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Céline Bonfils is affiliated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields within these areas emphasize:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Céline Bonfils' research addresses several key topics, such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Recent publications by Bonfils include:

  • "Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity," 2020, published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction," 2020, published in Nature Climate Change (authored by Angeline G. Pendergrass, a frequent collaborator)
  • "Learning to Correct Climate Projection Biases," 2021, published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Rapidly evolving aerosol emissions are a dangerous omission from near-term climate risk assessments," 2023, published in Environmental Research Climate
  • "Fingerprints of external forcings on Sahel rainfall: aerosols, greenhouse gases, and model-observation discrepancies," 2020, published in Environmental Research Letters

Frequent coauthors with whom Bonfils has published multiple works include:

  • Jiwoo Lee
  • Benjamin D. Santer
  • Giuliana Pallotta
  • Kate Marvel
  • Baoxiang Pan

The scientist has contributed to several publication venues with notable frequency. These venues are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Journal of Climate
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Hugo G. Hidalgo;Celine Bonfils

  • Drier summers cancel out the CO2 uptake enhancement induced by warmer springs.

    Alon Angert;S.C. Biraud;C. Bonfils;C. Henning

  • Volcanic contribution to decadal changes in tropospheric temperature

    Benjamin D. Santer;Céline Bonfils;Jeffrey F. Painter;Mark D. Zelinka

  • Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

    S. Joussaume;K. E. Taylor;P. Braconnot;J. F.B. Mitchell

  • Impacts of future climate change on California perennial crop yields: Model projections with climate and crop uncertainties

    David B. Lobell;Christopher B. Field;Kimberly Nicholas Cahill;Kimberly Nicholas Cahill;Celine Bonfils

  • Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Gerald A. Meehl;Roger Pulwarty;Mike Hobbins;Mike Hobbins

  • Detection and Attribution of Streamflow Timing Changes to Climate Change in the Western United States

    H.G. Hidalgo;T. Das;M.D. Dettinger;M.D. Dettinger;D.R. Cayan;D.R. Cayan

  • Attribution of declining Western U.S. Snowpack to human effects

    David W. Pierce;Tim P. Barnett;Hugo G. Hidalgo;Tapash Das

  • Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence

    Kate Marvel;Kate Marvel;Benjamin I. Cook;Céline J. W. Bonfils;Paul J. Durack

  • Empirical evidence for a recent slowdown in irrigation-induced cooling

    Céline Bonfils;David Lobell

  • Identifying external influences on global precipitation

    Kate Marvel;Céline Bonfils

  • Forced and unforced ocean temperature changes in Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclogenesis regions

    B. D. Santer;T. M. L. Wigley;P. J. Gleckler;C. Bonfils

  • On the influence of shrub height and expansion on northern high latitude climate

    C J W Bonfils;T J Phillips;D M Lawrence;P Cameron-Smith

  • Incorporating model quality information in climate change detection and attribution studies

    B. D. Santer;K. E. Taylor;P. J. Gleckler;C. Bonfils

  • The Effect of Irrigation on Regional Temperatures: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Trends in California, 1934–2002

    David B. Lobell;Céline Bonfils

  • Irrigation cooling effect on temperature and heat index extremes

    David B. Lobell;Celine J. Bonfils;Lara M. Kueppers;Mark A. Snyder

  • Detection and attribution of temperature changes in the mountainous Western United States

    Céline Bonfils;Benjamin D. Santer;David W. Pierce;Hugo G. Hidalgo

  • Soil feedback drives the mid-Holocene North African monsoon northward in fully coupled CCSM2 simulations with a dynamic vegetation model

    Samuel Levis;Gordon B. Bonan;Céline Bonfils

  • Detection, attribution, and sensitivity of trends toward earlier streamflow in the Sierra Nevada

    E.P. Maurer;I.T. Stewart;Celine Bonfils;P. B. Duffy;P. B. Duffy

  • Climate change uncertainty for daily minimum and maximum temperatures: A model inter-comparison

    David B. Lobell;Céline Bonfils;Philip B. Duffy;Philip B. Duffy

  • Impacts of Future Climate Change on California Perennial Crop Yields

    David Lobell;Christopher B. Field;Christopher Field;Kimberly Cahill

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin D. Santer
Benjamin D. Santer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Daniel R. Cayan
Daniel R. Cayan University of California, San Diego
Tim P. Barnett
Tim P. Barnett Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Karl E. Taylor
Karl E. Taylor Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
David W. Pierce
David W. Pierce University of California, San Diego
Michael D. Dettinger
Michael D. Dettinger Scripps Institution of Oceanography
David B. Lobell
David B. Lobell Stanford University
Govindasamy Bala
Govindasamy Bala Indian Institute of Science
Mark D. Zelinka
Mark D. Zelinka Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Carl A. Mears
Carl A. Mears Remote Sensing Systems (United States)

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