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Publications

Reports and Proceedings

2001 Fire & Climate Workshop Proceedings
Includes summaries from the 2001 fire-climate workshops, Fire and Climate 2001 (convened February 14-16, 2001) and Fire and Climate in the Southwest 2001 (convened March 28, 2001).

An Assessment of Climate Vulnerability in the Middle San Pedro River
Timothy J. Finan and Colin West (editors)
Report #CL3-00, August 2000

An Examination of Arizona Water Law and Policy from the Perspective of Climate Impacts
Rebecca H. Carter and Barbara J. Morehouse
Report #CL2-01, November 2001

Assessing the Sensitivity of the Southwest's Urban Water Sector to Climate Variability: Case Studies in Arizona
Rebecca H. Carter, Petra Tschakert, and Barbara J. Morehouse
Report #CL1-00, March 2000

Building Partnerships with Native Americans in Climate-Related Research and Outreach
Diane Austin, Sherri Gerlack, and Carolyn Smith
Report #CL2-00, November 2000

CLIMAS Ranching Case Study: Year 1
Julie Conley, Hallie Eakin, Thomas E. Sheridan, and Diana Hadley
Report #CL3-99, September 1999

Climate and Urban Water Providers in Arizona: An Analysis of Vulnerability Perceptions and Climate Information
Rebecca H. Carter and Barbara J. Morehouse
Report #CL1-03, July 2003

The Climate of the Southwest
Paul R. Sheppard, Andrew C. Comrie, Gregory D. Packin, Kurt Angersbach, and Malcolm K. Hughes
Report #CL1-99, December 1999

Fire in Indian Country: Two Case Studies in the Southwestern United States
Diane Austin & Barbara Wolf
Report #CL1-01, October 2001

The Implications of La Niña and El Niño for Fire Management (pdf file, 2.1 MB)
Proceedings from a workshop sponsored by ISPE, CLIMAS, and the Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, February 23-24, 2000.

National Seasonal Assessment Workshop [pdf file, 1.2 MB]
Proceedings from this CLIMAS-sponsored workshop, February 25-28, 2003.

Pilot Stakeholder Assessment Report 
Nicholas Benequista and Jennifer Schrag James, with the assistance of Diane Austin, Andrew Gardner, and David Prytherch. February 1999.

Primer on Climatic Variability and Change in the Southwest (pdf file)
Robert Merideth. Published jointly by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. 2001.

Vulnerability to Climate Variability in the Farming Sector
Marcela Vasquez-Leon, Colin Thor West, Barbara Wolf, Jane Moody, and Timothy J. Finan
Report #CL1-02, December 2002

Weather, Climate, and Hydrologic Forecasting for the Southwest U.S.
Holly C. Hartmann, Roger Bales, and Soroosh Sorooshian
Report #CL2-99, October 1999

Newsletters

The Southwest Climate Outlook provides monthly feature articles on drought, floods, tropical storms, monsoon, long-term climate patterns and other topics relevant to the Southwest.

Our quarterly newsletter, CLIMAS Update, features articles on CLIMAS research projects, as well as updates on our latest activities. You can subscribe online to begin receiving free print copies.

April 2004, Vol. 7 No. 1. Newsletter available in (pdf, 308K)
This issue features an article desribing how two CLIMAS researchers are discovering more about how climate variability effects home buying decisions made by ranchers, homebuyers, and other stakeholders. There is also a detailed update on CLIMAS activities.

November 2003, Vol. 6 No. 4 (pdf, 457K)
This issue features an article on how researchers are working to improve snowpack prediction, as well as an update on CLIMAS activities.

June 2003, Vol. 6 No. 2-3 (pdf, 574K)
This issue includes two articles as well as several CLIMAS updates. The first article discusses variability and trends in air quality in Southwestern cities. The second article assesses the accuracy of streamflow forecasts.

February 2003, Vol. 6 No. 1 (pdf, 457K)
Includes a research report about our climate vulnerability assessment of irrigated agriculture in southeastern Arizona.

October 2002, Vol. 5 No. 2 (pdf, 184K)
Includes details about our new El Niño-Drought Initiative and the revamped CLIMAS web site.

May 2002, Vol. 5 No. 1 (pdf, 751K)
Includes a research report on streamflow forecasts, summary from the Fire in the West workshop, and information on a possible El Niño in 2002

January 2002, Vol. 4 No. 4 (pdf, 751K)
This double issue includes a research report on Arizona's cattle industry and climate variability, information about CLIMAS product rollout and evaluation, and several news items about CLIMAS workshops and activities.

July 2001, Vol. 4 No. 2 (pdf, 751K)
Includes articles on reconstructing Southwest precipitation and CLIMAS research on fire in Indian Country.

April 2001, Vol. 4 No. 1 (pdf, 131K)
Includes a research report on the predicting valley fever incidence and information about our 2001 fire and climate workshops.

January 2001, Vol. 3 No. 3-4 (pdf, 116K)
Includes a research update on monsoon forecasting, information about our community assessment in the Sulphur Springs Valley, a report from our forecast evaluation workshop.

September 2000, Vol. 3 No. 1-2 (pdf, 125K)
Includes a research report on Southwest forecasts Assessment and information from our climate and wildfire workshop.

December 1999, Vol. 2 No. 3-4 (pdf, 175K)

June 1999, Vol. 2 No. 2 (pdf, 52K)

March 1999, Vol. 2 No. 1 (pdf, 51K)

December 1998, Vol. 1 No. 2 (pdf, 44K)

August 1998, Vol. 1 No. 1 (pdf, 44K)

Bibliographies

Fire Bibliographic Database
A database of fire-related publications pertaining to the Southwest. Users may be able to import references into software programs such as EndNote and ProCite.

Related Publications and Resources

Southwest Climate Symposium Report
Final Report of the Southwest Regional Climate Change Symposium and Workshop hosted by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy.

Climate Change and the Borderlands
Diana Liverman. Interhemispheric Resource Center Borderlines 56 (Vol. 7, No. 5, May 1999).

Making Climate Forecasts Matter
Online book available from the National Academy Press

Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Online book available from the National Academy Press

Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries
Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley, and Malcolm K. Hughes. 1998. Nature.

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