Precipitation in Northeast Mexico Primarily Controlled by the Relative Warming of Atlantic SSTs

Wright, Kevin T.; Johnson, Kathleen R.; Bhattacharya, Tripti; Marks, Gabriela Serrato; McGee, David; Elsbury, Dillon; Peings, Yannick; Lacaille‐Muzquiz, Jean‐Louis; Lum, Gianna; Beramendi‐Orosco, Laura; Magnusdottir, Gudrun

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Precipitation in Northeast Mexico Primarily Controlled by the Relative Warming of Atlantic SSTs

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2022
By Wright, Kevin T. ; Johnson, Kathleen R. ; Bhattacharya, Tripti ; ...

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Geophysical Research Letters
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Wright, Kevin T. ; Johnson, Kathleen R. ; Bhattacharya, Tripti ; Marks, Gabriela Serrato ; McGee, David ; Elsbury, Dillon ; Peings, Yannick ; Lacaille‐Muzquiz, Jean‐Louis ; Lum, Gianna ; Beramendi‐Orosco, Laura ; Magnusdottir, Gudrun
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OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) ; CSL (Chemical Sciences Laboratory)
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Reconstructing hydroclimate over the Common Era is essential for understanding the dominant mechanisms of precipitation change and improving climate model projections, which currently suggest Northeast Mexico will become drier in the future. Tree-ring reconstructions have suggested regional rainfall is primarily controlled by Pacific sea-surface temperatures (SSTs). However, tree ring records tend to reflect winter-spring rainfall, and thus may not accurately record total annual precipitation. Using the first multiproxy speleothem record spanning the last millennium, combined with results from an atmospheric general circulation model, we demonstrate mean annual rainfall in Northeast Mexico is highly sensitive to Atlantic SST variability.
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General Earth And Planetary Sciences Geophysics General Earth And Planetary Sciences General Earth And Planetary Sciences
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Geophysical Research Letters, 49(11)
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gl098186
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0094-8276 ; 1944-8007
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