Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California

Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California

Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California, Published online: 23 April 2018; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0140-y

California recently experienced a rapid shift from multi-year drought to abundant rainfall. A large ensemble of climate model simulations suggests that the frequency of extreme wet-to-dry precipitation events will increase by 25% to 100% across California due to anthropogenic forcing.