Daniel R. Cayan

39.9k citations
271 papers · 30.6k · 19 hit papers · h-index 82

Impact in

    • Climate variability and models
    • Fire effects on ecosystems
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
    • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
    • Cryospheric studies and observations

Papers in

    • Climate variability and models 155
    • Hydrology and Drought Analysis 35
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 23
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 57
    • Cryospheric studies and observations 35
    • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 30

Daniel R. Cayan

264 papers receiving 28.5k citations

Daniel R. Cayan's Hit Papers

Precipitation in a warming world: Assessing projected hydro-climate changes in California and other Mediterranean climate regions 2017 · 276 citations
2760+8+16Years since publication10002.0k3.0k

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Daniel R. Cayan
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  • Global and Planetary Change 21.3k
  • Atmospheric Science 14.7k
  • Water Science and Technology 6.9k
  • Oceanography 4.8k
  • Ecological Modeling 1.0k
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All Works

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Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity
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Changes toward Earlier Streamflow Timing across Western North America
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20051063
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Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States
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2008929
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Atmospheric Rivers, Floods and the Water Resources of California
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2011750
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Changes in the Onset of Spring in the Western United States
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2001738
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Trends in Snowfall versus Rainfall in the Western United States
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2006734
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Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California
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2004699
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Changes in Snowmelt Runoff Timing in Western North America under a `Business as Usual' Climate Change Scenario
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2004633
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Flooding on California's Russian River: Role of atmospheric rivers
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2006629
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Climate change impacts on U.S. Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
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2002618
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Future dryness in the southwest US and the hydrology of the early 21st century drought
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2010560
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Latent and Sensible Heat Flux Anomalies over the Northern Oceans: Driving the Sea Surface Temperature
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1992553
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ENSO and Hydrologic Extremes in the Western United States*
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1999549
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Climate-Ocean Variability and Ecosystem Response in the Northeast Pacific
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1998538
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Climate change scenarios for the California region
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2008506
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17 2003434
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20 1996381

About Daniel R. Cayan

Daniel R. Cayan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Oceanography and Ecology, having authored 271 papers that have together received 30.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (155 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (65 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (57 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (45 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (35 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (35 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (30 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (23 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (21.3k citations), Atmospheric Science (14.7k citations), Water Science and Technology (6.9k citations), Oceanography (4.8k citations) and Ecological Modeling (1.0k citations). Daniel R. Cayan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and Costa Rica. Frequent co-authors include Michael D. Dettinger, Hugo G. Hidalgo, A. L. Westerling, Thomas W. Swetnam, David W. Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, Iris T. Stewart, Tapash Das, Noah Knowles and Edwin P. Maurer. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Climate Dynamics and Climatic Change.

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