Colorado Archives - Climate Attribution

NOAA Drought Task Force Report on the 2020–2021 Southwestern U.S. Drought

Published:September 2021

Author(s):NOAA Drought Task Force IV

Publisher:NOAA

This report analyses the causes of the 2020–21 U.S. Southwest drought.Read More →

Colorado River flow dwindles as warming-driven loss of reflective snow energizes evaporation

Published:March 2021

Author(s):P. C. D. Milly, K. A. Dunne

Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science

This article shows that the decrease in Colorado River flow is due mainly to increased evapotranspiration caused by a reduction of albedo from snow loss.Read More →

Diagnosing Conditional Anthropogenic Contributions to Heavy Colorado Rainfall in September 2013

Published:September 2017

Author(s):Pardeep Palla, Christina M. Patricola, Michael F. Wehner, Dáithí A. Stone, Christopher J. Paciorek, William D. Collins

Publisher:Weather and Climate Extremes

This study investigates the possible role of anthropogenic climate change in the Colorado floods of September 2013. Read More →

Northeast Colorado Extreme Rains Interpreted in a Climate Change Context

Published:December 2013

Author(s):Martin Hoerling, Klaus Wolter, Judith Perlwitz, Xiaowei Quan, Jon Eischeid, Hailan Wang, Siegfried Schubert, Henry Diaz, Randall Dole

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

This article suggests that the probability for an extreme five-day September rainfall event over northeast Colorado, as was observed in early September 2013, has likely decreased due to climate change. Read More →