Michael Dettinger

NEVADA HYDROLOGY & CLIMATOLOGY

 

2023

 

• "Simulated hydrologic responses to climate-change projections for the Lake Tahoe Basin," Dettinger & Rajagopal, Desert Research Institute Publication 41292; executive summary; and poster.

 

2021

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• "Climate change impacts in Nevada," by McAfee et al., original online State Government version (w/figures), or figure-free UNR Factsheet 21-06 version (also in Spanish)

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2020

 

• "Droughts aren't just about water anymore -- interview," PPIC Water blog. 

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• "Climate change impacts in Nevada," March 2021, University of Nevada Extension FS-21-06 summary, full chapter online., and also in Spanish.​

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• "Patterns and drivers of atmospheric river precipitation and hydrologic impacts across the western United States," by Albano, Dettinger, & Hrpold, January 2020, Journal of Hydrometeorology.

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2019

 

• "Seasonal analysis of the 2011-2017 North American Monsoon near irs Northwest boundary," by Truettner, Dettingeer, Ziaco & Biondi, July 2019, Atmosphere.

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• "Precipitation regime change in western North America: The role of atmospheric rivers," by Gershunov et al., July 2019, Nature Scientific Reports.

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• "A scale to characterize the strength and impacts of atmospheric rivers," by Ralph et al., February 2019, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

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2017

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• "Flood runoff in relation to water vapor transport by atmospheric rivers over the western US, 1949-2015," by Konrad and Dettinger, Geophysical Research Letters, 2017, and supplemental map.

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• "Climate scenarios for the Truckee-Carson Rivder System," by Dettinger, Sterle, Simpson, Singletary, Fitzgerald, and McCarthy, UNR Cooperative Extension Special Publication 17-05.

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• "Hourly storm characteristics along the US West Coast--Role of atmospheric rivers in extreme precipitation," by Lamjiri, Dettinger, Ralph & Guan, Geophysical Research Letters, 2017.

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• "Defining snow drought and why it matters," by Harpold, Dettinger & Rajagopal, Eos, 2017.

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• "Influence of atmospheric rivers on vegetation productivity and fire patterns in the southwestern US," by Albano, Dettinger, and Soullard, Journal of Geophysical Research--Biogeosciences, 2017.

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2016​​

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• "Natural variability, anthropogenic climate change, and impacts on water availability and flood extremes in the western United States," by Cayan, Dettinger, Pierce, Das, Knowles, Ralph, and Sumargo, chapter 2 in "Water Policy and Planning in a variable and changing climate" book (eds. Miller et al.), 2016. 

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2015

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• "Western water & climate change," by Dettinger, Udall & Georgakakos, Ecological Applications, 2015.

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2014

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• "Climate Change--Impacts in the third dimension," by Dettinger, Nature Geoscience News and Views, 2014.

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2013

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• "Assessment of climate change in the Southwest United States," (ed. G. Garfin), Chapters 1 (Summary for Decision Makers), Chapter 5 (Evolving Conditions), and Chapter 7 (Projected Extremes); for entire report, 2013.​​

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2012

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• "Projections and downscaling of 21st century temperatures, precipitation, radiative fluxes and winds for the Southwestern US with focus on Lake Tahoe," by Dettinger, Climatic Change, September 2012. 

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2009

 

• "Variability and trends in spring runoff in the western United States," by Lundquist, Dettinger, Stewart, and Cayan, 2009, Chapter 5 in F. Wagner (ed.), Climate warming in western North America--Evidence and environmental effects, University of Utah Press.

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• "Structure and detectability of trends in hydrological measures over the western United States," by Das, Hidalgo, Dettinger, Cayan, Pierce, Bonfils, Barnett, Bala, and Mirin, 2009, Journal of Hydrometeorology.

 

• "Detection and attribution of streamflow timing changes to climate change in the western United States," by Hidalgo, Das, Dettinger, Cayan, Pierce, Barnett, Bala, Mirin, Wood, Bonfils, Santer, and Nozawa, 2009, Journal of Climate.

 

2008

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• "Attribution of declining western US snowpack to human effects," by Pierce, Barnett, Hidalgo, Das, Bonfils, Santer, Bala, Dettinger, Cayan, Mirin, Wood, and Nozawa, 2008, Journal of Climate.​

 

• "Changes in aridity oin the western United States," by Hidalgo, Dettinger, and Cayan, 2008, in California Drought--An Update 2008, California DWR report.

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• "Human-induced changes in hydrology of the western United States," by Barnett, Pierce, Hidalgo, Bonfils, Santer, Das, Bala, Wood, Nozawa, Mirin, Cayan and Dettinger, Science, 2008.

 

• "Monitoring netowrks for long-term recharge change in the mountains of California and Nevada--A meeting report," by Earman and Dettinger, Report to California Energy Commission, 2008.

 

2006

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• "Trends in the temperature dependence of snow vs rain in the Western US, 1949-2001," by Dettinger, Knowles, and Catan, AGU Fall Meeting poster.

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• "Trends in snowfall versus rainfall in the western US," by Knowles, Dettinger, and Cayan, 2006, Journal of Climate.

 

• "Mountain hydrology of the western United States," by Bales, Molotch, Painter, Dettinger, Rice, and Dozier, 2006, Water Resources Research.

 

• "Mapping New Terrain--Climate Change and America's West," Report of the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains, 2006.​

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2005

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• "Recent changes towards earlier springs--Early signs of climate warming in western North America?," by Cayan, Dettinger, Stewart, and Knowles, Water Management Council Networker, Spring 2005, beginning on page 3. 

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• "Changes towards earlier streamflow timing across western North America," by Stewart, Cayan, and Dettinger, J. Climate, 2005.

 

• "Changes in streamflow timing in the western United States in recent decades," by Dettinger, USGS Fact Sheet FS2005-3018, 4 p.

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• ​"Warming trends and groundwater recharge in western mountains, with implications for groundwater and surface-water resources," by Earman and Dettinger, 2005 MTNCLIM Workshop.

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2004​​

 

• "Water Year 2004: Western water managers feel the heat," by Pagano, Pasteris, Dettinger, Cayan, and Redmond, Eos, 4 October 2004.

 

• "Changes in snowmelt runoff timing in western North America under a 'Business as usual' climate change scenario," by Stewart, Cayan, and Dettinger, Climatic Change, 2004.

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2003

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• "Hydroclimatology of Southwestern drought," by Dettinger and McCabe, invited talk to 2003 Southwest Drought Summit, Northern Arizona University.

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2002

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• "Linking diurnal cycles of river flow to interannual variations in climate," by Lundquist and Dettinger, AMS Conference on Hydrology preprint, Feb 2002.

 

• "Primary Modes and Predictability of Year-to-Year Snowpack Variations in the Western United States from Teleconnections with Pacific Ocean Climate," by McCabe and Dettinger, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Feb 2002, pp. 13-25.

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2001

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• "Changes in the Onset of Spring in the Western United States," by Cayan, Kammerdiener, Dettinger, Caprio, and Peterson, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 399-415, 2001.​

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1999

 

• "Summertime Intraseasonal and Interannual Lightning Variations in the western United States," by Dettinger, Cayan, and Brown, Proceedings, 24th Annual NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Tucson, 1-5 November 1999. 

 

• "Decadal Variability in the Strength of ENSO Teleconnections with Precipitation in the Western United States," by McCabe and Dettinger, International Journal of Climatology, v. 19, p. 1399-1410, 1999.

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1998​​

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• "Decadal Variability of Precipitation over Western North America" by Cayan, Dettinger, Diaz, and Graham, Journal of Climate, v. 11, pp. 3148-3166.

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1997

  

• "Effects of El Nino on Streamflow, Lake Level, and Landslide Potential," by Richard Reynolds, Michael Dettinger, Daniel Cayan, Doyle Stephens, Lynn Highland, and Raymond Wilson, 1997, Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use in the Southwestern United States, Web-based Workshop.

 

• "Coping With Severe and Sustained Drought in the Southwest," by M.D. Dettinger, 1997, Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use in the Southwestern United States, Web-based Workshop.

 

1996

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• "Geochemistry and isotope hydrology of representative aquifers in the Great Basin region of Nevada, Utah, and adjacent states", USGS Professional Paper 1409-C, by Thomas, J.M., Welch, A., & Dettinger, M.D.

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• "Hydrogeology of structurally extended terrain in the eastern Great Basin of Nevada, Utah, and adjacent states from geologic and geophysical models",  U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic-Investigations Atlas HA-694-D, by Dettinger & Schaefer.

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• "Potential effects of climate change on streamflow, eastern and western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada", U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 95-4260, by Jeton, Dettinger, and Smith.

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• "Ground-water conditions in Las Vegas Valley, Clark County, NV:  2, Hydrogeology and simulation of ground-water flow", US Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2320-B, by Morgan and Dettinger.

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1995

 

• "Large-scale atmospheric forcing of recent trends toward early snowmelt in California", by Michael Dettinger and Daniel Cayan, Journal of Climate, 606-623. 

 

• "Decadal trends in runoff over the western US and links to persistent North Pacific sea-surface-temperature and atmospheric-circulation patterns," by Dettinger, Cayan, and McCabe, Proc. 18th Annual NOAA Climate Diagnostics Workshop, 1994.

 

• "Decade-scale hydroclimatic forcing of ground-water levels in the central Great Basin, eastern Nevada" by M.D. Dettinger and D.H. Schaefer, 1995, AWRA Proceedings, Annual International Symposium, Honolulu, HI, June 1995, p. 195-204.

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• "Distribution of carbonate-rock aquifers and the potential for their development, Southern Nevada and parts of Arizona, California, and Utah",  U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 91-4146, by Dettinger, Harrill, Schmidt, and Hess; click here for separate public_friendly State-published summary report (published 1989; 37 pages, 8.6 Mb).

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1992

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• "Geohydrology of areas being considered for exploratory drilling and development of the carbonate-rock aquifers in southern Nevada -- Preliminary assessment",  U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 90-4077, by Dettinger.

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• "Hydrologic and geophysical data for selected wells and springs in the Sheep Range area, Clark and Lincoln counties, Nevada",  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-425, by Schaefer, Morris, and Dettinger.

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1989

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• "Reconnaissance estimates of natural recharge to desert basins in Nevada, U.S.A., by using chloride-balance calculations", by Dettinger, J. Hydrology.

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• "Distribution of carbonate-rock aquifers in southern Nevada and the potential for their development--Summary of findings, 1985-88",  Special Summary Publication of the Nevada Carbonate Aquifers Program, by Dettinger.

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• "Physical and hydrologic-flow properties of fractures: Las Vegas, Nevada-Zion Canyon, Utah-Grand Canyon, Arizona-Yucca Mountain, Nevada", 28th International Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook, by Barton, Hsieh, Angelier, Bergerat, Bouroz, Dettinger & Weeks.

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1988

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• "U.S. Geological Survey groundwater studies in Nevada",  U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-119, by Dettinger & Van Denburgh.

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1987

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• "Ground-water quality and geochemistry of Las Vegas Valley, Clark County, Nevada, 1981-83: Implementation of a monitoring network", U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4007, by Dettinger.

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