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Midwinter Dry Spells Amplify Post‐Fire Snowpack Decline by Hatchett, Benjamin J., Koshkin, Arielle L., Guirguis, Kristen, Rittger, Karl, Nolin, Anne W., Heggli, Anne, Rhoades, Alan M., East, Amy E., Siirila‐Woodburn, Erica R., Brandt, W. Tyler, Gershunov, Alexander, Haleakala, Kayden

“…Increasing wildfire and declining snowpacks in mountain regions threaten water availability. We combine satellite‐based fire detections with snow seasonality…”
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Decline in Seasonal Snow during a Projected 20-Year Dry Spell by Hatchett, Benjamin J., Rhoades, Alan M., McEvoy, Daniel J.

“…Snowpack loss in midlatitude mountains is ubiquitously projected by Earth system models, though the magnitudes, persistence, and time horizons of decline vary…”
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Sensitivity of Mountain Hydroclimate Simulations in Variable‐Resolution CESM to Microphysics and Horizontal Resolution by Rhoades, Alan M., Ullrich, Paul A., Zarzycki, Colin M., Johansen, Hans, Margulis, Steven A., Morrison, Hugh, Xu, Zexuan, Collins, William D.

“…Mountains are natural dams that impede atmospheric moisture transport and water towers that cool, condense, and store precipitation. They are essential in the…”
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A warming-induced reduction in snow fraction amplifies rainfall extremes by Ombadi, Mohammed, Risser, Mark D., Rhoades, Alan M., Varadharajan, Charuleka

“…The intensity of extreme precipitation events is projected to increase in a warmer climate 1 – 5 , posing a great challenge to water sustainability in natural…”
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Regional grid refinement in an Earth system model: impacts on the simulated Greenland surface mass balance by van Kampenhout, Leonardus, Rhoades, Alan M, Herrington, Adam R, Zarzycki, Colin M, Lenaerts, Jan T. M, Sacks, William J, van den Broeke, Michiel R

“…In this study, the resolution dependence of the simulated Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance (GrIS SMB) in the variable-resolution Community Earth System…”
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Recreating the California New Year's Flood Event of 1997 in a Regionally Refined Earth System Model by Rhoades, Alan M., Zarzycki, Colin M., Inda‐Diaz, Héctor A., Ombadi, Mohammed, Pasquier, Ulysse, Srivastava, Abhishekh, Hatchett, Benjamin J., Dennis, Eli, Heggli, Anne, McCrary, Rachel, McGinnis, Seth, Rahimi‐Esfarjani, Stefan, Slinskey, Emily, Ullrich, Paul A., Wehner, Michael, Jones, Andrew D.

“…Abstract The 1997 New Year's flood event was the most costly in California's history. This compound extreme event was driven by a category 5 atmospheric river…”
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Evaluating the Water Cycle Over CONUS at the Watershed Scale for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model Version 1 (E3SMv1) Across Resolutions by Harrop, Bryce E., Balaguru, Karthik, Golaz, Jean‐Christophe, Leung, L. Ruby, Mahajan, Salil, Rhoades, Alan M., Ullrich, Paul A., Zhang, Chengzhu, Zheng, Xue, Zhou, Tian, Caldwell, Peter M., Keen, Noel D., Mametjanov, Azamat

“…The water cycle is an important component of the earth system and it plays a key role in many facets of society, including energy production, agriculture, and…”
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Projecting 21st century snowpack trends in western USA mountains using variable-resolution CESM by Rhoades, Alan M., Ullrich, Paul A., Zarzycki, Colin M.

“…Climate change will impact western USA water supplies by shifting precipitation from snow to rain and driving snowmelt earlier in the season. However, changes…”
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The Changing Character of the California Sierra Nevada as a Natural Reservoir by Rhoades, Alan M., Jones, Andrew D., Ullrich, Paul A.

“…The mountains of the Western United States provide a vital natural service through the storage and release of mountain snowpack, lessening impacts of seasonal…”
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The Shifting Scales of Western U.S. Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers Under Climate Change by Rhoades, Alan M., Jones, Andrew D., Srivastava, Abhishekh, Huang, Huanping, O'Brien, Travis A., Patricola, Christina M., Ullrich, Paul A., Wehner, Michael, Zhou, Yang

“…Atmospheric rivers (ARs) can be a boon and bane to water resource managers as they have the ability to replenish water reserves, but they can also generate…”
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Projecting climate change in South America using variable‐resolution Community Earth System Model: An application to Chile by Bambach, Nicolas E., Rhoades, Alan M., Hatchett, Benjamin J., Jones, Andrew D., Ullrich, Paul A., Zarzycki, Colin M.

“…We introduce variable‐resolution enabled Community Earth System Model (VR‐CESM) results simulating historical and future climate conditions at 28 km over South…”
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Maximizing ENSO as a source of western US hydroclimate predictability by Patricola, Christina M., O’Brien, John P., Risser, Mark D., Rhoades, Alan M., O’Brien, Travis A., Ullrich, Paul A., Stone, Dáithí A., Collins, William D.

“…Until recently, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) was considered a reliable source of winter precipitation predictability in the western US, with a…”
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Characterizing Sierra Nevada Snowpack Using Variable-Resolution CESM by Rhoades, Alan M., Huang, Xingying, Ullrich, Paul A., Zarzycki, Colin M.

“…The location, timing, and intermittency of precipitation in California make the state integrally reliant on winter-season snowpack accumulation to maintain its…”
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Monitoring the daily evolution and extent of snow drought by Hatchett, Benjamin J, Rhoades, Alan M, McEvoy, Daniel J

“…Snow droughts are commonly defined as below-average snowpack at a point in time, typically 1 April in the western United States (wUS). This definition is…”
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Sensitivities of subgrid-scale physics schemes, meteorological forcing, and topographic radiation in atmosphere-through-bedrock integrated process models: a case study in the Upper Colorado River basin by Xu, Zexuan, Siirila-Woodburn, Erica R, Rhoades, Alan M, Feldman, Daniel

“…Mountain hydrology is controlled by interacting processes extending from the atmosphere through the bedrock. Integrated process models (IPMs), one of the main…”
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Algorithmically detected rain-on-snow flood events in different climate datasets: a case study of the Susquehanna River basin by Zarzycki, Colin M, Ascher, Benjamin D, Rhoades, Alan M, McCrary, Rachel R

“…Rain-on-snow (RoS) events in regions of ephemeral snowpack – such as the northeastern United States – can be key drivers of cool-season flooding. We describe…”
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Anticipating how rain-on-snow events will change through the 21st century: lessons from the 1997 new year’s flood event by Rhoades, Alan M., Zarzycki, Colin M., Hatchett, Benjamin J., Inda-Diaz, Héctor, Rudisill, William, Bass, Benjamin, Dennis, Eli, Heggli, Anne, McCrary, Rachel, McGinnis, Seth, Ombadi, Mohammed, Rahimi-Esfarjani, Stefan, Slinskey, Emily, Srivastava, Abhishekh, Szinai, Julia, Ullrich, Paul A., Wehner, Michael, Yates, David, Jones, Andrew D.

“…The California-Nevada 1997 New Year’s flood was an atmospheric river (AR)-driven rain-on-snow (RoS) event and remains the costliest in their history. The joint…”
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An evaluation of the variable‐resolution CESM for modeling California's climate by Huang, Xingying, Rhoades, Alan M., Ullrich, Paul A., Zarzycki, Colin M.

“…In this paper, the recently developed variable‐resolution option within the Community Earth System Model (VR‐CESM) is assessed for long‐term regional climate…”
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Asymmetric emergence of low-to-no snow in the midlatitudes of the American Cordillera by Rhoades, Alan M., Hatchett, Benjamin J., Risser, Mark D., Collins, William D., Bambach, Nicolas E., Huning, Laurie S., McCrary, Rachel, Siirila-Woodburn, Erica R., Ullrich, Paul A., Wehner, Michael F., Zarzycki, Colin M., Jones, Andrew D.

“…Societies and ecosystems within and downstream of mountains rely on seasonal snowmelt to satisfy their water demands. Anthropogenic climate change has reduced…”
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An Intercomparison of GCM and RCM Dynamical Downscaling for Characterizing the Hydroclimatology of California and Nevada by Xu, Zexuan, Rhoades, Alan M., Johansen, Hans, Ullrich, Paul A., Collins, William D.

“…Dynamical downscaling is a widely used technique to properly capture regional surface heterogeneities that shape the local hydroclimatology. However, in the…”
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