Central American Mid-Summer Drought & Rainfall Extremes
This project focuses on analyzing trends and changes in growing season rainfall patterns and extreme events across the drought-prone Dry Corridor region of Central America. We finnd that the MSD has increased in length and is interspersed with more variable episodes of rainfall across much of the region, although not yet significantly in most places. These regional trends are consistent with anecdotal evidence scattered throughout the literature and from our research in Guatemala, but localized analyses expose the challenges in capturing the complex spatial variability in Central American rainfall. This work has directly inspired and laid the groundwork for my PhD research.
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Talia Anderson
University of Minnesota Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
I am a University of Minnesota Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography, Environment & Society. I recently completed another postdoctoral fellowship with the NOAA Climate & Global Change Program and was based at the University of California - Los Angeles in the McKinnon Group. My research focuses on climate variability and change in mountain landscapes across different spatial and temporal scales. I use a variety of data types, from models to satellite imagery, to explore climate impacts in both localized areas and large, multi-country regions.