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David Yates is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their work focuses primarily on Environmental Science with significant contributions in related subfields including Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The researcher's publications reflect a strong emphasis on hydrology and watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, and water resources management and optimization. Other key topics covered in their research include climate variability and models, water-energy-food nexus studies, meteorological phenomena and simulations, as well as integrated energy systems optimization.

Frequent publication venues for this author include:

  • Earth's Future
  • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • Scientific Data
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Nature Communications

Some of the recent papers by David Yates include:

  • "GLOBathy, the global lakes bathymetry dataset" (2022), published in Scientific Data
  • "NOAA's National Water Model: Advancing operational hydrology through continental-scale modeling" (2024), published in JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • "Defining Robustness, Vulnerabilities, and Consequential Scenarios for Diverse Stakeholder Interests in Institutionally Complex River Basins" (2020), published in Earth's Future
  • "Evaluation of NOAA National Water Model Parameter Calibration in Semi-Arid Environments Prone to Channel Infiltration" (2021), published in Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • "Development and evaluation of the channel routing model and parameters within the National Water Model" (2023), published in JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Yates include Laura Read, K. M. Sampson, David Gochis, Julia Szinai, and Andrew D. Jones.

Best Publications

  • WEAP21 - A Demand-, Priority-, and Preference-Driven Water Planning Model Part 1: Model Characteristics

    David Yates;Jack Sieber;David Purkey;Annette Huber-Lee

  • Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America

    Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Mike Barlage

  • High resolution coupled climate-runoff simulations of seasonal snowfall over Colorado: A process study of current and warmer climate

    Roy Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;David Gochis

  • A technique for generating regional climate scenarios using a nearest‐neighbor algorithm

    David Yates;David Yates;Subhrendu Gangopadhyay;Balaji Rajagopalan;Kenneth Strzepek

  • Water resources for agriculture in a changing climate: international case studies

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Kenneth M. Strzepek;David C. Major;Ana Iglesias

  • Climate Change Impacts on the Water Balance of the Colorado Headwaters: High-Resolution Regional Climate Model Simulations

    Roy Rasmussen;Kyoko Ikeda;Changhai Liu;David Gochis

  • WEAP21 -a demand-, priority-, and preference-driven water planning model Part 2 : Aiding freshwater ecosystem service evaluation

    David Yates;David Purkey;Jack Sieber;Annette Huber-Lee

  • Fully coupled atmosphere-hydrology simulations for the central Mediterranean: Impact of enhanced hydrological parameterization for short and long time scales

    Alfonso Senatore;Giuseppe Mendicino;David J. Gochis;Wei Yu

  • Simulation of seasonal snowfall over Colorado

    Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;David Gochis

  • MODELING THE NILE BASIN UNDER CLIMATIC CHANGE

    David N. Yates;Kenneth M. Strzepek

  • WatBal: an integrated water balance model for climate impact assessment of river basin runoff

    David N. Yates

  • Modeling hydrologic and water quality extremes in a changing climate: A statistical approach based on extreme value theory

    Erin Towler;Erin Towler;Balaji Rajagopalan;Balaji Rajagopalan;Eric Gilleland;R. Scott Summers

  • Robust analysis of future climate change impacts on water for agriculture and other sectors: a case study in the Sacramento Valley

    D. R. Purkey;B. Joyce;S. Vicuna;M. W. Hanemann

  • Developing and applying uncertain global climate change projections for regional water management planning

    David G. Groves;David Yates;Claudia Tebaldi

  • AN ASSESSMENT OF INTEGRATED CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY OF EGYPT

    David N. Yates;Kenneth M. Strzepek

  • GLOBathy, the global lakes bathymetry dataset

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  • Modeling the hydrology of climate change in California's Sierra Nevada for subwatershed scale adaptation.

    Charles A. Young;Marisa I. Escobar‐Arias;Martha Fernandes;Brian Joyce

  • Non-Aqueous-Phase Fluids in Heterogeneous Aquifers—Experimental Study

    Tissa H. Illangasekare;Edward J. Armbruster;David N. Yates

  • Climate warming, water storage, and Chinook salmon in California’s Sacramento Valley

    David Yates;Hector Galbraith;D. Purkey;A. Huber-Lee

  • Water Management Adaptations to Prevent Loss of Spring-Run Chinook Salmon in California under Climate Change

    Lisa C. Thompson;Marisa I. Escobar;Christopher M. Mosser;David R. Purkey

  • Comparing the correlative Holdridge model to mechanistic biogeographical models for assessing vegetation distribution response to climatic change.

    David N. Yates;Timothy G. F. Kittel;Regina Figge Cannon

Frequent Co-Authors

Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
David Gochis
David Gochis National Center for Atmospheric Research
Balaji Rajagopalan
Balaji Rajagopalan University of Colorado Boulder
Kyoko Ikeda
Kyoko Ikeda National Center for Atmospheric Research
Robert G. Grossman
Robert G. Grossman Houston Methodist
Timothy G. F. Kittel
Timothy G. F. Kittel University of Colorado Boulder
Christopher Daly
Christopher Daly Oregon State University
Roy Rasmussen
Roy Rasmussen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Nan Rosenbloom
Nan Rosenbloom National Center for Atmospheric Research

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