{"id":23180,"date":"2012-07-20T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T21:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=23180"},"modified":"2018-02-01T22:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T22:37:48","slug":"drought-has-ties-to-la-nina-with-global-warming-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2012\/07\/20\/drought-has-ties-to-la-nina-with-global-warming-assist\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Has Ties to La Ni\u00f1a, with Global Warming Assist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>La Ni\u00f1a has been linked to historical droughts, including the Dust Bowl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/what-we-do\/people\/andrew_freedman\/\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Freedman<\/a><\/p>\n<figure  id=\"attachment_23183\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 285px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23183\" title=\"Severe Drought Threatens Midwest Corn Crops\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718-160x104.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718-800x519.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718-1920x1245.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718-960x623.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718-240x156.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718-375x243.jpg 375w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2012\/07\/MidwestDrought20120718-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cow feeds in a drought-damaged pasture as temperatures climb near 100 degrees on July 17, 2012 near Princeton, Indiana. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Driven by a combination of natural climate variability, manmade global warming, and plain old bad luck, drought conditions are so widespread in the U.S. that it\u2019s possible to take a cross-country flight from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco \u2014 a distance of approximately 2,400 miles \u2014 without once overflying an unaffected area. With about 81 percent of the lower 48 states experiencing at least abnormally dry conditions, and 63 percent mired in moderate-to-exceptional drought, it\u2019s becoming harder and harder to find an oasis. And the dog days of August are yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/drought-worsens-with-no-relief-in-sight\/\" target=\"_blank\">already ranks this drought<\/a> as one of the worst on record, comparable to the drought events of the 1950s. The last time there were such widespread drought conditions in the corn-growing region of the country was in 1988, and that drought cost at least $40 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Given this summer\u2019s punishing 1-2 punch of dry weather and heat, this drought is also being compared to the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Richard Seager, a professor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldeo.columbia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory<\/a> at Columbia University and a prominent drought researcher, this drought has one key thing in common with the Dust Bowl and the 1988 drought events: its origins can be traced to the tropical Pacific Ocean, where a periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures \u2014 a phenomenon known as La Ni\u00f1a \u2014 helped reconfigure global weather patterns during the past two years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"385\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/wgts\/tracker.php?vid2play=flashdrought4.flv\" width=\"550\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seager\u2019s research has shown that La Ni\u00f1a is closely tied to many historical drought events in the U.S., since it shifts weather patterns in a way that favors a northern storm track, bypassing the southern tier of the country and depriving the already arid Southwest of much-needed moisture. Even though La Ni\u00f1a conditions are no longer present in the tropical Pacific \u2014 in fact, there is talk of a coming El Ni\u00f1o, with warmer sea surface temperatures \u2014 the weather pattern in the tropical Pacific is still behaving in a manner that is more consistent with La Ni\u00f1a. This may be giving the 2011-12 La Ni\u00f1a an extended lifespan in the U.S., Seager and other climate scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa Ni\u00f1a conditions are perfect for getting drought in the southern parts of the U.S. There is absolutely no doubt that that has been a large part of what\u2019s been going on here,\u201d Seager said.<\/p>\n<p>Seager and other experts noted that factors besides La Nina are also playing a part in this drought, however.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the droughts of the 1930s, this one is occurring in a much warmer climate, a byproduct of manmade global warming. Seager said that although it most likely didn\u2019t trigger the drought, it\u2019s possible that global warming is making this drought worse than it would otherwise be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what we\u2019re seeing is largely a naturally occurring event, but it\u2019s occurring against the background of a warming environment,\u201d Seager said.<\/p>\n<p>Global warming may be affecting the feedbacks that take place between dry soils and the atmosphere. When soils dry, very little evaporation occurs and very little moisture is released from vegetation to the air. This can accelerate warming, making droughts hotter, and therefore even drier. Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at the <a href=\"http:\/\/drought.unl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Drought Mitigation Center<\/a> in Lincoln, Neb., said this phenomenon is known as drought \u201cfeeding on itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such feedbacks have helped the current drought rapidly balloon in size, overtaking some regions so quickly that it\u2019s referred to as a \u201cflash drought.\u201d At the start of the year, just 28 percent of the contiguous U.S. \u2014 mainly the southern tier \u2014 was in at least moderate drought. Between mid-April and mid-July, the moderate to exceptional drought area went from 37 percent to 63 percent, a clear indication of the toll that the hot, dry spring and summer have taken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgd.ucar.edu\/cas\/trenbert.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Trenberth<\/a>, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said global warming helps make droughts hotter, and therefore drier, than they would be without a human influence. Manmade global warming, he said via email, \u201c. . . means more energy that has to go somewhere. In dry conditions it amplifies drying and goes into heating, creating heat waves. It is small on a day-to-day basis, but is always in one direction and it creates stronger, more intense, and longer-lasting drought. No doubt about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seager pointed to the lack of snow cover from the 2011-12 winter as another key factor in the drought\u2019s expansion. In Colorado, for example, there was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/blogs\/colorado-wildfires-explained-in-one-chart\/\" target=\"_blank\">unusually thin snowpack<\/a> that melted earlier than average. This primed the state for destructive wildfires and record warm temperatures during June. The thin snow cover and early melt across the High Plains also may have helped dry soils in that region, and may have affected larger-scale weather patterns.<\/p>\n<p>According to Svoboda, the below-average snowpack was one of the factors, along with a dry and warm spring, that made the U.S. more vulnerable to drought come early summer. \u201cWe had two strikes against us before even getting to the summer or the heat wave that would follow,\u201d he said in an email conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t attribute this drought to global warming, but we do see what increased temperatures can do to exacerbate droughts, and if higher temperatures become a more persistent feature in some regions not used to it, then this isn\u2019t a good combination,\u201d Svoboda said.<\/p>\n<p>There is some evidence that this is already happening. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/two-new-reports-underscore-impact-of-manmade-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent study<\/a> found that global warming made the Texas drought and heatwave 20 times more likely to occur than under similar large-scale climate conditions 50 years ago.\u00a0Other research shows that warming driven by human activities made the same heat wave and drought more severe than it otherwise would have been.\u00a0As for whether global warming made the current drought more likely to occur, such &#8220;climate attribution&#8221; studies can take several months to complete, and the drought is still underway.<\/p>\n<p>If indeed we\u2019re already seeing more intense droughts as a result of global warming, it doesn\u2019t bode well for the future, judging from what climate studies show. For example, climate research consistently shows the Southwest U.S. will become much drier as the climate continues to warm.<\/p>\n<p>Seager\u2019s own research has revealed a disturbing history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldeo.columbia.edu\/res\/...\/2009_Cook_IPCC_paleo-drought.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">North American \u201cmegadroughts<\/a>\u201d that have lasted for decades, making the current event look quaint by comparison. And one study published in 2011 found evidence for a <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/wcc.81\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">global warming-induced increase in aridity<\/a> over global land areas since the 1970s, and noted that climate models project a huge expansion of drought areas in the coming decades, depending on whether and by how much greenhouse gas emissions are reined in.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you think this drought is bad . . . just wait.<\/p>\n<p><em>A version of this post also appears at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/scientists-weigh-in-on-global-warmings-role-in-us-drought\/\">Climate Central<\/a><em>, <\/em>Climate Watch\u2019s <em>content partner.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Ni\u00f1a has been linked to historical droughts, including the Dust 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