cc: celineh@ldeo.columbia.edu, James.Todd@noaa.gov date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:56:42 -0500 (EST) from: Richard Seager subject: two new research papers on North American drought, etc. to: david@atmos.washington.edu, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, gilbert.p.compo@noaa.gov, adai@ucar.edu, Tom.Delworth@noaa.gov, cdeser@ucar.edu, randall.m.dole@noaa.gov, David.Enfield@noaa.gov, ffye@uark.edu, gutzler@unm.edu, whiggins@ncep.noaa.gov, martin.hoerling@noaa.gov, randal.koster@gsfc.nasa.gov, ekalnay@atmos.umd.edu, Arun.Kumar@noaa.gov, gabriel.lau@noaa.gov, Ants.Leetmaa@noaa.gov, dennisl@u.washington.edu, Kingste.Mo@noaa.gov, nigam@atmos.umd.edu, jto@u.arizona.edu, siegfried.d.schubert@nasa.gov, dstahle@uark.edu, ronald.stouffer@noaa.gov, rowan@met.rdg.ac.uk, trenbert@ucar.edu, connie.woodhouse@noaa.gov Dear colleagues, I have attached two papers recently submitted to J. Climate. The first is a modeling and observational study of the 1998-2004 North American drought. The second is an analysis of tree ring records of the Medieval megadroughts of the American West which seeks to place them in the context of historical droughts. This one is authored by my student, Celine Herweijer. Comments welcome. These papers, and several others, can also be dowloaded from: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/drought/index.shtml Unlimited access to all the CCM3 model simulations (16 member ensembles, 1856 to April 2005, GOGA, POGA and POGA-ML - with TAGA in progress) can be found at: http://kage.ldeo.columbia.edu:81/expert/SOURCES/.LDEO/.ClimateGroup/.PROJECTS/.CCM3/ Happy holidays to all! Richard -- Richard Seager Doherty Senior Research Scientist Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Rt 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 Tel: 845-365-8743 FAX: 845-365-8736 email: seager@ldeo.columbia.edu Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\seager_2006.pdf" Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Herweijer_NADA_joc.pdf"