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58
Citations
20476
World Ranking
2507
National Ranking
884

Overview

Katharine Hayhoe is affiliated with Texas Tech University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant number of publications in these fields. Within these domains, they have made contributions to the study of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, as well as ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Hayhoe's work addresses several key topics such as climate variability and models, climate change and permafrost, meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate change and health impacts, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, and the impacts of climate change on agriculture.

They have published multiple papers in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • BMJ
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Global Environmental Change
  • Mineral Economics
  • Road Materials and Pavement Design

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hayhoe include:

  • Hot dry days increase perceived experience with global warming (2021), Global Environmental Change
  • From emissions to resources: mitigating the critical raw material supply chain vulnerability of renewable energy technologies (2024), Mineral Economics
  • Climate change impacts on flexible pavement design and rehabilitation practices (2021), Road Materials and Pavement Design
  • Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism (2024), npj Climate Action
  • Mitigating near-term climate change (2023), Environmental Research Letters

Hayhoe frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Their prominent coauthors include Jennifer M. Jacobs, Donald J. Wuebbles, Rao Kotamarthi, Jennifer Jurado, and Linda O. Mearns.

In addition to journal articles, Hayhoe has contributed to academic book publications, including a book titled Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections (2021), published by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Going to the extremes : An intercomparison of model-simulated historical and future changes in extreme events

    Claudia Tebaldi;Katharinec Hayhoe;Katharinec Hayhoe;Julie M. Arblaster;Julie M. Arblaster;Gerald A. Meehl

  • Going to the Extremes

    Claudia Tebaldi;Katharinec Hayhoe;Katharinec Hayhoe;Julie M. Arblaster;Julie M. Arblaster;Gerald A. Meehl

  • Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California

    Katharine Hayhoe;Daniel Cayan;Christopher B. Field;Peter C. Frumhoff

  • Atmospheric methane and global change

    Donald J Wuebbles;Katharine Hayhoe

  • Global pyrogeography: the current and future distribution of wildfire.

    Meg A. Krawchuk;Max A. Moritz;Marc-André Parisien;Marc-André Parisien;Jeff Van Dorn

  • Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the US Northeast

    Katharine Hayhoe;Cameron P Wake;Thomas G Huntington;Lifeng Luo

  • Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

    Max A. Moritz;Marc-André Parisien;Enric Batllori;Meg A. Krawchuk

  • Climate change scenarios for the California region

    Daniel R. Cayan;Daniel R. Cayan;Edwin P. Maurer;Michael D. Dettinger;Michael D. Dettinger;Mary Tyree

  • Tropical Forests and Climate Policy

    Raymond E. Gullison;Peter C. Frumhoff;Josep G. Canadell;Christopher B. Field

  • Climate change and the future of California's endemic flora.

    Scott R. Loarie;Benjamin E. Carter;Benjamin E. Carter;Katharine Hayhoe;Sean McMahon

  • Ch. 2: Our Changing Climate. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment

    J. Walsh;D. Wuebbles;K. Hayhoe;J. Kossin

  • Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

    Donald J. Wuebbles;David W. Fahey;Kathy A. Hibbard;Jeff R. Arnold

  • Regional Climate Change Projections for Chicago and the US Great Lakes

    Katharine Hayhoe;Jeff VanDorn;Thomas Croley;Nicole Schlegal

  • Regional climate change projections for the Northeast USA

    Katharine Hayhoe;Cameron P Wake;Bruce T. Anderson;Xin-Zhong Liang

  • CMIP5 climate model analyses: Climate extremes in the United States

    Donald Wuebbles;Gerald Meehl;Katharine Hayhoe;Thomas R. Karl

  • Confronting climate change in the Great Lakes region : impacts on our communities and ecosystems

    George W. Kling;Katharine Hayhoe;Lucinda B. Johnson;Donald J. Magnuson

  • Climate change projections of sea level extremes along the California coast

    Daniel R. Cayan;Daniel R. Cayan;Peter D. Bromirski;Katharine Hayhoe;Mary Tyree

  • Climate, Extreme Heat, and Electricity Demand in California

    Norman L. Miller;Katharine Hayhoe;Jiming Jin;Maximilian Auffhammer

  • Role of winter temperature and climate change on the survival and future range expansion of the hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) in eastern North America

    Annie Paradis;Joe Elkinton;Katharine Hayhoe;John Buonaccorsi

  • Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Natural Sources

    Brian Anderson;Karen B Bartlett;Steve Frolking;Katharine Hayhoe

  • An intercomparison of model-simulated historical and future changes in extreme events

    Claudia Tebaldi;Katharine Hayhoe;Julie M. Arblaster;Gerald A. Meehl

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald J. Wuebbles
Donald J. Wuebbles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer M. Jacobs
Jennifer M. Jacobs University of New Hampshire
Charles T. Driscoll
Charles T. Driscoll Syracuse University
Kenneth E. Kunkel
Kenneth E. Kunkel North Carolina State University
David R. Easterling
David R. Easterling National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Linda O. Mearns
Linda O. Mearns National Center for Atmospheric Research
Daniel R. Cayan
Daniel R. Cayan University of California, San Diego
Xin-Zhong Liang
Xin-Zhong Liang University of Maryland, College Park
Michael D. Dettinger
Michael D. Dettinger Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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