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Overview

Christopher Daly is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States and focuses their research on environmental and earth sciences. Their work emphasizes understanding climate variability and the dynamics of plant water relations and carbon cycles, alongside studies of fire impacts on ecosystems and cryospheric observations. They also address precipitation measurement and meteorological phenomena through data-driven approaches.

Daly has contributed to multiple subfields within earth and environmental sciences, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, plant science, artificial intelligence applications, and water science and technology. Their research integrates these areas to explore climate-related questions from a range of perspectives and scales.

The main topics explored in their publications include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Their frequent co-authors comprise several researchers with whom they have conducted collaborative studies:

  • David E. Rupp
  • Christopher J. Still
  • Mark Schulze
  • Julia Jones
  • Adam Sibley

Christopher Daly has published in a variety of scientific journals spanning related environmental and atmospheric disciplines. Notable venues for their work include:

  • Tree Physiology
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Recent published papers by Daly and collaborators cover a breadth of topics. Among these are:

  • "Causes of widespread foliar damage from the June 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome: more heat than drought," 2023, Tree Physiology
  • "Challenges in Observation-Based Mapping of Daily Precipitation across the Conterminous United States," 2021, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • "Temperature Gradients and Inversions in a Forested Cascade Range Basin: Synoptic- to Local-Scale Controls," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Mapping an Observation-Based Global Solar Irradiance Climatology across the Conterminous United States," 2022, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • "Influence of anthropogenic greenhouse gases on the propensity for nocturnal cold-air drainage," 2021, Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Best Publications

  • A Statistical-Topographic Model for Mapping Climatological Precipitation over Mountainous Terrain

    Christopher Daly;Ronald P. Neilson;Donald L. Phillips

  • Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States

    Christopher Daly;Michael Halbleib;Joseph I. Smith;Wayne P. Gibson

  • A knowledge-based approach to the statistical mapping of climate

    Christopher Daly;Wayne P. Gibson;George H. Taylor;Gregory L. Johnson

  • GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING THE SUITABILITY OF SPATIAL CLIMATE DATA SETS

    Christopher Daly

  • Managing Climate Change Refugia for Climate Adaptation

    Toni Lyn Morelli;Toni Lyn Morelli;Christopher Daly;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Deanna M. Dulen

  • The Prism Approach to Mapping Precipitation and Temperature

    Christopher Daly;George Taylor

  • Mapping the climate of Puerto Rico, Vieques and Culebra

    Christopher Daly;E. H. Helmer;Maya Quiñones

  • High-quality spatial climate data sets for the United States and beyond

    C. Daly;G. H. Taylor;W. P. Gibson;T. W. Parzybok

  • Constructing Retrospective Gridded Daily Precipitation and Temperature Datasets for the Conterminous United States

    Mauro Di Luzio;Gregory L. Johnson;Christopher Daly;Jon K. Eischeid

  • Local atmospheric decoupling in complex topography alters climate change impacts

    Christopher Daly;David R. Conklin;Michael H. Unsworth

  • An assessment of differences in gridded precipitation datasets in complex terrain

    Brian Henn;Brian Henn;Andrew J. Newman;Ben Livneh;Ben Livneh;Christopher Daly

  • REGIONAL REGRESSION MODELS OF ANNUAL STREAMFLOW FOR THE UNITED STATES

    Richard M. Vogel;Ian Wilson;Chris Daly

  • Mapping “At Risk” Snow in the Pacific Northwest

    Anne W. Nolin;Christopher Daly

  • A Review of Animal Models of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: Pathophysiology, Regeneration, and Translation to the Clinic

    Chris Daly;Peter Ghosh;Graham Jenkin;David Oehme

  • DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF TREE–GRASS INTERACTIONS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES

    Christopher Daly;Dominique Bachelet;James M. Lenihan;Ronald P. Neilson

  • Mapping Atmospheric Moisture Climatologies across the Conterminous United States.

    Christopher Daly;Joseph I. Smith;Keith V. Olson

  • Climate Divisions for Alaska Based on Objective Methods

    Peter A. Bieniek;Uma S. Bhatt;Richard L. Thoman;Heather Angeloff

  • Development of a New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map for the United States

    Christopher Daly;Mark P. Widrlechner;Michael D. Halbleib;Joseph I. Smith

  • High-resolution spatial modeling of daily weather elements for a catchment in the Oregon Cascade Mountains, United States

    Christopher Daly;Jonathan W. Smith;Joseph I. Smith;Robert B. McKane

  • The impact of climate change on California’s ecosystem services

    M. Rebecca Shaw;Linwood Pendleton;D. Richard Cameron;Belinda Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Nan Rosenbloom
Nan Rosenbloom National Center for Atmospheric Research
Timothy G. F. Kittel
Timothy G. F. Kittel University of Colorado Boulder
David S. Schimel
David S. Schimel Jet Propulsion Lab
Thomas H. Painter
Thomas H. Painter University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Ghosh
Peter Ghosh Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Dominique Bachelet
Dominique Bachelet Oregon State University
David Yates
David Yates National Center for Atmospheric Research
Toni Lyn Morelli
Toni Lyn Morelli United States Geological Survey
Jessica D. Lundquist
Jessica D. Lundquist University of Washington
Michael H. Unsworth
Michael H. Unsworth Oregon State University

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