Visiting Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Research Professor, Desert Research Institute
Michael Dettinger Climate Science, LLC
CONTINENTAL-TO-GLOBAL STUDIES​
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2023
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"Review of the draft Fifth National Climate Assessment," by NASEM Committee to Review the Draft Fifth National Climate Assessment, National Academies Press.
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"Drought attribution and water resources management," by Olsen, Dettinger & Giovannettone, BAMS Explaining Extreme Events from a Climatic Perspective 2020 and 2021.
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2022
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"A multidataset assessment of climatic drivers and uncertainties of recent trends in evaporative demand across the continental US," by Albano et al, Journal of Hydrometeorology.
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2020
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"Atmospheric Rivers," by Ralph, Dettinger, Rutz, and Waliser (eds., reference book), Springer Nature, 252 p.
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"Recent changes in United States extreme 3-day precipitation using the R-Cat scale," by Lamjiri, Ralph & Dettinger, J. Hydrometeology.
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2018
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"Defining Atmospheric Rivers--How the Glossary of Meteorology helped resolve a debate," by Ralph, Dettinger, et al., BAMS.
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"Urban water systems," by Vicuna et al., Chapter 14 in Climate Change and Cities--Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, eds Rosenzweig et al., Cambridge University Press, p. 519-551
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"Hydroclimatic extremes as challenges for the water-management community--Lessons from Lake Oroville and Hurricane Harvey," by Vano et al., 2018, Explaining Extreme Events of 2017.
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2017
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"Atmospheric rivers emerge as a global science and applications focus," by Ralph, Dettinger & others, BAMS.
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"Precipitation in a warming world--Assessing projected hydroclimate changes in California and other Mediterranean climate regions," by Polade, Gershunov, Cayan, Dettinger & Pierce, Nature Scientific Reports.
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2016
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"Predictability of horizontal water vapor transport relative to precipitation--Enhanced situational awareness for forecasting western US extreme precipitation and flooding," by Lavers et al., Geophysical Research Letters.
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2015
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"Setting the stage for a global science of atmospheric rivers," by Dettinger, Ralph, and Lavers, Eos.
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"Climate change intensification of horizontal water vapor transport in CMIP5," by Lavers et al., Geophysical Research Letters.
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2014
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"An enhanced archive facilitating climate impacts and adaptation analysis," by Maurer et al, Bulletin American Meteorological Society.
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"Chapter 3--Water Resources," by Georgakakos et al., Third National Climate Assessment.
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"The key role of dry days in changing regional climate and precipitation regimes," by Polade et al., Scientific Reports.
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"Annual flood sensitivities to El Nino Southern Oscillation at the global scale," by Ward, Eisner, Fiorke, Dettinger and Kummu, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
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2013
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"Natural climate variability and teleconnections to precipitation over the Pacific-North American region in CMIP3 and CMIP5 models," by Polade, Gershunov, Cayan, Dettinger, and Pierce, Geophysical Research Letters.
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"US Geological Survey climate and land use change science strategy--A framework for understanding and responding to global change," by Burkett et al., USGS Circular 1383-A.
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2012
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"Global flood risk response to large-scale land-ocean-atmosphere interactions," by Ward, Dettinger, Jongman, Weiland, and Winemius, AGU Fall Meeting poster.
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"Understanding the water cycle--Findings from NOAA's Water Cycle Science Challenge Workshop," by Ralph, Davis, et al., NOAA Executive Summary.
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"Historical and national perspectives on extreme west coast precipitation associated with atmospheric rivers during December 2010," by Ralph and Dettinger, Bulletin of American Meteorological Society.
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2011
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"The Venice Conference--Improving the capacity to assess and to adopt to climate change in urban coastal regions," by McIntyre et al., UCSD Sustainability Soutions Institute Conference Report, Venice, Italy.
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"Climate change, water and wastewater in cities," by Major, Omojola, Dettinger, Hanson, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, Chapter 5, Climate change and cities--First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, Cambridge University Press.
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"Characterizing climate-change impacts on the 1.5-yr flood flow in selected basins across the United States--A probabilistic approach," by Walker, Hay, Markstrom, and Dettinger, Earth Interactions.
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2010
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"Potential impacts of global climate change on Tijuana River watershed hydrology--An initial analysis," by Das, Dettinger, and Cayan, report to Sustainability Solutions Institute, UCSD.
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2009
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"Venice Sustainability Advisory Panel," UCSD Sustainability Solutions Initiative.
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"Intercomparison, interpretation and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982-2006," by White, deBeurs, Didan, Inouye, Richardson, Jensen, OKeefe, Zhang, Nemani, van Leeuwen, Brown, deWit, Schaepman, Lin, Dettinger, Bailey, Kimball, Schwartz, Baldocchi, Lee, and Lauenroth, Global Change Biology.
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2008
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"Warming of the Indian Ocean threatens eastern and southern African food security but could be mitigated by agricultural development," by Funk, Dettinger, Michaelsen, Verdin, Brown, Barlow, and Hoell, Proc, National Academy of Science.
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2003
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"A delayed action oscillator shared by biennial, interannual, and decadal signals in the Pacific basin," White, Tourre, Barlow, and Dettinger, Journal of Geophysical Research.
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"Sources of global warming of the upper ocean on decadal period scales," by White, Dettinger and Cayan, Journal of Geophysical Research.
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2002
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"Exciting the delay-action oscillator of the tropical Pacific climate with small decadal solar-irradiance variations," by Dettinger and White, Paclim Poster.
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2001
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"Decadal variations and trends in snowmelt and streamflow timing: Global and North American patterns in the 20th Century," by Dettinger, Cayan, Diaz, and Stewart, HIGHEST II Workshop, Davos, Switzerland.
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"Seasonal, interannual, and trending patterns of global atmospheric water-vapor transport, 1948-2000," by Dettinger, Paclim Poster.
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2000
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"Interhemispheric Effects of Interannual and Decadal ENSO-like Climate Variations on the Americas," by Dettinger, Battisti, McCabe, Bitz, and Garreaud, Chapter 1 in "Inter-hemispheric Climate Linkages" (V. Markgraf, ed., Academic Publishers).
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"Multiscale streamflow variability associated with El Nino/Southern Oscillation," by Dettinger, Cayan, McCabe, and Marengo, Chapter 4 in "El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Multiscale Variability and Global and Regional Impacts" (Diaz and Markgraf, eds., Cambridge University Press).
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"Global Characteristics of Stream Flow Seasonality and Variability," by Michael Dettinger and Henry Diaz, pdf, Journal of Hydrometeorology, and tar file of the global_streamflow dataset described therein.
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1998
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"Seasonal and Interannual Variations of Global CO2 and Climate," by Michael Dettinger and Michael Ghil, Tellus B.
1997
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"Response of global upper ocean temperature to changing solar irradiance" by White, Lean, Cayan, and Dettinger, pdf, J. Geophysical Research.
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1995
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"Interannual and interdecadal variability in United States surface-air temperatures, 1910-87", by Michael Dettinger, Michael Ghil, and Christian L. Keppenne, Climatic Change.
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"Relations between winter precipitation and atmospheric circulation simulated by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory General Circulation Model", by Gregory McCabe, Jr., and Michael Dettinger, International Journal of Climatology.