All Stories

  1. Large-Scale Environments of Successive Atmospheric River Events Leading to Compound Precipitation Extremes in California

    Article • Journal of Climate, March 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  2. Increasing co-occurrence of fine particulate matter and ground-level ozone extremes in the western United States

    Article • Science Advances, January 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  3. An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  4. Using Large Ensembles to Identify Regions of Systematic Biases in Moderate‐to‐Heavy Daily Precipitation

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain, Dr Chad W Thackeray

  5. A Shorter, Sharper Rainy Season Amplifies California Wildfire Risk

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, March 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  6. Increasing importance of temperature as a contributor to the spatial extent of streamflow drought

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, February 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  7. Moisture‐ Versus Wind‐Dominated Flavors of Atmospheric Rivers

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  8. Increased Flood Exposure Due to Climate Change and Population Growth in the United States

    Article • Earth s Future, November 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  9. Inter-model agreement on projected shifts in California hydroclimate characteristics critical to water management

    Article • Climatic Change, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  10. Population exposure to pre-emptive de-energization aimed at averting wildfires in Northern California

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, August 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  11. Future precipitation increase from very high resolution ensemble downscaling of extreme atmospheric river storms in California

    Article • Science Advances, July 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  12. Spatial Dependence of Floods Shaped by Spatiotemporal Variations in Meteorological and Land‐Surface Processes

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  13. Attributing Extreme Events to Climate Change: A New Frontier in a Warming World

    Article • One Earth, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  14. Climate Change Fanned the Flames in Californian Wildfires, Study Reveals

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, March 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  15. Simulating and Evaluating Atmospheric River‐Induced Precipitation Extremes Along the U.S. Pacific Coast: Case Studies From 1980–2017

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  16. Ridging associated with drought across the Western and Southwestern United States: characteristics, trends and predictability sources

    Article • Journal of Climate, December 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  17. Recent Warming of Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers Along the West Coast of the United States

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  18. Toward a Resilient Global Society: Air, Sea Level, Earthquakes, and Weather

    Article • Earth s Future, April 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  19. On the Connection Between Global Hydrologic Sensitivity and Regional Wet Extremes

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Chad W Thackeray, Dr Daniel L Swain

  20. Characterizing the Spatial Scales of Extreme Daily Precipitation in the United States

    Article • Journal of Climate, October 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  21. Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California

    Article • Nature Climate Change, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  22. Remote Linkages to Anomalous Winter Atmospheric Ridging Over the Northeastern Pacific

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  23. Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climate events

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  24. Recent amplification of the North American winter temperature dipole

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, September 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  25. Trends in atmospheric patterns conducive to seasonal precipitation and temperature extremes in California

    Article • Science Advances, April 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  26. A tale of two California droughts: Lessons amidst record warmth and dryness in a region of complex physical and human geography

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  27. Evaluation of Nonhydrostatic Simulations of Northeast Pacific Atmospheric Rivers and Comparison to in Situ Observations

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, September 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  28. Contribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to extreme temperature trends

    Article • Nature, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  29. Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Daniel L Swain

  30. Explaining Extreme Events of 2013 from a Climate Perspective

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, September 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Daniel L Swain