David Hubbard

Travel the West's most famous highway, historic Route 66, through classic towns still filled with Americana - and so much more.

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation is the dominant mode of interannual climate variability across the Pacific Ocean basin, with influence on the global climate. The two end members of the cycle, El Niño and La Niña, force anomalous oceanographic conditions and coastal response along the Pacific margin, exposing many heavily populated regions to increased coastal flooding and erosion hazards.

During the winter of 2015–2016, highly elevated winter wave energy flux (?50% above normal), coupled with seasonally elevated water levels (+11?cm), drove unprecedented levels of winter shoreline retreat (76% above normal), including the most landward shoreline positions measured for the majority of beaches in California since topographic data collection began 20 years ago.