Refereed Publications by Richard Seager
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1. Cook, B.I., R. L. Miller and R. Seager, 2009: Amplification of the North American “Dust Bowl” drought through human-induced land degradation, PNAS published online before print March 16, 2009, doi:10.1073/pnas.0810200106. PDF ABS
2. Cook, E.R., R. Seager, R.R. Heim, R.S. Vose, C. Herweijer, C. Woodhouse, 2009: Megadroughts in North America: Placing IPCC Projections of Hydroclimatic Change in a Long-Term Paleoclimate Context, Journal of Quaternary Science, DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1303. PDF
3. Karnauskas K.B., Seager R., Kaplan A., Kushnir Y., Cane M.A., 2009: Observed strengthening of the zonal sea surface temperature gradient across the equatorial Pacific Ocean, Journal of Climate, 22, 4316-4321. PDF
4. Seager, R., A. Tzanova and J. Nakamura, 2009: Drought in the Southeastern United States: Causes, variability over the last millennium and the potential for future hydroclimate change, Journal of Climate, 22, 5021-5045. PDF
5. Seager, R., M.F. Ting, M. Davis, M.A. Cane, N. Naik, J. Nakamura, C. Li, E. Cook and D.W. Stahle, 2009: Mexican drought: An observational, modeling and tree ring study of variability and climate change, Atmosfera, 22, (1), 1-31. PDF
6. Stahle, D.W., E.R. Cook, J. Villanueva Díaz, F. K. Fye, D. J. Burnette, R. D. Griffin, R. Acuña Soto, R. Seager, and R. R. Heim Jr., 2009: Early 21st-Century Drought in Mexico, EOS, Vol. 90, (11), 89-100. PDF ABS
7. Ting, M. F., Y. Kushnir, R. Seager and C. H. Li, 2009: Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic. Journal of Climate, 22(6): 1469-1481. PDF ABS
8. Cook, B. I., R. L. Miller and R. Seager, 2008: Dust and sea surface temperature forcing of the 1930s "Dust Bowl" drought. Geophysical Research Letters, 35(8): -. PDF ABS
9. Emile-Geay, J., R. Seager, M. A. Cane, E. R. Cook and G. H. Haug, 2008: Volcanoes and ENSO over the past millennium. Journal of Climate, 21(13): 3134-3148. doi: 10.1175/2007JCLI1884.1. PDF ABS
10. Herweijer, C. and R. Seager, 2008: The global footprint of persistent extra-tropical drought in the instrumental era. International Journal of Climatology, 28(13): 1761-1774. PDF ABS
11. Seager, R., R. Burgman, Y. Kushnir, A. Clement, E. Cook, N. Naik and J. Miller, 2008: Tropical Pacific Forcing of North American Medieval Megadroughts: Testing the Concept with an Atmosphere Model Forced by Coral-Reconstructed SSTs. Journal of Climate, 21(23): 6175-6190. PDF ABS
12. Seager, R., Y. Kushnir, M. Ting, M. Cane, N. Naik and J. Miller, 2008: Would advance knowledge of 1930s SSTs have allowed prediction of the dust bowl drought? Journal of Climate, 21(13): 3261-3281. PDF ABS
13. Cook, E. R., R. Seager, M. A. Cane and D. W. Stahle, 2007: North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences. Earth-Science Reviews, 81(1-2): 93-134. PDF ABS
14. Emile-Geay, J., M. Cane, R. Seager, A. Kaplan and P. Almasi, 2007: El Nino as a mediator of the solar influence on climate. Paleoceanography, 22(3): PA3210, doi:10.1029/2006PA001304. PDF ABS
15. Herweijer, C., R. Seager, E. R. Cook and J. Emile-Geay, 2007: North American droughts of the last millennium from a gridded network of tree-ring data. Journal of Climate, 20(7): 1353-1376. PDF ABS
16. Murtugudde, R., R. Seager and P. Thoppi, 2007: Arabian Sea response to monsoon variations. Paleoceanography, 22(PA4217): doi:10.1029/2007PA001467. PDF ABS
17. Murtugudde, R., R. Seager and P. Thoppil, 2007: Arabian Sea response to monsoon variations. Paleoceanography, 22(4): -. ABS
18. Schubert, Siegfried, Randal Koster, Martin Hoerling, Richard Seager, Dennis Lettenmaier, Arun Kumar and David Gutzler, 2007: Predicting Drought on Seasonal-to-Decadal Time Scales. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88(10): 1625-1630. PDF
19. Seager, R. and D. S. Battisti, 2007: Challenges to our understanding of the general circulation: abrupt climate change. In: T. Schneider and A.S. Sobel (Editors), The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere: Phenomena, Theory, Challenges. Princeton University Press, pp. 331-371. PDF
20. Seager, R., 2007: The Turn of the Century drought across North America: global context, dynamics and past analogues. Journal of Climate, 20: 5527-5552. PDF ABS
21. Seager, R., M. F. Ting, I. Held, Y. Kushnir, J. Lu, G. Vecchi, H. P. Huang, N. Harnik, A. Leetmaa, N. C. Lau, C. H. Li, J. Velez(Nakamura) and N. Naik, 2007: Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America. Science, 316(5828): 1181-1184. PDF ABS
22. Seager, R., N. Graham, C. Herweijer, A. L. Gordon, Y. Kushnir and E. Cook, 2007: Blueprints for Medieval hydroclimate. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26(19-21): doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.04.020, pp. 2322-2336. PDF ABS
23. Herweijer, C., R. Seager and E. R. Cook, 2006: North American droughts of the mid to late nineteenth century: a history, simulation and implication for Mediaeval drought. Holocene, 16(2): 159-171. PDF ABS
24. Seager, R., 2006: The source of Europe's mild climate. American Scientist, 94(4): 334-341. PDF
25. Clement, A. C., R. Seager and R. Murtugudde, 2005: Why are there tropical warm pools? Journal of Climate, 18(24): 5294-5311. PDF ABS
26. Hazeleger, W., C. Severijns, R. Seager and F. Molteni, 2005: Tropical Pacific-driven decadel energy transport variability. Journal of Climate, 18(12): 2037-2051. PDF ABS
27. Herweijer, C., R. Seager, M. Winton and A. Clement, 2005: Why ocean heat transport warms the global mean climate. Tellus Series a-Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 57(4): 662-675. PDF ABS
28. Huang, H. P., R. Seager and Y. Kushnir, 2005: The 1976/77 transition in precipitation over the Americas and the influence of tropical sea surface temperature. Climate Dynamics, 24(7-8): 721-740. PDF ABS
29. Seager, R., N. Harnik, W. A. Robinson, Y. Kushnir, M.F. Ting, H. P. Huang and J. Velez(Nakamura), 2005: Mechanisms of ENSO-forcing of hemispherically symmetric precipitation variability. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 131(608): 1501-1527. PDF ABS
30. Seager, R., Y. Kushnir, C. Herweijer, N. Naik and J. Velez(Nakamura), 2005: Modeling of tropical forcing of persistent droughts and pluvials over western North America: 1856-2000. Journal of Climate, 18(19): 4065-4088. PDF ABS
31. Hazeleger, W., R. Seager, M. A. Cane and N. H. Naik, 2004: How can tropical Pacific Ocean heat transport vary? Journal of Physical Oceanography, 34(1): 320-333. PDF ABS
32. Karspeck, A. R., R. Seager and M. A. Cane, 2004: Predictability of tropical Pacific decadal variability in an intermediate model. Journal of Climate, 17(14): 2842-2850. PDF ABS
33. Seager, R., A. R. Karspeck, M. A. Cane, Y. Kushnir, A. Giannini, A. Kaplan, B. Kerman and J. Velez(Nakamura), 2004: Predicting Pacific decadal variability. In: C. Wang, S.P. Xie and J.A. Carton (Editors), Earth Climate: The ocean-atmosphere interaction, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, pp. 105-120. PDF
34. Emile-Geay, J., M. A. Cane, N. H. Naik, R. Seager, A. C. Clement and A. van Geen, 2003: Warren revisited: Atmospheric freshwater fluxes and "Why is no deep water formed in the North Pacific''. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 108(C6): 3178, doi: 10.1029/2001JC001058. PDF ABS
35. Seager, R. , R. Murtugudde, A. C. Clement and C. Herweijer, 2003: Why is there an evaporation minimum at the Equator? J. Climate, 16: 3792-3801. PDF
36. Seager, R., N. Harnik, Y. Kushnir, W. Robinson and J. Miller(Nakamura), 2003: Mechanisms of hemispherically symmetric climate variability. Journal of Climate, 16(18): 2960-2978. PDF ABS
37. Seager, R., R. Murtugudde, N. H. Naik, A. Clement, N. Gordon and J. Miller(Nakamura), 2003: Air-sea interaction and the seasonal cycle of the subtropical anticyclones. Journal of Climate, 16(12): 1948-1966. PDF ABS
38. Greene, A. M., R. Seager and W. S. Broecker, 2002: Tropical snowline depression at the Last Glacial Maximum: Comparison with proxy records using a single-cell tropical climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 107(D7-8): doi:10.1029/2001JD000670. PDF ABS
39. Kushnir, Y., R. Seager, J. Miller(Nakamura) and J. C. H. Chiang, 2002: A simple coupled model of tropical Atlantic decadal climate variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(23): 2133. PDF ABS
40. Seager, R., D. S. Battisti, J. Yin, N. Gordon, N. H. Naik, A. C. Clement and M. A. Cane, 2002: Is the Gulf Stream responsible for Europe's mild winters? Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 128(586): 2563-2586. PDF ABS
41. Clement, A. C., M. A. Cane and R. Seager, 2001: An orbitally driven tropical source for abrupt climate change. Journal of Climate, 14(11): 2369-2375. PDF ABS
42. Giannini, A., J. C. H. Chiang, M. A. Cane, Y. Kushnir and R. Seager, 2001: The ENSO teleconnection to the tropical Atlantic Ocean: Contributions of the remote and local SSTs to rainfall variability in the tropical Americas. Journal of Climate, 14(24): 4530-4544. PDF ABS
43. Hazeleger, W., R. Seager, M. Visbeck, N. H. Naik and K. Rodgers, 2001: Impact of the midlatitude storm track on the upper Pacific Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31(2): 616-636. PDF ABS
44. Seager, R., Y. Kushnir, N. H. Naik, M. A. Cane and J. Miller(Nakamura), 2001: Wind-driven shifts in the latitude of the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension and generation of SST anomalies on decadal timescales. Journal of Climate, 14(22): 4249-4265. PDF ABS
45. Seager, R., Y. Kushnir, P. Chang, N. H. Naik, J. Miller(Nakamura) and W. Hazeleger, 2001: Looking for the role of the ocean in tropical Atlantic decadal climate variability. Journal of Climate, 14(5): 638-655. LINK PDF ABS
46. Clement, A. C., R. Seager and M. A. Cane, 2000: Suppression of El Niño during the mid-Holocene by changes in the Earth's orbit. Paleoceanography, 15(6): 731-737. PDF ABS
47. Seager, R., A. C. Clement and M. A. Cane, 2000: Glacial cooling in the tropics: Exploring the roles of tropospheric water vapor, surface wind speed, and boundary layer processes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 57(13): 2144-2157. PDF ABS
48. Seager, R., Y. Kushnir, M. Visbeck, N. H. Naik, J. Miller(Nakamura), G. Krahmann and H. Cullen, 2000: Causes of Atlantic Ocean climate variability between 1958 and 1998. Journal of Climate, 13(16): 2845-2862. LINK PDF ABS
49. Clement, A. C., R. Seager and M. A. Cane, 1999: Orbital controls on the El Niño/Southern Oscillation and the tropical climate. Paleoceanography, 14(4): 441-456. PDF ABS
50. Clement, A. and R. Seager, 1999: Climate and the tropical oceans. Journal of Climate, 12(12): 3383-3401. PDF ABS
51. Clement, A., M. A. Cane and R. Seager, 1999: Patterns and mechanisms of twentieth century climate change. World Resources Rev., 10: 161-185. ABS
52. Stockdale, T. N., A. J. Busalacchi, D. E. Harrison and R. Seager, 1998: Ocean modeling for ENSO. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 103(C7): 14325-14355. PDF ABS
53. Cane, M. A., A. C. Clement, A. Kaplan, Y. Kushnir, D. Pozdnyakov, R. Seager, S. E. Zebiak and R. Murtugudde, 1997: Twentieth-century sea surface temperature trends. Science, 275(5302): 957-960. PDF ABS
54. Seager, R. and R. Murtugudde, 1997: Ocean dynamics, thermocline adjustment, and regulation of tropical SST. Journal of Climate, 10(3): 521-534. PDF ABS
55. Clement, A. C., R. Seager, M. A. Cane and S. E. Zebiak, 1996: An ocean dynamical thermostat. Journal of Climate, 9(9): 2190-2196. PDF ABS
56. Murtugudde, R., R. Seager and A. J. Busalacchi, 1996: Simulation of the tropical oceans with an ocean GCM coupled to an atmospheric mixed-layer model. Journal of Climate, 9(8): 1795-1815. PDF ABS
57. Seager, R. and S. E. Zebiak, 1995: Simulation of Tropical Climate with a Linear Primitive Equation Model. Journal of Climate, 8(10): 2497-2520. PDF ABS
58. Seager, R., M. B. Blumenthal and Y. Kushnir, 1995: An Advective Atmospheric Mixed-Layer Model for Ocean Modeling Purposes - Global Simulation of Surface Heat Fluxes. Journal of Climate, 8(8): 1951-1964. PDF ABS
59. Seager, R., Y. Kushnir and M. A. Cane, 1995: On heat flux boundary conditions for ocean models. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 25(12): 3219-3230. PDF ABS
60. Seager, R. and M. B. Blumenthal, 1994: Modeling Tropical Pacific Sea-Surface Temperature with Satellite-Derived Solar Radiative Forcing. Journal of Climate, 7(12): 1943-1957. PDF ABS
61. Seager, R. and S. E. Zebiak, 1994: Convective Interaction with Dynamics in a Linear Primitive Equation Model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 51(10): 1307-1331. PDF ABS
62. Seager, R., 1991: A Simple-Model of the Climatology and Variability of the Low-Level Wind-Field in the Tropics. Journal of Climate, 4(2): 164-179. PDF ABS
63. Seager, R., 1989: Modeling Tropical Pacific Sea-Surface Temperature - 1970-87. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 19(4): 419-434. PDF ABS
64. Seager, R., S. E. Zebiak and M. A. Cane, 1988: A Model of the Tropical Pacific Sea-Surface Temperature Climatology. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 93(C2): 1265-1280. ABS

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