Papers

Peer-reviewed Journal Publications

2021

• Raymond, C., Waliser, D.E., Guan, B., Lee, H., Loikith, P., Massoud, E., Sengupta, A., Singh, D., and Wootten, A. Region- and Elevation-Dependent Projections of Extreme Heat Stress Changes in the Contiguous US. [in prep]

• Raymond, C., Waliser, D.E., Guan, B., Kornhuber, K., Hulley, G., Shreevastava, A., and Slinskey, E. A Close Relationship between Atmospheric Rivers and Heat Stress in the Northern US. [in prep]

• Taylor, G., P. C. Loikith, and C. Aragon: Evaluation of Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Patterns over the Pacific Northwest in CMIP6 Historical Simulations. [In prep.]

• Gonzalez-Hirshfeld, I., E. A. Slinskey, P. C. Loikith, A. Goodman, D. Waliser, and B. Guan. Evaluation of Atmospheric River Characteristics over the Contiguous United States in CMIP6 Historical Simulations. [In prep.]

• Slinskey, E. A., P. C. Loikith, I. Gonzalez-Hirshfeld, A. Goodman, D. Waliser, and B. Guan. Future Projections of Atmospheric River Characteristics over the Contiguous United States in CMIP6 Models. [In prep.]

• Taylor, G., P. C. Loikith, and C. Aragon: Projections of Change in Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns over the Pacific Northwest using CMIP6 Models. [In prep.]

• Sengupta et al., 2021: Representation of Hydroclimate Variability and Uncertainty Quantification of Future Changes in the CMIP6 climate models for the Seven US National Climate Assessment regions. [in prep.]

2020

• Kalashnikov, D.A., P.C. Loikith, A.J. Catalano, D.E. Waliser, H. Lee, and J.T. Abatzoglou, 2020: A 30-Yr Climatology of Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Days in the Interior Western United States. J. Climate.

• Massoud E. C.  H. Lee, P.B. Gibson, P. Loikith, and D. E. Waliser, 2020: Bayesian Model Averaging of Climate Model Projections Constrained by Precipitation Observations over the Contiguous United States, J. Hydrometeorology.

• Slinskey, E., P. C. Loikith, D. E. Waliser, 2020, B. Guan, and A. Martin: A Climatology of Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Precipitation for the Seven US National Climate Assessment Regions. J. Hydrometeor., 21, 2439-2456.

• Wootten AM, Massoud EC, Sengupta A, Waliser DE, Lee H., 2020: The Effect of Statistical Downscaling on the Weighting of Multi-Model Ensembles of Precipitation. Climate. 

2019

• Massoud, E.C., Espinoza, V., Guan, B., Waliser, D., 2019: Global Climate Model Ensemble Approaches for Future Projections of Atmospheric Rivers, Earth’s Future.

• Gibson, P. B., Waliser, D. E., Lee, H., Tian, B., & Massoud, E., 2019: Climate model evaluation in the presence of observational uncertainty: precipitation indices over the Contiguous United States. Journal of Hydrometeorology. doi:10.1175/jhm-d-18-0230.1

• Lee, J., D. E. Waliser, H. Lee, P. C. Loikith, and K. E. Kunkel, 2019: Evaluation of CMIP5 Ability to Reproduce 20th Century Regional Trends in Surface Air Temperature and Precipitation over CONUS, Clim Dynam.

• Raymond, C., and Mankin, J.S., 2019: Assessing Present and Future Coastal Moderation of Extreme Heat in the Eastern United States. Environ. Res. Lett. 

• Slinskey, E., P. C. Loikith, D. E. Waliser, and A. Goodman, 2019: An Extreme Precipitation Categorization Scheme and its Observational Uncertainty over the Continental United States. J. Hydrometeor., 20, 1029-1052.

2018

• Lee, H., A. Goodman, L. Mcgibbney, D. E. Waliser, J. Kim, P. C. Loikith, P. B. Gibson, and E. C. Massoud, 2018: Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (RCMES) powered by Apache Open Climate Workbench (OCW) v1.3.0: an enabling tool for facilitating regional climate studies, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4435-4449, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4435-2018.

• Kim, J., B. Guan, D. E. Waliser, R. D. Ferraro, J. Case, T. Iguchi, E. Kemp, W. Putman, W. Wang, D. Wu, and B. Tian, 2018: Winter precipitation characteristics in western US related to atmospheric river landfalls: observations and model evaluations. Clim Dynam, doi: 10.1007/s00382-017-3601-5.

• Amador J. A., T. Ambrizzi, R. W. Arritt, C. L. Castro, T. Cavazos, R. Cerezo-Mota, R. Fuentes-Franco, F. Giorgi, G. Guiliani, H. Lee, M. Mendex-Perez, and E. R. Rivera, 2018: Putting into action the REGCM4.6 regional climate model for the study of climate change, variability and modeling over Central America and Mexico, Atmósfera, Vol 31, No 2.

2017

• Iguchi, T. , W. Tao, D. Wu, C. Peters-Lidard, J. A. Santanello, E. Kemp, Y. Tian, J. Case, W. Wang, R. Ferraro, D. Waliser, J. Kim, H. Lee, B. Guan, B. Tian, P. Loikith, 2017: Sensitivity of CONUS summer rainfall to the selection of cumulus parameterization schemes in NU-WRF seasonal simulations. J Hydrometeorol, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0120.1.

• Lee, H., D. E. Waliser, R. Ferraro, T. Iguchi, C. D. Peters-Lidard, B. Tian, P. C. Loikith, and D. B. Wright, 2017: Evaluating hourly rainfall characteristics over the U.S. Great Plains in dynamically downscaled climate model simulations using NASA-Unified WRF. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi: 10.1002/2017jd026564.

• Loikith, P.C., D. E. Waliser, J. Kim, and R. Ferraro, 2017:  Evaluation of Cool Season Precipitation Event Characteristics over the Northeasat US in a Suite of Downscaled Climate Model Hindcasts, Clim Dyn., doi: 10.1007/s00382-017-3837-0.

• Soares, D. D., H. Lee, P. C. Loikith, A. Barkhordarian, and C. R. Mechoso, 2017: Can significant trends be detected in surface air temperature and precipitation over South America in recent decades? Int J Climatol, 37, 1483-1493, doi: 10.1002/joc.4792.

• Tian, B., H. Lee, D.E. Waliser, D. Ferraro, J. Kim, J. Case, T. Iguchi, E. Kemp, D. Wu, W. Putnam, and W. Wang, 2017: Development of a model performance metric and its application to assess summer precipitation over the US Great Plains in downscaled climate simulations, J. of Hydrometeo., doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-17-0045.s1.

2016

• Gil, Y., C.H. David, I. Demir, B.T. Essawy, R.W. Fulweiler, J.L. Goodall, L. Karlstrom, H. Lee, H.J. Mills, J. Oh, S.A. Pierce, A. Pope, M.W. Tzeng, S.R. Villamizar, and X. Yu, 2016: Toward the Geoscience Paper of the Future: Best practices for documenting and sharing research from data to software to provenance. Earth Space Sci, 3, 388-415, doi: 10.1002/2015EA000136.

• Wilson, B.,  R. Palamuttam, K. Whitehall, C. Mattman, A. Goodman, M. Boustani, S. Shah, P. Zimdars, and P. Ramirez, 2016: SciSpark: Highly interactive in-memory science data analytics. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2964-2973, doi: 10.1109/BigData.2016.7840948.

2015

• Ferraro, R., Waliser, D.E., Gleckler, P., Taylor, K.E., and Eyring, V. 2015: Evolving Obs4MIPS to support phase 6 of the coupled model intercomparison project (CMIP6), American Meteorological Society, 96(8),  131 - 133, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00216.1.

• Guan, B., and D. E. Waliser, 2015, Detection of atmospheric rivers: Evaluation and application of an algorithm for global studies, Journal of Geophysical Research, 120, 12,514–512,535, doi: 10.1002/2015JD024257.

• Kim, J., J. Sanjay, C. Mattman, M. Boustani, V.S. Ramarao, R. Krishnan, D.E. Waliser, 2015: Uncertainties in estimating spatial and interannual variations in precipitation climatology in the India–Tibet region from multiple gridded precipitation datasets, Int. J. Clim., DOI: 10.1002/joc.4306.

• Lavers, D. A., F. M. Ralph, D. E. Waliser, A. Gershunov, and M. D. Dettinger, 2015, Climate change intensification of horizontal water vapor transport in CMIP5, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL064672.

• Lee, H., L. Cinquini, D. Crichton, and A. Braverman, 2015: Optimization of system architecture for Big Data analysis in climate science. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2169-2172, doi: 10.1109/BigData.2015.7364002.

• Loikith, P. C., and J. D. Neelin, 2015:  Short-tailed Temperature Distributions over North America and Implications for Future Changes in Extremes. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL065602.

• Loikith, P.C., D. Waliser, H. Lee, J.D. Neelin, B.R. Lintner, S. McGinnis, L.O. Mearns, J. Kim, 2015: Evaluation of large-scale meteorological patterns associated with temperature extremes in the NARCCAP regional climate model simulations. Clim. Dyn., doi: 10.1007/s00382-015-2537-x.

• Loikith, P. C., D. E. Waliser, H. Lee, J. Kim, J. D. Neelin, B. R. Lintner, S. McGinnis, C. Mattmann, and L. O. Mearns, 2015:  Surface Temperature Probability Distributions in the NARCCAP Hindcast Experiment:  Evaluation Methodology, Metrics and Results.  J. Climate, 28, 978-997, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00457.1.

• Palamuttam, R., and Coauthors, 2015: SciSpark: Applying in-memory distributed computing to weather event detection and tracking. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2020-2026, doi: 10.1109/BigData.2015.7363983.

2014

• Kim, D., P. Xavier, E. Maloney, M. Wheeler, D.E. Waliser, K. Sperber, H. Hendon, C. Zhang, R. Neale, Y.-T. Hwang, and H. Liu, 2014: Process-oriented MJO Simulation Diagnostic: Moisture Sensitivity of Simulated Convection. J. Climate. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00497.1.

• Lee, H., J. Kim, D.E. Waliser, P. C. Loikith, C. A. Mattmann, S. McGinnis, 2014: Using Joint Probability Distribution Functions to Evaluate Simulations of Precipitation, Cloud Fraction and Insolation in the North America Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP). Clim. Dyn., doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2523-y.

• Loikith, P., J. Kim, H. Lee, b. Lintner, C. Mattmann, J. David Neelin, D. Waliser, L. Mearns, and S. Mcginnis, 2014: Evaluation of surface temperature probability distribution functions in the NARCCAP hindcast experiment. J. Climate, accepted.

• Mattmann, C., D. Waliser, J. Kim, C. Goodale, A. Hart, P. Ramirez, D. Crichton, P. Zimdars, M. Boustani, H. Lee, P. Loikith, K. Whitehall, C. Jack, B. Hewitson, 2014: Cloud computing and virtulization within the Regional Climate Model Evaluation System. Earth Sci. Informatics, doi 10.1007/s12145-013-0126-2.

• Teixeira, J., D.E. Waliser, R. Ferraro, P. Gleckler, T. Lee and G. Potter, 2014: Satellite Observations for CMIP5: The Genesis of Obs4MIPs. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00204.1.

• Whitehall, K., C. Mattmann, G. Jenkins, M. Rwebangira, B. Demoz, D. Waliser, J. Kim, C. Goodale, A. Hart, P. Ramirez, M. Joyce, M. Boustani, P. Zimdars, P. Loikith, and H. Lee, 2014: Exploring a graph theory based algorithm for automated identification and characterization of large mesoscale convective systems in satellite datasets. Earth Science Informatics, DOI 10.1007/s12145-014-0181-3.

2013

• Kim, J., D. Waliser, C. Mattmann, C. Goodale, A. Hart, P. Zimdars, D. Crichton, C. Jones, G. Nikulin, B. Hewitson, C. Jack, C. Lennard, and A. Favre, 2013: Evaluation of the CORDEX-Africa multi-RCM hindcast: systematic model errors. Clim Dyn, DOI 10.1007/s00382-013-1751-7. Supplemental figures.

• Kim, J., D.E. Waliser, C.A. Mattmann, L.O. Mearns, C.E. Goodale, A.F. Hart, D.J. Crichton, S. McGinnis, H. Lee, P.C. Loikith, and M. Boustani, 2013: Evaluation of the surface climatology over the conterminous United States in the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program hindcast experiment using a Regional Climate Model Evaluation System. J. Climate, 26, 5698-5715.

• Loikith, P.C., B.R. Lintner, J. Kim, H. Lee, J.D. Neelin, and D.E. Waliser, 2013: Classifying reanalysis surface temperature probability density functions (pdfs) over North America with cluser analysis. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 1-5, doi: 10.1002/grl.50688.

• Ryoo, J., Y. Kaspi, D. Waugh, G. Kiladis, D. Waliser, E. Fetzer, J. Kim, 2013: Impact of Rossby wave breaking on U.S. west coast winter precipitation during ENSO events. J. Climate, 26, 6360-6382, doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-12-00297.1.

2012

• Crichton, D.J., C.A. Mattmann, L. Cinquini, A. Braverman, D.E. Waliser, M. Gunson, A. Hart, C. Goodale, P.W. Lean, and J. Kim, 2012: Sharing satellite observations with the climate modeling community: Software and architecture. IEEE Software, 29, September/October, 73-81.

• Kim, J., D.E. Waliser, P.J. Neiman, B. guan, J.-M. Ryoo, and G.A. Wick, 2012: Effects of atmospheric river landfalls on the cold season precipitation in California. Climate Dynamics, 40, 465-474, DOI 10.1007/s00382-012-1322-3.

• Waliser, D.E., B. Guan, J.F. Lee, and J. Kim, 2012: Addendum to "Simulating cold season snowpack: Impacts of snow albedo and multi-layer snow physics": Waliser, D., J. Kim, Y. Xue, Y. Chao, A. Eldering, R. Fovell, A. Hall, Q. Li, K. N. Liou, J. McWilliams, S. Kapnick, R. Vasic, F. De Sale, and Y. Yu (2001), Climatic Change, 109 (Suppl1):S95-S117, DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0312-5. Climatic Change, 114, 399-400, DOI 10.1007/s10584-012-0531-4.

• Whitehall, K., C. Mattmann, D. Waliser, Jinwon Kim, C. Goodale, A. Hart, P. Ramirez, P. Zimdars, D. Crichton, G. Jenkins, C. Jones, G. Asrar, and B. Hewitson, 2012: Building model evaluation and decision support capacity for CORDEX. WMO Bulletin, 61, 29-34.

2011

• Gleckler, P., R. Ferraro, and D. E. Waliser, 2011: Improving the use of satellite data in evaluating climate models. EOS, Vol. 92, 172.

• Hughes, M., A. Hall, and J. Kim, 2011: Human-induced changes in winds, temperature and relative humidity during Santa Ana events. Climatic Change, 109, S119-S132, doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0300-9.

• Waliser, D.E., J. Kim, Y. Xue, Y. Chao, A. Eldering, R. Fovell, Q. Li, K. Liou, J. McWilliams, S. Kapnick, R. Vasic, Fs. De Sale, and Y. Yu, 2011: Simulating the Sierra Nevada snowpack: The impact of snow albedo and multi-layer snow physics. Climatic Change, 109, S95-S117, DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0312-5.