The availability of global gridded precipitation and outgoing long-wave radiation (OLR) data after 1978 makes possible an investigation of the influence of the decadal solar oscillation in the tropics during three solar maxima and two solar minima. The NCEP/NCAR reanalyses starting in the 1950s allows the inclusion of an additional two solar maxima and minima to look for consistency of response...

The interpretation of model precipitation output (e.g., as a gridpoint estimate versus as an areal mean) has a large impact on the evaluation and comparison of simulated daily extreme rainfall indices from climate models. It is first argued that interpretation as a gridpoint estimate (i.e., corresponding to station data) is incorrect. The impacts of this interpretation versus the areal mean int...

[1] This study investigates relationships between variability in the Pacific and extreme rainfall in eastern Australia. Using an index of extreme precipitation derived from a daily gridded precipitation data set from 1900 to 2011, we find that a nonlinear relationship between El Niño–Southern Oscillation and extreme rainfall exists. That is, the strength of a La Niña episode has a much greater ...

[1] The stable H and O isotope composition of river and stream water records information on runoff sources and land‐atmosphere water fluxes within the catchment and is a potentially powerful tool for network‐based monitoring of ecohydrological systems. Process‐based hydrological models, however, have thus far shown limited power to replicate observed large‐scale variation in U.S. surface water ...

A mesoscale climate data set is created from simulations with a regional (limited area) model over West Africa on a 0.5 grid, covering six summers (June– September), 1998–2003. The Regional Model 3 (RM3) is the latest version run at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the (Columbia University) Center for Climate Systems Research. RM3 simulat...

An approach to developing a blended satellite-rainfall dataset over Australia that could be suitable for operational use is presented. In this study, Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) satellite precipitation estimates were with station-based rain gauge data Australia, using station has not been harnessed by other products. A two-step method was utilized. First, GSMaP adjusted th...