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Noah S. Diffenbaugh

Noah S. Diffenbaugh

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
72
Citations
24758
World Ranking
1472
National Ranking
625

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Noah S. Diffenbaugh is a researcher affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their work spans key domains within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on topics related to climate variability, atmospheric phenomena, and ecological impacts of climate change.

The scientist's research primarily engages with the following main fields of study:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, prominent subfields include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Ecology

Their main research topics encompass:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Noah S. Diffenbaugh has contributed to numerous publications, particularly in well-established scientific journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Earth's Future
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Noah S. Diffenbaugh include:

  • Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Contribution of historical precipitation change to US flood damages, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Attributing Extreme Events to Climate Change: A New Frontier in a Warming World, 2020, One Earth
  • Data-driven predictions of the time remaining until critical global warming thresholds are reached, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their research career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Marshall Burke
  • Elizabeth A. Barnes
  • Frances V. Davenport
  • Daniel L. Swain
  • Deepti Singh

Recognition for their scientific contributions includes the award of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Daniel L. Swain;Danielle Touma

  • Regional Climate Modeling for the Developing World: The ICTP RegCM3 and RegCNET

    Jeremy S. Pal;Filippo Giorgi;Xunqiang Bi;Nellie Elguindi

  • Global warming has increased global economic inequality.

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Marshall Burke

  • Changes in Ecologically Critical Terrestrial Climate Conditions

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Christopher B. Field

  • Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climate events

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Deepti Singh;Deepti Singh;Justin S. Mankin;Daniel E. Horton;Daniel E. Horton

  • Contribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to extreme temperature trends

    Daniel E. Horton;Nathaniel C. Johnson;Nathaniel C. Johnson;Nathaniel C. Johnson;Deepti Singh;Daniel L. Swain

  • Climate change hotspots in the CMIP5 global climate model ensemble

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Filippo Giorgi

  • Fine-scale processes regulate the response of extreme events to global climate change.

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Jeremy S. Pal;Robert J. Trapp;Filippo Giorgi

  • Heat stress intensification in the Mediterranean climate change hotspot

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Jeremy S. Pal;Jeremy S. Pal;Filippo Giorgi;Xuejie Gao

  • Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

    Michael Goss;Daniel L Swain;Daniel L Swain;Daniel L Swain;John T Abatzoglou;John T Abatzoglou;Ali Sarhadi

  • 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

  • Observed changes in extreme wet and dry spells during the South Asian summer monsoon season

    Deepti Singh;Michael Tsiang;Bala Rajaratnam;Noah S. Diffenbaugh

  • Changes in severe thunderstorm environment frequency during the 21st century caused by anthropogenically enhanced global radiative forcing

    Robert J. Trapp;Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Harold E. Brooks;Michael E. Baldwin

  • Protecting climate with forests

    Robert B. Jackson;James T. Randerson;Josep G. Canadell;Ray G. Anderson

  • Extreme heat reduces and shifts United States premium wine production in the 21st century

    M. A. White;N. S. Diffenbaugh;G. V. Jones;J. S. Pal

  • Robust increases in severe thunderstorm environments in response to greenhouse forcing

    Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Martin Scherer;Robert J. Trapp

  • A multi-model and multi-index evaluation of drought characteristics in the 21st century

    Danielle Touma;Danielle Touma;Moetasim Ashfaq;Munir A. Nayak;Shih-Chieh Kao

  • Higher Hydroclimatic Intensity with Global Warming

    F. Giorgi;Eun Soon Im;Erika Coppola;N.S. Diffenbaugh

  • Climate volatility deepens poverty vulnerability in developing countries

    Syud A Ahmed;Noah S Diffenbaugh;Thomas W Hertel;Thomas W Hertel

  • Future climate change and upwelling in the California Current

    Mark A. Snyder;Lisa C. Sloan;Noah S. Diffenbaugh;Jason L. Bell

  • Biophysical considerations in forestry for climate protection

    Ray G Anderson;Josep G Canadell;James T Randerson;Robert B Jackson

Frequent Co-Authors

Moetasim Ashfaq
Moetasim Ashfaq Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Thomas W. Hertel
Thomas W. Hertel Purdue University West Lafayette
Jeremy S. Pal
Jeremy S. Pal Loyola Marymount University
Justin S. Mankin
Justin S. Mankin Dartmouth College
Filippo Giorgi
Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Marshall Burke
Marshall Burke Stanford University
Lisa C. Sloan
Lisa C. Sloan University of California, Santa Cruz
Sara A. Rauscher
Sara A. Rauscher University of Delaware
Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty University of British Columbia
Anna M. Michalak
Anna M. Michalak Stanford University

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