Transpiration-driven aridification of the American West in 21st-Century model projections

Justin S Mankin1,2, Jason E Smerdon3, Benjamin Cook4, Park Williams5 and Richard Seager3, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Ocean and Climate Physics, Palisades, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (5)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States