Studies of Selected EWEs:

Selected EWEs from Sacramento Criteria

Links to Composite/Bootstrap Significance Maps

1. Hardest Freezes
2. Hottest Heat Waves (onset)
3. End of Heat Wave
4. Heaviest Precipiation
5. Longest Duration Fogs

Documentation

Research with Ghislain Faure (Sacramento EWEs)
1. Technical Report on the methodology (1.6 Mb pdf file) -- no appendices.
2. Appendices for the Technical Report (6.4 Mb pdf file) -- appendices only (many figures, ferret scripts, event dates, etc.
3. Grotjahn & Faure, 2008 (9.4 Mb pdf file) Preprint of article accepted by Weather Analysis and Forecasting
4. Grotjahn & Faure, 2008 (5.9 Mb pdf file) Galley proof of article in Weather Analysis and Forecasting
Research with Brooke Bachmann (Extent of Sacramento Extraordinary Heat Waves)
1. MS Thesis: Introduction & Methods (0.3 Mb pdf file) 32 pages.
2. MS Thesis: Results, Conclusions, & References (0.8 Mb pdf file) 40 pages.
3. MS Thesis: Appendices A & B (results) (1.7 Mb pdf file) 32 pages.
4. MS Thesis: Code (0.2 Mb pdf file) 59 pages.
5. FULL MS THESIS (3.0 Mb pdf file) 163 pages.

Publications and Presentations

Publications
1. Grotjahn & Faure, 2008 (4.7 Mb pdf file) copy of the article in Weather Analysis and Forecasting
2. Grotjahn, 2011 (2.0 Mb pdf file) copy of the article in Climate Dynamics describing a pilot project relating extreme hot surface max temperatures over the California Central Valley to the upper level large scale flow.

Presentations
1. Grotjahn, 2009 (1.0 Mb pdf file) pdf of talk at 2009 IAMAS meeting MOCA-09 in Montreal Canada
2. Grotjahn, 2009 (1.6 Mb pdf file) pdf of talk at NOAA CDW meeting in Monterey CA This talk improves greatly on the MOCA-09 presentation.
3. Grotjahn, 2010 (4.5 Mb pdf file) pdf of talk summer presentations given at Exeter England, Paris France, and Saclay France This talk gives an overview on California CAOs and Hottest days, with emphasis on the latter. It also gives a preview of the later publication Grotjahn (2010, submitted to CD)
4. Grotjahn, 2011 (3.3 Mb pdf file) pdf of poster presented at CESM Workshop in Breckenridge Colorado.
5. Grotjahn, 2011 (5.6 Mb pdf file) pdf of talk given at 2011 IUGG meeting in Melbourne Australia