List of works - Richard Seager

A Mechanisms-Based Approach to Detecting Recent Anthropogenic Hydroclimate Change*

A Pacific Centennial Oscillation Predicted by Coupled GCMs*

A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results

article

A quantitative hydroclimatic context for the European Great Famine of 1315–1317

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Air–Sea Interaction and the Seasonal Cycle of the Subtropical Anticyclones*

Amplification of the North American "Dust Bowl" drought through human-induced land degradation

scholarly article

An Ocean Dynamical Thermostat

scholarly article

An Orbitally Driven Tropical Source for Abrupt Climate Change

scholarly article

Are Glacials Dry? Consequences for Paleoclimatology and for Greenhouse Warming

scientific article published on 22 May 2017

Are Simulated Megadroughts in the North American Southwest Forced?*

scientific article

Atmosphere-ocean dynamics of persistent cold states of the tropical Pacific Ocean

scientific article

Atmospheric Circulation Response to an Instantaneous Doubling of Carbon Dioxide. Part I: Model Experiments and Transient Thermal Response in the Troposphere*

article

Blue Water Trade-Offs With Vegetation in a CO2 -Enriched Climate

scholarly article

Blueprints for Medieval hydroclimate

article

Categorical representation of North American precipitation projections

scientific article

Causes and Implications of Extreme Atmospheric Moisture Demand during the Record-Breaking 2011 Wildfire Season in the Southwestern United States*

scholarly article by A. Park Williams et al published December 2014 in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Causes of Atlantic Ocean Climate Variability between 1958 and 1998*

Causes of change in Northern Hemisphere winter meridional winds and regional hydroclimate

scientific article published on 04 September 2015

Causes of interannual to decadal variability of Gila River streamflow over the past century

article by M.A. Pascolini-Campbell et al published March 2015 in Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies

Causes of the 2011–14 California Drought*

Changes in storm tracks and energy transports in a warmer climate simulated by the GFDL CM2.1 model

scientific article published in 2010

Climate Change Amplification of Natural Drought Variability: The Historic Mid-Twentieth-Century North American Drought in a Warmer World

scientific article

Climate Dynamics Preceding Summer Forest Fires in California and the Extreme Case of 2018

scientific article published in 2022

Climate and the Global Famine of 1876–78

scholarly article by Deepti Singh et al published December 2018 in Journal of Climate

Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought

scientific article

Climatology, Variability, and Trends in the U.S. Vapor Pressure Deficit, an Important Fire-Related Meteorological Quantity*

Commentary on the Syria case: Climate as a contributing factor

Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014

article

Contribution of ocean overturning circulation to tropical rainfall peak in the Northern Hemisphere

Correlations between components of the water balance and burned area reveal new insights for predicting forest fire area in the southwest United States

article by A. Park Williams et al published 2015 in International Journal of Wildland Fire

Covariability of climate and streamflow in the Upper Rio Grande from interannual to interdecadal timescales

scientific article

Croll revisited: Why is the northern hemisphere warmer than the southern hemisphere?

article

Decadal Drought Variability Over North America: Mechanisms and Predictability

article by Richard Seager & Mingfang Ting published 23 March 2017 in Current climate change reports

Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO 2

scientific article

Divergent Regional Climate Consequences of Maintaining Current Irrigation Rates in the 21st Century

scientific article

Does Global Warming Cause Intensified Interannual Hydroclimate Variability?*

scientific article

Drought in the Southeastern United States: Causes, Variability over the Last Millennium, and the Potential for Future Hydroclimate Change*

article by Richard Seager et al published October 2009 in Journal of Climate

Dynamical Structure of Extreme Floods in the U.S. Midwest and the United Kingdom

Dynamical and Thermodynamic Elements of Modeled Climate Change at the East African Margin of Convection

scholarly article by Alessandra Giannini et al published 23 January 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Dynamics and Variability of the Spring Dry Season in the United States Southwest as Observed in AmeriFlux and NLDAS-2 Data

scientific article

ENSO-driven coupled megadroughts in North and South America over the last millennium

scientific article

Extreme Weather and Climate: Workshop Report

Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic

scientific article (publication date: March 2009)

Forced and unforced variability of twentieth century North American droughts and pluvials

Framing the frame: Cause and effect in climate-related migration

scientific article published on 07 July 2022

Global Meteorological Drought: A Synthesis of Current Understanding with a Focus on SST Drivers of Precipitation Deficits

Global warming and 21st century drying

scientific article published on 05 March 2014

Greenhouse warming and the 21st century hydroclimate of southwestern North America

scientific article

How Can Tropical Pacific Ocean Heat Transport Vary?

article published in 2004

How Does Sea Surface Temperature Drive the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the Southern Indian Ocean?

scientific article published on 27 April 2022

Impact of the Midlatitude Storm Track on the Upper Pacific Ocean

article by Wilco Hazeleger et al published February 2001 in Journal of Physical Oceanography

Intensification of North American Megadroughts through Surface and Dust Aerosol Forcing*

scientific article

Investigating the causes of increased 20th-century fall precipitation over the southeastern United States

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Is an Epic Pluvial Masking the Water Insecurity of the Greater New York City Region?*,+

article by Neil Pederson et al published February 2013 in Journal of Climate

Landslides in West Coast metropolitan areas: The role of extreme weather events

scientific article published in 2016

Life cycles of agriculturally relevant ENSO teleconnections in North and South America

scholarly article by Weston Anderson et al published 11 November 2016 in International Journal of Climatology

Looking for the Role of the Ocean in Tropical Atlantic Decadal Climate Variability*

article by Richard Seager et al published March 2001 in Journal of Climate

Mechanism of Future Spring Drying in the Southwestern United States in CMIP5 Models

scientific article

Mechanisms of Hemispherically Symmetric Climate Variability*

scientific article (publication date: September 2003)

Mechanisms of a meteorological drought onset: summer 2020 to spring 2021 in southwestern North America

scientific article published in 2022

Mediterranean Summer Climate and the Importance of Middle East Topography*

scientific article published on 08 December 2014

Megadroughts in North America: placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long-term palaeoclimate context

scientific article

Megadroughts in Southwestern North America in ECHO-G Millennial Simulations and Their Comparison to Proxy Drought Reconstructions*

Mid-latitude freshwater availability reduced by projected vegetation responses to climate change

Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America

scientific article

Modeling of Tropical Forcing of Persistent Droughts and Pluvials over Western North America: 1856–2000*

article

Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean

scientific article published on January 2013

North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability

article by Justin Sheffield et al published December 2013 in Journal of Climate

North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments: Part III: Assessment of Twenty-First-Century Projections*

article by Eric D. Maloney et al published March 2014 in Journal of Climate

North American Droughts of the Last Millennium from a Gridded Network of Tree-Ring Data

scientific article published in April 2007

North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences

scholarly article published in March 2007

North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations

scholarly article by Benjamin I. Cook et al published 29 March 2016 in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WIREs Climate Change

Observational analysis of decadal and long-term hydroclimate drivers in the Mediterranean region: role of the ocean–atmosphere system and anthropogenic forcing

scientific article published in 2021

Oceanic Drivers of Widespread Summer Droughts in the United States Over the Common Era

scientific article published in 2019

Oceanic and radiative forcing of medieval megadroughts in the American Southwest

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

On the Causes and Dynamics of the Early Twentieth-Century North American Pluvial

scientific article

On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories

scientific article published in 2022

Pacific Ocean Forcing and Atmospheric Variability Are the Dominant Causes of Spatially Widespread Droughts in the Contiguous United States

scientific article

Persistent Discrepancies between Observed and Modeled Trends in the Tropical Pacific Ocean

scientific article published in 2022

Precipitation, Temperature, and Teleconnection Signals across the Combined North American, Monsoon Asia, and Old World Drought Atlases

article

Predictability and prediction of persistent cool states of the Tropical Pacific Ocean

Predicting Pacific Decadal Variability

article by Richard Seager et al published 19 March 2013 in Geophysical Monograph

Projections of declining surface-water availability for the southwestern United States

scholarly article

Quantifying atmosphere and ocean origins of North American precipitation variability

scientific article published in 2021

Revisiting the Leading Drivers of Pacific Coastal Drought Variability in the Contiguous United States

Stratospheric ozone depletion: a key driver of recent precipitation trends in South Eastern South America

scholarly article by Paula L. M. Gonzalez et al published 5 May 2013 in Climate Dynamics

Strengthening tropical Pacific zonal sea surface temperature gradient consistent with rising greenhouse gases

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

The 2016 southeastern US drought: an extreme departure from centennial wetting and cooling

scientific article published on 04 October 2017

The Curious Case of Projected Twenty-First-Century Drying but Greening in the American West

scientific article published on 03 October 2017

The Source of Europe’s Mild Climate

article

The anomalous winter of 1783-1784: Was the Laki eruption or an analog of the 2009-2010 winter to blame?

article

The improbable but unexceptional occurrence of megadrought clustering in the American West during the Medieval Climate Anomaly

The worst North American drought year of the last millennium: 1934

article by Benjamin I. Cook et al published 18 October 2014 in Geophysical Research Letters

Thermodynamic and Dynamic Mechanisms for Large-Scale Changes in the Hydrological Cycle in Response to Global Warming*

article

Tropical Pacific Forcing of North American Medieval Megadroughts: Testing the Concept with an Atmosphere Model Forced by Coral-Reconstructed SSTs*

scientific article

Turbulent Heat Flux, Downward Longwave Radiation, and Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Associated with Wintertime Barents–Kara Sea Extreme Sea Ice Loss Events

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Urbanization causes increased cloud base height and decreased fog in coastal Southern California

article

Volcanoes and ENSO over the Past Millennium

scholarly article by Julien Emile-Geay et al published July 2008 in Journal of Climate

Western boundary currents and climate change

scientific article published in 2016

Whither the 100th Meridian? The Once and Future Physical and Human Geography of America’s Arid–Humid Divide. Part I: The Story So Far

Whither the 100th Meridian? The Once and Future Physical and Human Geography of America’s Arid–Humid Divide. Part II: The Meridian Moves East

Why ocean heat transport warms the global mean climate

scientific article published in 2005

List of works by Richard Seager

A Mechanisms-Based Approach to Detecting Recent Anthropogenic Hydroclimate Change*

A Pacific Centennial Oscillation Predicted by Coupled GCMs*

A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results

A quantitative hydroclimatic context for the European Great Famine of 1315–1317

Air–Sea Interaction and the Seasonal Cycle of the Subtropical Anticyclones*

Amplification of the North American "Dust Bowl" drought through human-induced land degradation

An Ocean Dynamical Thermostat

An Orbitally Driven Tropical Source for Abrupt Climate Change

Are Glacials Dry? Consequences for Paleoclimatology and for Greenhouse Warming

Are Simulated Megadroughts in the North American Southwest Forced?*

Atmosphere-ocean dynamics of persistent cold states of the tropical Pacific Ocean

Atmospheric Circulation Response to an Instantaneous Doubling of Carbon Dioxide. Part I: Model Experiments and Transient Thermal Response in the Troposphere*

Blue Water Trade-Offs With Vegetation in a CO2 -Enriched Climate

Blueprints for Medieval hydroclimate

Categorical representation of North American precipitation projections

Causes and Implications of Extreme Atmospheric Moisture Demand during the Record-Breaking 2011 Wildfire Season in the Southwestern United States*

Causes of Atlantic Ocean Climate Variability between 1958 and 1998*

Causes of change in Northern Hemisphere winter meridional winds and regional hydroclimate

Causes of interannual to decadal variability of Gila River streamflow over the past century

Causes of the 2011–14 California Drought*

Changes in storm tracks and energy transports in a warmer climate simulated by the GFDL CM2.1 model

Climate Change Amplification of Natural Drought Variability: The Historic Mid-Twentieth-Century North American Drought in a Warmer World

Climate Dynamics Preceding Summer Forest Fires in California and the Extreme Case of 2018

Climate and the Global Famine of 1876–78

Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought

Climatology, Variability, and Trends in the U.S. Vapor Pressure Deficit, an Important Fire-Related Meteorological Quantity*

Commentary on the Syria case: Climate as a contributing factor

Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014

Contribution of ocean overturning circulation to tropical rainfall peak in the Northern Hemisphere

Correlations between components of the water balance and burned area reveal new insights for predicting forest fire area in the southwest United States

Covariability of climate and streamflow in the Upper Rio Grande from interannual to interdecadal timescales

Croll revisited: Why is the northern hemisphere warmer than the southern hemisphere?

Decadal Drought Variability Over North America: Mechanisms and Predictability

Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO 2

Divergent Regional Climate Consequences of Maintaining Current Irrigation Rates in the 21st Century

Does Global Warming Cause Intensified Interannual Hydroclimate Variability?*

Drought in the Southeastern United States: Causes, Variability over the Last Millennium, and the Potential for Future Hydroclimate Change*

Dynamical Structure of Extreme Floods in the U.S. Midwest and the United Kingdom

Dynamical and Thermodynamic Elements of Modeled Climate Change at the East African Margin of Convection

Dynamics and Variability of the Spring Dry Season in the United States Southwest as Observed in AmeriFlux and NLDAS-2 Data

ENSO-driven coupled megadroughts in North and South America over the last millennium

Extreme Weather and Climate: Workshop Report

Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic

Forced and unforced variability of twentieth century North American droughts and pluvials

Framing the frame: Cause and effect in climate-related migration

Global Meteorological Drought: A Synthesis of Current Understanding with a Focus on SST Drivers of Precipitation Deficits

Global warming and 21st century drying

Greenhouse warming and the 21st century hydroclimate of southwestern North America

How Can Tropical Pacific Ocean Heat Transport Vary?

How Does Sea Surface Temperature Drive the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the Southern Indian Ocean?

Impact of the Midlatitude Storm Track on the Upper Pacific Ocean

Intensification of North American Megadroughts through Surface and Dust Aerosol Forcing*

Investigating the causes of increased 20th-century fall precipitation over the southeastern United States

Is an Epic Pluvial Masking the Water Insecurity of the Greater New York City Region?*,+

Landslides in West Coast metropolitan areas: The role of extreme weather events

Life cycles of agriculturally relevant ENSO teleconnections in North and South America

Looking for the Role of the Ocean in Tropical Atlantic Decadal Climate Variability*

Mechanism of Future Spring Drying in the Southwestern United States in CMIP5 Models

Mechanisms of Hemispherically Symmetric Climate Variability*

Mechanisms of a meteorological drought onset: summer 2020 to spring 2021 in southwestern North America

Mediterranean Summer Climate and the Importance of Middle East Topography*

Megadroughts in North America: placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long-term palaeoclimate context

Megadroughts in Southwestern North America in ECHO-G Millennial Simulations and Their Comparison to Proxy Drought Reconstructions*

Mid-latitude freshwater availability reduced by projected vegetation responses to climate change

Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America

Modeling of Tropical Forcing of Persistent Droughts and Pluvials over Western North America: 1856–2000*

Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean

North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability

North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments: Part III: Assessment of Twenty-First-Century Projections*

North American Droughts of the Last Millennium from a Gridded Network of Tree-Ring Data

North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences

North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations

Observational analysis of decadal and long-term hydroclimate drivers in the Mediterranean region: role of the ocean–atmosphere system and anthropogenic forcing

Oceanic Drivers of Widespread Summer Droughts in the United States Over the Common Era

Oceanic and radiative forcing of medieval megadroughts in the American Southwest

Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

On the Causes and Dynamics of the Early Twentieth-Century North American Pluvial

On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories