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2021
Raymond, C., Waliser, D.E., Guan, B., Kornhuber, K., Hulley, G., Shreevastava, A., and Slinskey, E., 2021
A Close Relationship between Atmospheric Rivers and Heat Stress in the Northern US [In Prep]
Taylor, G., P. C. Loikith, and C. Aragon, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
Future Projections of Atmospheric River Characteristics over the Contiguous United States in CMIP6 Models [In Prep]
Taylor, G., P. C. Loikith, and C. Aragon, 2021
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]
Raymond, C., Waliser, D.E., Guan, B., Lee, H., Loikith, P., Massoud, E., Sengupta, A., Singh, D., and Wootten, A., 2021
Region- and Elevation-Dependent Projections of Extreme Heat Stress Changes in the Contiguous US [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, B. Guan, and A. Martin, 2020
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
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
Raymond, C., and Mankin, J.S., 2019
Assessing Present and Future Coastal Moderation of Extreme Heat in the Eastern United States

Environ. Res. Lett
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
Massoud, E.C., Espinoza, V., Guan, B., Waliser, D., 2019
Global Climate Model Ensemble Approaches for Future Projections of Atmospheric Rivers

Earth’s Future
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
Palamuttam, R., and Coauthors, 2015
SciSpark: Applying in-memory distributed computing to weather event detection and tracking. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data

2020-2026, doi: 10.1109/BigData.2015.7363983
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
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., 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
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
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
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
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, 2169-2172, doi: 10.1109/BigData.2015.7364002
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
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
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
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
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

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