2008 Fall Meeting
A 1000-year record of yearly hurricane activity from Boston, Massachusetts
Recent studies suggest that hurricane activity may be increasing due to human-induced global warming. However, assessing recent trends in the context of natural hurricane variability is difficult because instrumental records extend back only about 130 years.
Recent drought in northwestern Africa heralds drier conditions to come
Human-induced climate change is projected to cause drier conditions in the midlatitudes. To assess whether the onset of drier conditions has already begun.
A new approach to understanding hydrologic predictability
In the American West, deep spring snowpacks reliably explain most variations in subsequent spring and summer runoff. At other times of year, forecasters must depend more heavily on soil moisture conditions and the predictab
