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Overview

Gregory J. McCabe is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey located in the United States. Their research primarily spans the domains of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular focus in Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work heavily centers on hydrology and climate-related studies, addressing topics such as Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate Variability and Models, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics. Additional areas of investigation include Tree-ring Climate Responses, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

The following papers exemplify their recent contributions:

  • Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States' largest river basin, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Tree Rings Reveal Unmatched 2nd Century Drought in the Colorado River Basin, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Going Beyond Low Flows: Streamflow Drought Deficit and Duration Illuminate Distinct Spatiotemporal Drought Patterns and Trends in the U.S. During the Last Century, 2022, Water Resources Research
  • Upper Colorado River Basin 20th century droughts under 21st century warming: Plausible scenarios for the future, 2020, Climate Services
  • Disentangling the potential effects of land-use and climate change on stream conditions, 2020, Global Change Biology

These papers have been published in various venues, including:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Earth Interactions

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • David M. Wolock
  • Connie A. Woodhouse
  • Gregory T. Pederson
  • John C. Hammond
  • Carolyn Olson

Best Publications

  • Evaluating the use of “goodness-of-fit” Measures in hydrologic and hydroclimatic model validation

    David R. Legates;Gregory J. McCabe

  • Pacific and Atlantic Ocean influences on multidecadal drought frequency in the United States

    Gregory J. McCabe;Michael A. Palecki;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

    E. M. Wolkovich;B. I. Cook;B. I. Cook;J. M. Allen;T. M. Crimmins

  • Trends in Northern Hemisphere Surface Cyclone Frequency and Intensity

    Gregory J. McCabe;Martyn P. Clark;Mark C. Serreze

  • DECADAL VARIATIONS IN THE STRENGTH OF ENSO TELECONNECTIONS WITH PRECIPITATION IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES

    Gregory J. McCabe;Michael D. Dettinger

  • Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods, and Droughts in the United States: State of Knowledge

    Thomas C. Peterson;Richard R. Heim;Robert Hirsch;Dale P. Kaiser

  • A step increase in streamflow in the conterminous United States

    Gregory J. McCabe;David M. Wolock

  • Comparison of Single and Multiple Flow Direction Algorithms for Computing Topographic Parameters in TOPMODEL

    David M. Wolock;Gregory J. McCabe

  • Rain-on-Snow Events in the Western United States

    Gregory J. McCabe;Martyn P. Clark;Lauren E. Hay

  • A Monthly Water-Balance Model Driven By a Graphical User Interface

    Gregory J. McCabe;Steven L. Markstrom

  • Assimilation of snow covered area information into hydrologic and land-surface models

    Martyn P. Clark;Andrew G. Slater;Andrew P. Barrett;Lauren E. Hay

  • Primary Modes and Predictability of Year-to-Year Snowpack Variations in the Western United States from Teleconnections with Pacific Ocean Climate

    Gregory J. McCabe;Michael D. Dettinger

  • Phylogenetic conservatism in plant phenology

    T. Jonathan Davies;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nicolas Salamin;Nicolas Salamin

  • Trends and Variability in Snowmelt Runoff in the Western United States

    Gregory J. McCabe;Martyn P. Clark

  • Simulation of precipitation by weather type analysis

    Lauren E. Hay;Gregory J. McCabe;David M. Wolock;Mark A. Ayers

  • Understanding Uncertainties in Future Colorado River Streamflow

    Julie A. Vano;Bradley Udall;Daniel R. Cayan;Jonathan T. Overpeck

  • A refined index of model performance: a rejoinder

    David R. Legates;Gregory J. McCabe

  • Independent effects of temperature and precipitation on modeled runoff in the conterminous United States

    Gregory J. McCabe;David M. Wolock

  • Differences in topographic characteristics computed from 100- and 1000-m resolution digital elevation model data

    David M. Wolock;Gregory J. McCabe

  • Historical effects of El Nino and La Nina events on the seasonal evolution of the montane snowpack in the Columbia and Colorado River Basins

    Martyn P. Clark;Mark C. Serreze;Gregory J. McCabe

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Wolock
David M. Wolock United States Geological Survey
Lauren E. Hay
Lauren E. Hay United States Geological Survey
Connie A. Woodhouse
Connie A. Woodhouse University of Arizona
Julio L. Betancourt
Julio L. Betancourt United States Geological Survey
Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Michael D. Dettinger
Michael D. Dettinger Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Mark D. Schwartz
Mark D. Schwartz University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Daniel R. Cayan
Daniel R. Cayan University of California, San Diego
David R. Legates
David R. Legates University of Delaware

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