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Decadal‐to‐centennial‐scale climate variability: Insights into the rise and fall of the Great Salt Lake
Author(s) -
Mann Michael E.,
Lall Upmanu,
Saltzman Barry
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/95gl00704
Subject(s) - secular variation , climatology , storm , precipitation , centennial , pacific decadal oscillation , environmental science , climate change , salt lake , historical record , variance (accounting) , geology , el niño southern oscillation , oceanography , meteorology , geography , history , accounting , archaeology , structural basin , geophysics , business , memoir , art history , paleontology
We demonstrate connections between decadal and secular global climatic variations, and historical variations in the volume of the Great Salt Lake. The decadal variations correspond to a low‐frequency shifting of storm tracks which influence winter precipitation and explain nearly 18% of the interannual and longer‐term variance in the record of monthly volume change. The secular trend accounts for a more modest ∼1.5% of the variance.