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Climate Change in the Yaqui Valley
David BattistiUniversity of Washington
1. Climatological Annual Cycle– Winter vs. Summer
2. Variability(Winter)– ENSO and Extreme Events
3. Trends and Climate Change 1. (wheat yield and climate)
4. Puzzles
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1. The Annual Cycle• Summer
– Tropical storms, hurricane debris, (monsoon)
• Winter– El Nino/Southern
Oscillation (ENSO)– Pacific North
American Pattern– More
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2. Interannual Variability• Winter
– El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
– Pacific North American Pattern
– More• Summer
– Not today
• Extreme Events– Extended
Drought
Precipitation Anomalies
(Lobell 2003)
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ENSO
• ENSO warms offshore and cools to the east in the Sierra.
• ENSO brings winter rainfall to the Yaqui Valley catchment basin (r = 0.55)
Temperature Anomalies
Precipitation Anomalies(January-April)
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• The (+) PNA brings winter rainfall to the Yaqui Valley catchment basin (r=.6).
• The (+) PNA warms offshore and cools to the east in the Sierra.– Yaqui Valley is on a
nodal line for PNA -- no signal.
Precipitaiton Anomalies(January-April)
The Pacific North American
(PNA) Pattern
Temperature Anomalies(January-April)
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• The mechanisms for the year-to-year variability in this ‘new’ pattern of natural variability are not known.
• The WP pattern does bring seasonal temperature and precipitation anomalies to the Yaqui Valley (warm/dry, cold/wet).
Precipitation Anomalies(January-April)
Temperature Anomalies(January-April)
The West Pacific (WP) Pattern
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• The WP pattern does bring seasonal temperature and precipitation anomalies to the Yaqui Valley (warm/dry, cold/wet; r=0.5/0.7).
• The WP pattern is only weakly correlated to SST in the eastern Pacific.
The West Pacific (WP) Pattern (cont)
Temperature Anomalies(January-April)
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Extreme Drought
• The instrument record of Yaqui Valley basin precipitation has been extended using tree ring data.
• Correlation of observed and reconstructed Nov-April rainfall is 0.77.
(Diaz et al. 2002)
Precipitation Anomalies(Nov-April)
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Extreme Drought
• The reconstructed precipitation record extends from 1650 to 1985 AD.
• The average return time for a drought similar to the present drought is about 20 years.
• Correlation of observed and reconstructed Jan-April rainfall is 0.77.
Precipitation Anomalies(November-April)
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3. Trends and Climate Change
• Annual wheat yield in Yaqui Valley (1983-2002) is highly correlated to the Jan-April average minimum daily temperature.
• Is this due to climate or management?
• Note: much of the relationship between minimum temperature and yield is interannual (r =0.7)
(Lobell et al. 2003)
Temp
Yield
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Yield and Climate
• Increased yield is related to – Less precipitation (r = 0.8!)– Reduced minimum
temperatures– Cold SST immediately
offshore– Warm SST in the western
Pacific
• The PNA and the WP are weakly related to yield (r=-.31 and .42, respectively)
Temperature Anomalies
Precipitation Anomalies(January-April)
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4. Conclusions• Much of the variability in wintertime precipitation in the
Yaqui Vally catchment is due to patterns of natural climate variability: ENSO, the PNA and the WP phenomenon.
• The local ocean SST conditions are probably not influencing Tmin:
– ENSO, remotely forced atmospheric teleconnections (WP) and variability intrinsic to the atmosphere (PNA) are likely to be responsible.
• Some of the relationship between yield and climate could be explained by the collection of natural patterns of interannual variability:– The PNA and the WP are weakly related to yield (r =-.31
and .42, respectively)– Another Pattern is worth checking: the North Pacific pattern.
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4. Conclusions• The trend (20 year) in yield
and minimum temperature are correlated with the 40 year (warming) trend in the western Pacific (WP).
• The latter has been argued in several studies to be due to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations (e.g., Hoerling et al. 2003)
Warm Pool(WP) Index
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4. Conclusions and Puzzles
• Problems: If the variability and trend in wheat yield are due to the natural variability in the PNA and WP (and the trend in WP), ….
How do drier conditions (r=.7) lead to lower minimum daily temperatures?
Does clearing lead to a greater diurnal temperature range, and hence a lower minimum daily temperature, even though the daily mean temperature might be rising?
• Summer vs. winter precipitation and reservoir levels
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ENSO ForecastForecast Made Sept 2003
Skill: Forecasts for August Skill: Forecasts from April
Operational forecasts of ENSO from the Univ. of Washington
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Summer Precipitation 2003
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North American Monsoon Experiment
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Detail of WP and Mexico Temperature
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4. Conclusions and Puzzles
• Problems: If the variability and trend in wheat yield are due to the natural variability in the PNA and WP (and the trend in WP), ….
• How do drier conditions (r=.7) lead to lower minimum daily temperatures?Does clearing lead to a greater diurnal temperature range, and hence a lower minimum daily temperature, even though the daily mean temperature might be rising?