selected publications

• conference proceeding

  • The 1930s drought in the US Great Plains: New perspectives and a look at land surface responses.  28-29. 2002
  • Western North America winter season storm tracks and precipitation variability.  382-385. 1995

• journal article

  • Characteristics and Predictability of Midwestern United States Drought.  Journal of Hydrometeorology. 3087-3105. 2021
  • Preconditions for extreme wet winters over the contiguous United States.  Weather and Climate Extremes. 2021
  • Explaining the Spatial Pattern of US Extreme Daily Precipitation Change.  Journal of Climate. 2759-2775. 2021
  • Lessons Learned from the 2017 Flash Drought across the US Northern Great Plains and Canadian Prairies.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. E2171-E2185. 2020
  • Characteristics, precursors, and potential predictability of Amu Darya Drought in an Earth system model large ensemble.  Climate Dynamics. 2185-2206. 2020
  • Confirmation for and Predictability of Distinct US Impacts of El Nino Flavors.  Journal of Climate. 5971-5991. 2020
  • Facility for Weather and Climate Assessments (FACTS) A Community Resource for Assessing Weather and Climate Variability.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. E1214-E1224. 2020
  • Understanding Recent Eastern Horn of Africa Rainfall Variability and Change.  Journal of Climate. 8630-8645. 2014
  • Reconciling precipitation trends in Alaska: 1. Station-based analyses.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 7523-7541. 2013
  • ONLINE RAINFALL ATLAS OF HAWAI'I.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 313-316. 2013
  • Is a Transition to Semipermanent Drought Conditions Imminent in the US Great Plains?.  Journal of Climate. 8380-8386. 2012
  • The once and future pulse of Indian monsoonal climate.  Climate Dynamics. 2159-2170. 2011
  • Changes in the vertical profiles of mean temperature and humidity in the Hawaiian Islands.  Global and Planetary Change. 21-25. 2011
  • What a difference a century makes: Understanding the changing hydrologic regime and storage requirements in the Upper Colorado River basin.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2008
  • Constructing retrospective gridded daily precipitation and temperature datasets for the conterminous United States.  Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 475-497. 2008
  • Disappearing "alpine tundra'' Koppen climatic type in the western United States.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2007
  • Variability of freezing levels, melting season indicators, and snow cover for selected high- elevation and continental regions in the last 50 years.  Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change. 33-52. 2003
  • ENSO variability, teleconnections and climate change.  International Journal of Climatology. 1845-1862. 2001
  • Climate variability in regions of amphibian declines.  Conservation Biology. 930-942. 2001
  • Creating a serially complete, national daily time series of temperature and precipitation for the western United States.  Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 1580-1591. 2000
  • THE QUALITY-CONTROL OF LONG-TERM CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA USING OBJECTIVE DATA-ANALYSIS.  Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 2787-2795. 1995
  • INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY OF THE ONSET OF THE INDIAN-SUMMER MONSOON AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH ATMOSPHERIC FEATURES, EL-NINO, AND SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES.  Journal of Climate. 81-105. 1994
  • PRECIPITATION FLUCTUATIONS OVER GLOBAL LAND AREAS SINCE THE LATE 1800S.  Journal of Geophysical Research. 1195-1210. 1989
  • PREDICTION OF ALL-INDIA SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL WITH REGIONAL AND LARGE-SCALE PARAMETERS.  Journal of Geophysical Research. 5341-5350. 1988
  • PRECIPITATION FLUCTUATIONS OVER NORTHERN-HEMISPHERE LAND AREAS SINCE THE MID-19TH CENTURY.  Science. 171-175. 1987
  • ENSO SIGNAL IN CONTINENTAL TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION RECORDS.  Nature. 497-501. 1987