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Overview

Jay H. Lawrimore is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research spans various areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. The primary focus includes subfields such as Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers topics including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

Jay H. Lawrimore has contributed publications to several respected scientific venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology

Recent papers authored by Jay H. Lawrimore include:

  • Implementing Full Spatial Coverage in NOAA's Global Temperature Analysis, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Quality Control and Processing of Cooperative Observer Program Hourly Precipitation Data, 2020, Journal of Hydrometeorology

Their frequent collaborators are:

  • Matthew J. Menne
  • Russell S. Vose
  • Boyin Huang
  • X. Yin
  • Derek S. Arndt

Lawrimore's work primarily investigates climate and atmospheric conditions using observational data and modeling techniques. This includes the analysis of precipitation data quality control and the enhancement of temperature dataset coverage at a global scale.

Best Publications

  • Improvements to NOAA’s Historical Merged Land–Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis (1880–2006)

    Thomas M. Smith;Richard W. Reynolds;Thomas C. Peterson;Jay Lawrimore

  • Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons

    Boyin Huang;Peter W. Thorne;Viva F. Banzon;Tim Boyer

  • Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4). Part I: Upgrades and Intercomparisons

    Boyin Huang;Viva F. Banzon;Eric Freeman;Jay Lawrimore

  • Contemporary Changes of the Hydrological Cycle over the Contiguous United States: Trends Derived from In Situ Observations

    Pavel Ya Groisman;Richard W. Knight;Thomas R. Karl;David R. Easterling

  • Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus

    Thomas R. Karl;Anthony Arguez;Boyin Huang;Jay H. Lawrimore

  • An overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network monthly mean temperature data set, version 3

    Jay H. Lawrimore;Matthew J. Menne;Byron E. Gleason;Claude N. Williams

  • Climate Assessment for 1999

    Gerald D. Bell;Michael S. Halpert;Russell C. Schnell;R. Wayne Higgins

  • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James Kossin

  • U.S. Climate Reference Network after One Decade of Operations: Status and Assessment

    Howard J. Diamond;Thomas R. Karl;Michael A. Palecki;C. Bruce Baker

  • ICOADS Release 3.0: a major update to the historical marine climate record

    Eric Freeman;Scott D. Woodruff;Scott D. Woodruff;Steven J. Worley;Sandra J. Lubker

  • Changes in extreme events and the potential impacts on human health.

    Jesse E. Bell;Claudia Langford Brown;Kathryn Conlon;Stephanie Herring

  • U.S. Climate Reference Network Soil Moisture and Temperature Observations

    Jesse E. Bell;Michael A. Palecki;C. Bruce Baker;William G. Collins

  • Evaporation changes over the contiguous United States and the former USSR: A reassessment

    Valentin S. Golubev;Jay H. Lawrimore;Pavel Ya. Groisman;Pavel Ya. Groisman;Nina A. Speranskaya

  • NOAA's Merged Land-Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis

    Russell S. Vose;Derek Arndt;Viva F. Banzon;David R. Easterling

  • The Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly Temperature Dataset, Version 4

    Matthew J. Menne;Claude N. Williams;Byron E. Gleason;J. Jared Rennie

  • Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4): Part II. Parametric and Structural Uncertainty Estimations

    Wei Liu;Boyin Huang;Peter W. Thorne;Viva F. Banzon

  • Pan Evaporation Trends in Dry and Humid Regions of the United States

    Jay H. Lawrimore;Thomas C. Peterson

  • Further exploring and quantifying uncertainties for Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) version 4 (v4).

    Boyin Huang;Peter W. Thorne;Thomas M. Smith;Wei Liu

  • Global rural temperature trends

    Thomas C. Peterson;Kevin P. Gallo;Jay Lawrimore;Timothy W. Owen

  • Projections of Future Drought in the Continental United States and Mexico

    Michael Wehner;David R. Easterling;Jay H. Lawrimore;Richard R. Heim

  • Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4), Part I. Upgrades and Intercomparisons

    B. Huang;E. Freeman;J. H. Lawrimore;W. Liu

  • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James P. Kossin

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Thorne
Peter Thorne National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Thomas C. Peterson
Thomas C. Peterson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Russell S. Vose
Russell S. Vose National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Claude N. Williams
Claude N. Williams National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas R. Karl
Thomas R. Karl National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas M. Smith
Thomas M. Smith National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
David R. Easterling
David R. Easterling National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
David A. Robinson
David A. Robinson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kenneth E. Kunkel
Kenneth E. Kunkel North Carolina State University
Wei Liu
Wei Liu University of California, Riverside

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