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Dr. Richard Seager
Named Lamont Research Professor
LDEO-Ocean and Climate Physics

Earth Institute Affiliate:
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)

work: 845-365-8743
fax: 845-365-8736
e-mail1: seager@ldeo.columbia.edu
e-mail2: rs229@columbia.edu
web: http://rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu/
Address:
106 Oceanography
61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000
Palisades, NY 10964
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User ID: 761
Last Modified: 08-29-2011
Projects:
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Modeling a Millennium of Drought and Flood in the American West
Dr. Richard Seager
Earth Institute Contact: Dr. Richard Seager
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
Locations: North America, United States of America

CICAR: Understanding Climate Change from the Medieval Warm Period to the Greenhouse Future
Dr. Richard Seager
Earth Institute Contact: Dr. Richard Seager
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
Locations: Africa, Asia, North America

Modeling the Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean System
Dr. Richard Seager
Earth Institute Contact: Dr. Richard Seager
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
Locations: Pacific Ocean

CICAR - CORC ARCHES: Mechanisms of Abrupt Climate Change
Prof. Mark Cane
Earth Institute Contact: Prof. Mark Cane
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
Locations: Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean
Publications:
- "GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,"by Seager, R. , with Robert Burgman, Amy Clement, Celine Herweijer, VOL. 37, L06705, 6 PP, 19 March, 2010[Abstract]
- "Adjustment of the atmospheric circulation to tropical Pacific SST anomalies: Variability of transient eddy propagation in the Pacific–North America sector,"by Seager, R. , with Cane, M. A., Harnik, N. , Kushnir, Y. , 136: 277–296, January 2010[Abstract]
- "Atmospheric circulation anomalies during two persistent north american droughts: 1932–1939 and 1948–1957,"by Seager, R. , with Benjamin I. Cook, Ron L. Miller, Climate Dynamics, Online First™, 9 May, 2010[Abstract]
- "Amplification of the North American “Dust Bowl” drought through human-induced land degradation,"by Seager, R. , with Benjamin I. Cook, Ron L. Miller, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (13): 4997-5001, March 16, 2009[Abstract]
- "A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results,"by Seager, R. , with SIEGFRIED SCHUBERT,DAVID GUTZLER,HAILAN WANG, Journal of Climate, 22(19): 5251–5272, 1 October, 2009[Abstract]
- "Mexican drought: an observational modeling and tree ring study of variability and climate change,"by Seager, R. , with Cane, M. A., Naik, N. H., Ting, M. , M.Davis, D.W.Stahle, , Atmósfera, 22(1):1-31, January 1, 2009
- "Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic,"by Seager, R. , with Kushnir, Y. , Li, C. , Ting, M. , Journal of Climate, 22(6):1469–1481, March 2009[Abstract]
- "Megadroughts in North America: placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long-term palaeoclimate context,"by Seager, R. , with Cook, E. R., RICHARD R. HEIM JR, RUSSELL S. VOSE,, JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE, 25(1):48–61, January 2010[Abstract]
- "Role of tropical Pacific SSTs in global medieval hydroclimate: A modeling study,"by Seager, R. , with Robert Burgman, Amy Clement, Celine Herweijer, Geophys. Res. Lett, 37(L06705): doi:10.1029/2009GL042239, March 19, 2010
- "The role of linear wave refraction in the transient eddy-mean flow response to tropical Pacific SST anomalies,"by Seager, R. , with Cane, M. A., Harnik, N. , Ting, M. , QuarterlyJournal of the Royal Meteorological Society, revised April 2010, submitted., 2010
- "Greenhouse warming and the 21st Century hydroclimate of southwestern North America,"by Seager, R. , with G.A. Vecchi, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press, 2010[Abstract]
- "Thermodynamic and dynamic mechanisms for large-scale changes in the hydrological cycle in response to global warming.,"by Seager, R. , with Naik, N. H., G. Vecchi, Journal of Climate, 2010[Abstract]
- "Tropical oceanic causes of interannual to multidecadal precipitation variability in southeast South America over the past century,"by Seager, R. , with Baethgen, W. , Kushnir, Y. , Naik, N. H., Robertson, A. , S. Jurburg, Jennifer Nakamura, Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3578.1, 2010[Abstract]
- "Changes in storm tracks and energy transports in a warmer climate simulated by the GFDL CM2.1 model,"by Seager, R. , with Cane, M. A., Huang, H. , Ting, M. , YuTian Wu, Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0776-4, 16 March 2010
- "A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results,"by Seager, R. , with Lyon, B. , Ting, M. , Siegfried Schubert, David Gutzler, Hailan Wang,Aiguo Dai, Tom Delworth,Clara Deser, Kirsten Findell, Rong Fu,Wayne Higgins, Martin Hoerling, Ben Kirtman, Randal Koster,Arun Kumar, David Legler, Dennis Lettenmaier, Victor Magana, Kingtse Mo, Sumant Nigam, Philip Pegion, Adam Phillips, Roger Pulwarty, David Rind, Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas, Jae Schemm, Ronald Stewart, Max Suarez,Jozef Syktus,Chunzai Wang,Scott Weaver, and Ning Zeng, Journal of Climate, 22(19) 5251–5272, October 2009
- "Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America,"by Velez Nakamura, J. , with Harnik, N. , Huang, H. , Kushnir, Y. , Naik, N. H., Seager, R. , Ting, M. , J. Lu, Lau, C.h., Li, J., Vecchi, G., Science, 316(5828): 1181-1184, May 2007
- "Mechanisms of ENSO-forcing of hemispherically symmetric precipitation variability,"by Velez Nakamura, J. , with Harnik, N. , Huang, H. , Kushnir, Y. , Seager, R. , Ting, M. , W. A. Robinson, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 131(608): 1501-1527, 2005
- "Modeling of tropical forcing of persistent droughts and pluvials over western North America,"by Velez Nakamura, J. , with Kushnir, Y. , Naik, N. H., Seager, R. , Herweijer, N, Journal of Climate, 18(19): 4065-4088, 2005


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