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Michael Notaro is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans various fields related to environmental and earth sciences, with a focus on climate variability, hydrology, and atmospheric phenomena.

The main fields of study for Michael Notaro include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, their work focuses on several subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The primary topics addressed in their research incorporate:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Their recent publications cover a range of these topics and include:

  • Cold Season Performance of the NU-WRF Regional Climate Model in the Great Lakes Region, 2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Large lakes in climate models: A Great Lakes case study on the usability of CMIP5, 2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Quantifying the drivers and predictability of seasonal changes in African fire, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Disproving the Bodélé Depression as the Primary Source of Dust Fertilizing the Amazon Rainforest, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Future winters present a complex energetic landscape of decreased costs and reduced risk for a freeze-tolerant amphibian, the Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus), 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Michael Notaro include:

  • Yan Yu
  • Jiafu Mao
  • Laura Briley
  • Richard B. Rood
  • Yafang Zhong

The scholar has published multiple works in the following venues:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Nature Communications
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Assessing Global Vegetation–Climate Feedbacks from Observations*

    Zhengyu Liu;M. Notaro;J. Kutzbach;Naizhuang Liu

  • Climatology of summer Shamal wind in the Middle East

    Yan Yu;Michael Notaro;Olga V. Kalashnikova;Michael J. Garay

  • Trajectory analysis of Saudi Arabian dust storms

    Michael Notaro;Fahad Alkolibi;Eyad Fadda;Fawzieh Bakhrjy

  • Regime shift in Arabian dust activity, triggered by persistent Fertile Crescent drought

    Michael Notaro;Yan Yu;Olga V. Kalashnikova

  • Simulating the transient evolution and abrupt change of Northern Africa atmosphere–ocean–terrestrial ecosystem in the Holocene ☆

    Z Liu;Yi Wang;R Gallimore;F Gasse

  • On the cause of abrupt vegetation collapse in North Africa during the Holocene: Climate variability vs. vegetation feedback

    Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Yi Wang;Robert Gallimore;Michael Notaro

  • Observed Vegetation–Climate Feedbacks in the United States*

    M. Notaro;Z. Liu;J. W. Williams

  • Widespread drought episodes in the western Great Lakes region during the past 2000 years: Geographic extent and potential mechanisms

    Robert K. Booth;Michael Notaro;Stephen T. Jackson;John E. Kutzbach

  • Influence of the Laurentian Great Lakes on Regional Climate

    Michael Notaro;Kathleen Holman;Azar Zarrin;Elody Fluck

  • Twenty-First-Century Projections of Snowfall and Winter Severity across Central-Eastern North America*,+

    Michael Notaro;David Lorenz;Christopher Hoving;Michael Schummer

  • Climatic controls on the interannual to decadal variability in Saudi Arabian dust activity: Toward the development of a seasonal dust prediction model

    Yan Yu;Michael Notaro;Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Fuyao Wang

  • Global Vegetation and Climate Change due to Future Increases in CO2 as Projected by a Fully Coupled Model with Dynamic Vegetation

    Michael Notaro;Steve Vavrus;Zhengyu Liu

  • Recent accelerated warming of the Laurentian Great Lakes: Physical drivers

    Yafang Zhong;Michael Notaro;Stephen J. Vavrus;Michael J. Foster

  • Complex seasonal cycle of ecohydrology in the Southwest United States

    Michael Notaro;Zhengyu Liu;Robert G. Gallimore;John W. Williams

  • Projected vegetation changes for the American Southwest: combined dynamic modeling and bioclimatic-envelope approach.

    Michael Notaro;Adrien Mauss;John W. Williams

  • Dynamically Downscaled Projections of Lake-Effect Snow in the Great Lakes Basin*,+

    Michael Notaro;Val Bennington;Steve Vavrus

  • Model and Observational Analysis of the Northeast U.S. Regional Climate and Its Relationship to the PNA and NAO Patterns during Early Winter

    M. Notaro;W.-C. Wang;W. Gong

  • Climate change surpasses land-use change in the contracting range boundary of a winter-adapted mammal.

    Sean M. Sultaire;Jonathan N. Pauli;Karl J. Martin;Michael W. Meyer

  • Disproportionate magnitude of climate change in United States national parks

    Patrick Gonzalez;Patrick Gonzalez;Fuyao Wang;Michael Notaro;Daniel J Vimont

  • Identification and Characterization of Dust Source Regions Across North Africa and the Middle East Using MISR Satellite Observations

    Yan Yu;Yan Yu;Olga V. Kalashnikova;Michael J. Garay;Huikyo Lee

  • Simulation of Heavy Lake-Effect Snowstorms across the Great Lakes Basin by RegCM4: Synoptic Climatology and Variability*,+

    Michael Notaro;Azar Zarrin;Steve Vavrus;Val Bennington

  • Assessing temporal and spatial variations in atmospheric dust over Saudi Arabia through satellite, radiometric, and station data

    Yan Yu;Michael Notaro;Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Olga Kalashnikova

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhengyu Liu
Zhengyu Liu The Ohio State University
John W. Williams
John W. Williams University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jiafu Mao
Jiafu Mao Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Xiaoying Shi
Xiaoying Shi Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John E. Kutzbach
John E. Kutzbach University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jonathan N. Pauli
Jonathan N. Pauli University of Wisconsin–Madison
Forrest M. Hoffman
Forrest M. Hoffman Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Benjamin Zuckerberg
Benjamin Zuckerberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Samuel Levis
Samuel Levis National Center for Atmospheric Research
David S. Gutzler
David S. Gutzler University of New Mexico

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