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102
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330
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148

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Richard Seager is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and planetary sciences as well as environmental science, with a strong emphasis on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and oceanography.

Their work is concentrated in several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Sociology and Political Science

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Seager has contributed extensively to peer-reviewed publications, with a notable presence in the Journal of Climate, publishing 21 papers there. Other frequent publication venues include the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters, and npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.

The following recent papers represent some of their latest scholarly contributions:

  • Persistent Discrepancies between Observed and Modeled Trends in the Tropical Pacific Ocean, 2022, Journal of Climate
  • Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories, 2022, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Violent conflict exacerbated drought-related food insecurity between 2009 and 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa, 2021, Nature Food
  • Observed humidity trends in dry regions contradict climate models, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include Mingfang Ting, Jason E. Smerdon, Park Williams, Benjamin I. Cook, and Mark A. Cane. These coauthors appear over multiple joint publications, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Seager was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Isaac Held;Isaac Held;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

    A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Daniel Griffin

  • Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought.

    Colin P. Kelley;Shahrzad Mohtadi;Mark A. Cane;Richard Seager

  • Global warming and 21st century drying

    Benjamin I. Cook;Jason E. Smerdon;Richard Seager;Sloan John Coats

  • North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Mark A. Cane;David W. Stahle

  • Thermodynamic and Dynamic Mechanisms for Large-Scale Changes in the Hydrological Cycle in Response to Global Warming*

    Richard Seager;Naomi H. Naik;Gabriel A. Vecchi

  • An Ocean Dynamical Thermostat

    Amy C. Clement;Richard Seager;Mark A. Cane;Stephen E. Zebiak

  • Twentieth-century sea surface temperature trends

    Mark A. Cane;Amy C. Clement;Alexey Kaplan;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

  • Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014

    A. Park Williams;Richard Seager;John T. Abatzoglou;Benjamin I. Cook;Benjamin I. Cook

  • Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic*

    Mingfang Ting;Yochanan Kushnir;Richard Seager;Cuihua Li

  • Greenhouse warming and the 21st century hydroclimate of southwestern North America.

    Richard Seager;Gabriel Andres Vecchi

  • Orbital controls on the El Niño/Southern Oscillation and the tropical climate

    A. C. Clement;A. C. Clement;R. Seager;M. A. Cane

  • Megadroughts in North America: placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long-term palaeoclimate context

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Richard R. Heim;Russell S. Vose

  • Suppression of El Niño during the Mid‐Holocene by changes in the Earth's orbit

    Amy C. Clement;Richard Seager;Mark A. Cane

  • Causes and Predictability of the 2012 Great Plains Drought

    Martin P. Hoerling;J. Eischeid;Arun Kumar;R. Leung

  • Strengthening tropical Pacific zonal sea surface temperature gradient consistent with rising greenhouse gases

    Richard Seager;Mark A. Cane;Naomi L. Henderson;Dong Eun Lee

  • Mechanisms of Hemispherically Symmetric Climate Variability

    Richard Seager;Nili Harnik;Yochanan Kushnir;Walter A. Robinson

  • Modeling of Tropical Forcing of Persistent Droughts and Pluvials over Western North America: 1856–2000*

    Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Celine Herweijer;Naomi H. Naik

  • Amplification of the North American “Dust Bowl” drought through human-induced land degradation

    Benjamin I. Cook;Ronald L. Miller;Richard Seager

  • Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Isaac Held;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2015

    P. Williams;R. Seager;J. T. Abatzoglou;B. Cook

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Mark A. Cane
Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Yochanan Kushnir
Yochanan Kushnir Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jason E. Smerdon
Jason E. Smerdon Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mingfang Ting
Mingfang Ting Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Naomi Naik
Naomi Naik Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
A. Park Williams
A. Park Williams Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Amy C. Clement
Amy C. Clement University of Miami
Justin S. Mankin
Justin S. Mankin Dartmouth College

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