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Overview

David W. Pierce is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on specific subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

The main topics covered by their work include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Cryospheric studies and observations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

David W. Pierce has contributed to several recent scientific papers. Notable publications include:

  • Future Increases in North American Extreme Precipitation in CMIP6 Downscaled with LOCA, 2023, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • An extreme-preserving long-term gridded daily precipitation data set for the conterminous United States, 2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology

Their frequent co-authors are Daniel R. Cayan, Mark D. Risser, Alexander Gershunov, John T. Abatzoglou, and Daniel Feldman.

David W. Pierce often publishes in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, having three papers there. Other frequent publication venues include Climate Dynamics, Climatic Change, Science Advances, and Earth's Future.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Future dryness in the Southwest US and the hydrology of the early 21st century drought

    Daniel R. Cayan;Tapash Das;David W. Pierce;Tim P. Barnett

  • Selecting global climate models for regional climate change studies

    David W. Pierce;Tim P. Barnett;Benjamin D. Santer;Peter J. Gleckler

  • Penetration of Human-Induced Warming into the World's Oceans

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Krishna M. AchutaRao;Peter J. Gleckler

  • Detection of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the World's Oceans

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Reiner Schnur

  • Statistical Downscaling Using Localized Constructed Analogs (LOCA)

    David W. Pierce;Daniel R. Cayan;Bridget L. Thrasher

  • A spatially comprehensive, hydrometeorological data set for Mexico, the U.S., and Southern Canada 1950–2013

    Ben Livneh;Theodore J. Bohn;David W. Pierce;Francisco Munoz-Arriola

  • The key role of dry days in changing regional climate and precipitation regimes

    Suraj D. Polade;David W. Pierce;Daniel R. Cayan;Alexander Gershunov

  • Identification of human-induced changes in atmospheric moisture content

    B. D. Santer;C. Mears;F. J. Wentz;K. E. Taylor

  • 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

  • Improved Bias Correction Techniques for Hydrological Simulations of Climate Change

    David W. Pierce;Daniel R. Cayan;Edwin P. Maurer;John T. Abatzoglou

  • Precipitation in a warming world: Assessing projected hydro-climate changes in California and other Mediterranean climate regions

    Suraj D. Polade;Alexander Gershunov;Daniel R. Cayan;Michael D. Dettinger

  • When will Lake Mead go dry

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce

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

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

  • Interdecadal interactions between the tropics and midlatitudes in the Pacific basin

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Mojib Latif;Dietmar Dommenget

  • Anatomy of North Pacific Decadal Variability

    Niklas Schneider;Arthur J. Miller;David W. Pierce

  • Connections between the Pacific Ocean Tropics and Midlatitudes on Decadal Timescales

    David W. Pierce;Tim P. Barnett;Mojib Latif

  • Precipitation regime change in Western North America: The role of Atmospheric Rivers

    Alexander Gershunov;Tamara Shulgina;Rachel E. S. Clemesha;Kristen Guirguis

  • Sustainable water deliveries from the Colorado River in a changing climate

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Cayan
Daniel R. Cayan University of California, San Diego
Tim P. Barnett
Tim P. Barnett Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Michael D. Dettinger
Michael D. Dettinger Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Peter J. Gleckler
Peter J. Gleckler Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Alexander Gershunov
Alexander Gershunov University of California, San Diego
Arthur J. Miller
Arthur J. Miller University of California, San Diego
Céline Bonfils
Céline Bonfils Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Hugo G. Hidalgo
Hugo G. Hidalgo University of Costa Rica
Govindasamy Bala
Govindasamy Bala Indian Institute of Science
Benjamin D. Santer
Benjamin D. Santer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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