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1980

Overview

Raymond W. Arritt was affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily contributed to the field of Environmental Science, with particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work covered several interconnected topics including Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Among their recent publications were:

  • The Ongoing Need for High-Resolution Regional Climate Models: Process Understanding and Stakeholder Information (2020) in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Analysis of alternative climate datasets and evapotranspiration methods for the Upper Mississippi River Basin using SWAT within HAWQS (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment

Throughout their career, Arritt collaborated with several frequent co-authors including:

  • William J. Gutowski
  • Paul Ullrich
  • Alex Hall
  • L. Ruby Leung
  • Travis O'Brien

The publication venues where their research appeared repeatedly were:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Regional climate projections

    J. H. Christensen;B. Hewitson;A. Busuioc;A. Chen

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

    F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

  • The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I Results

    Linda O. Mearns;Ray Arritt;Sébastien Biner;Melissa S. Bukovsky

  • Wind speed trends over the contiguous United States

    S. C. Pryor;R. J. Barthelmie;D. T. Young;Eugene S. Takle

  • Hydrological responses to dynamically and statistically downscaled climate model output

    Robert L. Wilby;Robert L. Wilby;Lauren E. Hay;William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt

  • Nonclassical mesoscale circulations caused by surface sensible heat-flux gradients

    M. Segal;R. W. Arritt

  • Effects of the Large-Scale Flow on Characteristic Features of the Sea Breeze

    Raymond W. Arritt

  • Altered hydrologic feedback in a warming climate introduces a “warming hole”

    Zaitao Pan;Raymond W. Arritt;Eugene S. Takle;William J. Gutowski

  • The July 1995 Heat Wave in the Midwest: A Climatic Perspective and Critical Weather Factors

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Stanley A. Changnon;Beth C. Reinke;Raymond W. Arritt

  • Use of Regional Climate Model Output for Hydrologic Simulations

    Lauren E. Hay;Martyn P. Clark;Robert L. Wilby;William J. Gutowski Jr.

  • Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS): Description and initial results

    Eugene S. Takle;William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt;Zaitao Pan

  • A Climatology of the Warm Season Great Plains Low-Level Jet Using Wind Profiler Observations

    Mark J. Mitchell;Raymond W. Arritt;Ken Labas

  • Climate change projections of the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP)

    L. O. Mearns;Steve Sain;Lai-Yung R. Leung;M. S. Bukovsky

  • The Ongoing Need for High-Resolution Regional Climate Models: Process Understanding and Stakeholder Information

    W. J. Gutowski;P. A. Ullrich;A. Hall;L. R. Leung

  • Mesoscale Convective Complexes and Persistent Elongated Convective Systems over the United States during 1992 and 1993

    Christopher J. Anderson;Raymond W. Arritt

  • The Great Plains Low-Level Jet during the Warm Season of 1993

    Raymond W. Arritt;Thomas D. Rink;Moti Segal;Dennis P. Todey

  • Evaluation of uncertainties in regional climate change simulations

    Z. Pan;J. H. Christensen;R. W. Arritt;W. J. Gutowski

  • Towards operational predictions of the near-term climate

    Yochanan Kushnir;Adam A. Scaife;Adam A. Scaife;Raymond Arritt;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • Simulations of Present and Future Climates in the Western United States with Four Nested Regional Climate Models

    Phil Duffy;R. Arritt;J. Coquard;William Gutowski

  • Temporal–Spatial Scales of Observed and Simulated Precipitation in Central U.S. Climate

    William J. Gutowski;Steven G. Decker;Rodney A. Donavon;Zaitao Pan

  • Scaling Evaluation of the Effect of Surface Characteristics on Potential for Deep Convection over Uniform Terrain

    M. Segal;R. W. Arritt;C. Clark;R. Rabin

  • Reply to “Comments on ‘The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I Results'”

    Linda O. Mearns;Melissa S. Bukovsky;Ruby Leung;Yun Qian

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Gutowski
William J. Gutowski Iowa State University
Eugene S. Takle
Eugene S. Takle Iowa State University
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Linda O. Mearns
Linda O. Mearns National Center for Atmospheric Research
John O. Roads
John O. Roads University of California, San Diego
René Laprise
René Laprise University of Quebec at Montreal
Daniel Caya
Daniel Caya University of Quebec at Montreal
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen University of Copenhagen
Catherine L. Kling
Catherine L. Kling Cornell University
Mark E. Westgate
Mark E. Westgate Iowa State University

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