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Nature | 2013

The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability

Camilo Mora; Abby G. Frazier; Ryan J. Longman; Rachel S. Dacks; Maya M. Walton; Eric J. Tong; Joseph J. Sanchez; Lauren R. Kaiser; Yuko O. Stender; James M. Anderson; Christine M. Ambrosino; Iria Fernandez-Silva; Louise M. Giuseffi; Thomas W. Giambelluca

Ecological and societal disruptions by modern climate change are critically determined by the time frame over which climates shift beyond historical analogues. Here we present a new index of the year when the projected mean climate of a given location moves to a state continuously outside the bounds of historical variability under alternative greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. Using 1860 to 2005 as the historical period, this index has a global mean of 2069 (±18 years s.d.) for near-surface air temperature under an emissions stabilization scenario and 2047 (±14 years s.d.) under a ‘business-as-usual’ scenario. Unprecedented climates will occur earliest in the tropics and among low-income countries, highlighting the vulnerability of global biodiversity and the limited governmental capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change. Our findings shed light on the urgency of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions if climates potentially harmful to biodiversity and society are to be prevented.


Oecologia | 2014

Moisture status during a strong El Niño explains a tropical montane cloud forest’s upper limit

Shelley D. Crausbay; Abby G. Frazier; Thomas W. Giambelluca; Ryan J. Longman; Sara C. Hotchkiss

Growing evidence suggests short-duration climate events may drive community structure and composition more directly than long-term climate means, particularly at ecotones where taxa are close to their physiological limits. Here we use an empirical habitat model to evaluate the role of microclimate during a strong El Niño in structuring a tropical montane cloud forest’s upper limit and composition in Hawai‘i. We interpolate climate surfaces, derived from a high-density network of climate stations, to permanent vegetation plots. Climatic predictor variables include (1) total rainfall, (2) mean relative humidity, and (3) mean temperature representing non-El Niño periods and a strong El Niño drought. Habitat models explained species composition within the cloud forest with non-El Niño rainfall; however, the ecotone at the cloud forest’s upper limit was modeled with relative humidity during a strong El Niño drought and secondarily with non-El Niño rainfall. This forest ecotone may be particularly responsive to strong, short-duration climate variability because taxa here, particularly the isohydric dominant Metrosideros polymorpha, are near their physiological limits. Overall, this study demonstrates moisture’s overarching influence on a tropical montane ecosystem, and suggests that short-term climate events affecting moisture status are particularly relevant at tropical ecotones. This study further suggests that predicting the consequences of climate change here, and perhaps in other tropical montane settings, will rely on the skill and certainty around future climate models of regional rainfall, relative humidity, and El Niño.


Nature | 2014

Mora et al. reply

Camilo Mora; Abby G. Frazier; Ryan J. Longman; Rachel S. Dacks; Maya M. Walton; Eric J. Tong; Joseph J. Sanchez; Lauren R. Kaiser; Yuko O. Stender; James M. Anderson; Christine M. Ambrosino; Iria Fernandez-Silva; Louise M. Giuseffi; Thomas W. Giambelluca

Replying to E. Hawkins et al. 511, 10.1038/nature13523 (2014)In the accompanying Comment, Hawkins et al. suggest that our index of the projected timing of climate departure from recent variability is biased to occur too early and is given with overestimated confidence. We contest their assertions and maintain that our findings are conservative and remain unaltered in light of their analysis.


Scientific Data | 2018

Compilation of climate data from heterogeneous networks across the Hawaiian Islands

Ryan J. Longman; Thomas W. Giambelluca; Michael A. Nullet; Abby G. Frazier; Kevin Kodama; Shelley D. Crausbay; Paul D. Krushelnycky; Susan Cordell; Martyn P. Clark; Andrew J. Newman; Jeffrey R. Arnold

Long-term, accurate observations of atmospheric phenomena are essential for a myriad of applications, including historic and future climate assessments, resource management, and infrastructure planning. In Hawai‘i, climate data are available from individual researchers, local, State, and Federal agencies, and from large electronic repositories such as the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Researchers attempting to make use of available data are faced with a series of challenges that include: (1) identifying potential data sources; (2) acquiring data; (3) establishing data quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) protocols; and (4) implementing robust gap filling techniques. This paper addresses these challenges by providing: (1) a summary of the available climate data in Hawai‘i including a detailed description of the various meteorological observation networks and data accessibility, and (2) a quality controlled meteorological dataset across the Hawaiian Islands for the 25-year period 1990-2014. The dataset draws on observations from 471 climate stations and includes rainfall, maximum and minimum surface air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, downward shortwave and longwave radiation data.


Climate Dynamics | 2018

The influence of ENSO, PDO and PNA on secular rainfall variations in Hawai‘i

Abby G. Frazier; Oliver Timm; Thomas W. Giambelluca; Henry F. Diaz

Over the last century, significant declines in rainfall across the state of Hawai‘i have been observed, and it is unknown whether these declines are due to natural variations in climate, or manifestations of human-induced climate change. Here, a statistical analysis of the observed rainfall variability was applied as first step towards better understanding causes for these long-term trends. Gridded seasonal rainfall from 1920 to 2012 is used to perform an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis. The leading EOF components are correlated with three indices of natural climate variations (El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and Pacific North American (PNA)), and multiple linear regression (MLR) is used to model the leading components with climate indices. PNA is the dominant mode of wet season (November–April) variability, while ENSO is most significant in the dry season (May–October). To assess whether there is an anthropogenic influence on rainfall, two methods are used: a linear trend term is included in the MLR, and pattern correlation coefficients (PCC) are calculated between recent rainfall trends and future changes in rainfall projected by downscaling methods. PCC results indicate that recent observed rainfall trends in the wet season are positively correlated with future expected changes in rainfall, while dry season PCC results do not show a clear pattern. The MLR results, however, show that the trend term adds significantly to model skill only in the dry season. Overall, MLR and PCC results give weak and inconclusive evidence for detection of anthropogenic signals in the observed rainfall trends.


Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2013

Online Rainfall Atlas of Hawai‘i

Thomas W. Giambelluca; Qi Chen; Abby G. Frazier; Jonathan P. Price; Yi-Leng Chen; Pao-Shin Chu; Jon Eischeid; Donna M. Delparte


International Journal of Climatology | 2016

Comparison of geostatistical approaches to spatially interpolate month‐year rainfall for the Hawaiian Islands

Abby G. Frazier; Thomas W. Giambelluca; Henry F. Diaz; Heidi Needham


Climate Change Responses | 2016

Change in trade wind inversion frequency implicated in the decline of an alpine plant

Paul D. Krushelnycky; Forest Starr; Kim Starr; Ryan J. Longman; Abby G. Frazier; Lloyd L. Loope; Thomas W. Giambelluca


Journal of Geophysical Research | 2012

Modeling clear‐sky solar radiation across a range of elevations in Hawai‘i: Comparing the use of input parameters at different temporal resolutions

Ryan J. Longman; Thomas W. Giambelluca; Abby G. Frazier


International Journal of Climatology | 2017

Spatial trend analysis of Hawaiian rainfall from 1920 to 2012

Abby G. Frazier; Thomas W. Giambelluca

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Henry F. Diaz

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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Paul D. Krushelnycky

United States Geological Survey

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Andrew J. Newman

National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Jeffrey R. Arnold

United States Army Corps of Engineers

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Jon Eischeid

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

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