This page lists a few key publications by WASCO organized by topic. You can search through all of our publications, not just those featured here, on the CIG website.

Drought

  • Bumbaco, K.A., C.L. Raymond, L.W. O’Neill, D.J. Hoekema. 2024. 2023 Pacific Northwest Water Year Impacts Assessment. A collaboration among the Office of the Washington State Climatologist, Climate Impacts Group, Oregon Climate Service, Idaho Department of Water Resources, and NOAA National Integrated Drought Information System.
    https://www.drought.gov/documents/2023-pacific-northwest-water-year-impacts-assessment
  • Bumbaco, K.A. and P.W. Mote, 2010: Three Recent Flavors of Drought in the Pacific Northwest. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 49, 2058-2068. doi:10.1175/2010JAMC2423.1

Flooding

Heat

  • Vogel, J., J. Hess, Z. Kearl, K. Naismith, K. Bumbaco, B.G. Henning, R. Cunningham, N. Bond. 2023. In the Hot Seat: Saving Lives from Extreme Heat in Washington State. Report prepared by the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group, UW’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, the Washington State Department of Health, the Office of the Washington State Climatologist, and Gonzaga University’s Center for Climate, Society & the Environment.
  • Bumbaco, K.A., K.D. Dello, and N.A. Bond, 2013: History of Pacific Northwest Heat Waves: Synoptic Pattern and Trends. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 52, 1618-1631.

Marine and Coast

  • Bond, N.A., M.F. Cronin. H. Freeland, and N. Mantua, 2015: Causes and impacts of the 2014 warm anomaly in the NE Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi: 10.1002/2015GL063306
  • Siedlecki, S.A., I.C. Kaplan, A.J. Hermann, T.T. Nguyen, N.A. Bond, J.A. Newton, G.D. Williams, W.T. Peterson, S. Alin, and R.A. Feely (2016): Experiments with seasonal forecasts of ocean conditions for the northern region of the California Current upwelling system. Scientific Reports, 6, 27203, doi: 10.1038/srep27203.
  • Siedlecki, S.A., S.R. Alin, E.L. Norton, N.A. Bond, A.J. Hermann, R.A. Feely, and J. Newton (2023): Can seasonal forecasts of ocean conditions aid fishery managers?: Experiences from 10 years of J-SCOPE. Oceanography, 36(2–3), 158–167, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2023.219
  • Newton, T.J., R. Weldon, I.M. Miller, D. Schmidt, G. Mauger, H. Morgan, and E. Grossman. 2021. An Assessment of Vertical Land Movement to Support Coastal Hazards Planning in Washington State. Water13(3):281.
  • Bond, N., Harrison, D.E. 2000. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, air-sea interaction and central North Pacific winter atmospheric regimes. Geophysical Research Letter 27(5):731-734.
  • Bond, N.A., C.F. Mass, and J.E. Overland, 1996: Coastally trapped wind reversals along the U.S. West Coast during the warm season. Part I: Climatology and temporal evolution. Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 430-445.
  • Bond, N.A., J.E. Overland, M. Spillane and P. Stabeno, 2003: Recent shifts in the state of the North Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett.,30, No. 23, doi:10.1029/2003GLO18597
  • Mauger, G.S., K.A. Bumbaco, G.J. Hakim, and P.W. Mote, 2013: Optimal design of a climatological network: beyond practical considerations, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 2, 199-212.
  • Bond, N.A. and K.A. Bumbaco, 2015: Summertime Potential Evapotranspiration in Eastern Washington State. J. Applied Met. Clim., in press.
  • Chiodi, A.M., N.A. Bond, N.K. Larkin, and J. Barbour (2016): Summertime rainfall events in eastern Washington and Oregon. Weather Forecast., 31(5), 1465–1480, doi: 10.1175/WAF-D-16-0024.1.

Precipitation

Snow

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