Cool‐season precipitation in the southwestern USA sinceAD1000: comparison of linear and nonlinear techniques for reconstruction

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Abstract

Abstract A 1000 year reconstruction of cool‐season (November–April) precipitation was developed for each climate division in Arizona and New Mexico from a network of 19 tree‐ring chronologies in the southwestern USA. Linear regression (LR) and artificial neural network (NN) models were used to identify the cool‐season precipitation signal in tree rings. Using 1931–88 records, the stepwise LR model was cross‐validated with a leave‐one‐out procedure and the NN was validated with a bootstrap technique. The final models were also independently validated using the 1896–1930 precipitation data. In most of the climate divisions, both techniques can successfully reconstruct dry and normal years, and the NN seems to capture large precipitation events and more variability better than the LR. In the 1000 year reconstructions the NN also produces more distinctive wet events and more variability, whereas the LR produces more distinctive dry events. The 1000 year reconstructed precipitation from the two models shows several sustained dry and wet periods comparable to the 1950s drought (e.g. 16th century mega drought) and to the post‐1976 wet period (e.g. 1330s, 1610s). The impact of extreme periods on the environment may be stronger during sudden reversals from dry to wet, which were not uncommon throughout the millennium, such as the 1610s wet interval that followed the 16th century mega drought. The instrumental records suggest that strong dry to wet precipitation reversals in the past 1000 years might be linked to strong shifts from cold to warm El Niño‐southern oscillation events and from a negative to positive Pacific decadal oscillation. Copyright © 2002 Royal Meteorological Society.

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