California has experienced a dry 21st century capped by severe drought from 2012 through 2015 prompting questions about hydroclimatic sensitivity to anthropogenic climate change and implications for the future. We address these questions using a Holocene lake sediment record of hydrologic change from the Sierra Nevada Mountains coupled with marine sediment records from the Pacific. These data provide evidence of a persistent relationship between past climate warming, Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) shifts and centennial to millennial episodes of California aridity.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/prolonged-california-aridity-linked-climate-warming-and-pacific-sea-surface
[2] http://www.nature.com/articles/srep33325
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/glen-m-macdonald
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/katrina-moser
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/amy-m-bloom-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/scientific-reports
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/droughts
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-science
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/california
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sedimentation
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hydrology
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/lakes
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/oceans-and-seas
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/salinity