilot Study Report.
Report from first-ever meeting of state drought coordinators, emergency managers and state climatologists from across the West on July 21-22, 2015, to discuss emerging best practices in forecasting, planning for and responding to drought, and recent lessons learned. Held in Seattle, WA, hosted by NOAA, NIDIS, National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) and the Western Governors’ Association (WGA). Representatives from 16 of the 19 states within WGA attended (AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MT, NB, NV, NM, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY).
Summary of needs from the NOAA NIDIS Drought Forum on May 16, 2014 in Sacramento, CA. Summary is broken out by theme.