On the Influence of the Pacific and Atlantic Meridional Modes on Precipitation over the Continental United States

Wei Zhang, University of Iowa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States, Gabriele Villarini, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering & High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States and Gabriel Andres Vecchi, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States