Recent Publications

Bell, J.L. and L.C. Sloan, CO₂ Sensitivity of Extreme Climate Events in the Western United States, Earth Interactions, Vol. 10, Paper 15, 2006.

Kueppers L.M., M.A. Snyder, L.C. Sloan, E.S. Zavaleta, and B. Fulfrost, Modeled regional climate change and California endemic oak ranges, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Published online before print October 31, 2005 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0501427102

Snyder, M.A. and L.C. Sloan, Transient Future Climate over the Western U.S. using a Regional Climate Model, Earth Interactions, Vol. 9, Paper 11, 2005.

Sewall, JO and Sloan L.C., Less ice, Less tilt, Less chill: The influence of seasonally ice-free Arctic Ocean and changing obliquity on Early Paleogene climate, Geology; June 2004; v. 32; no. 6; p. 477–480; doi: 10.1130/G20295.1

Diffenbaugh, Noah S. and L.C. Sloan, Mid-Holocene orbital forcing of regional-scale climate: a case study of western North America using a high-resolution RCM, Journal of Climate, 17(15), 2927-2937, 2004.

Snyder, M.A., Sloan, L.C., and Bell, J.L., Modeled Regional Climate Change in the Hydrologic Regions of California: A CO₂ Sensitivity Study, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 40 (3):591-601 JUN 2004

Sewall, JO and Sloan LC, Disappearing Arctic sea ice reduces available water in the American West, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31, L06209, doi: 10.1029/2003Gl019133, 2004

Bell, J.L., Sloan, L.C., and Snyder, M.A., Regional changes in extreme climatic events, Journal of Climate,17 (1), pgs 81-87, 2004.

Diffenbaugh, N.S., M.A. Snyder, and L.C. Sloan, Could CO2-Induced Land Cover Feedbacks Alter Near-shore Upwelling Regimes?, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 101 (1), 27-31, 2004.

Snyder, MA, LC Sloan, NS Diffenbaugh, and JL Bell, Future Climate Change and Upwelling in the California Current, Geophysical Research Letters,Vol. 30, No. 15, 1823, 10.1029/2003GL017647, 2003

Shellito C.J., L.C. Sloan, and M. Huber, Climate model sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 levels in the Early-Middle Paleogene, Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 193 (2003) 113-123

Dole K.P., M. Loik, and L.C. Sloan, The relative importance of climate change and the physiological effects of CO2 on freezing tolerance for the future distribution of Yucca brevifolia, Global and Planetary Change, v. 36, 137-146, 2003

Lawerence, K.T., L.C. Sloan, and J. Sewall Terrestrial climatic response to precessional forcing in the Eocene in, Wing, S.L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B., and Thomas, E. (eds.), Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene, Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 369, P. 65-77, 2003

Diffenbaugh, N.S., L.C. Sloan, M.A. Snyder, J.L. Bell, J. Kaplan, S.L. Shafer, and P.J. Bartlein, Vegetation sensitivity to global anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions in a topographically complex region, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17 (2), 1067, 10.1029/2002GB001974, 2003

Diffenbaugh, N.S., L.C. Sloan, and M.A. Snyder, Orbital Suppression of Wind Driven Upwelling in the California Current at 6ka, Paleoceanography, 18 (2), 1051, 10.1029/2002PA000865, 2003

Diffenbaugh, Noah S., and Lisa C. Sloan, Global climate sensitivity to land surface change: the Mid Holocene revisited, Geophyscial Research Letters, 29(10), 10.1029/2002GL014880, 2002.

Snyder, Mark A., Jason L. Bell, Lisa C. Sloan, Phillip B. Duffy, and Balasumbramanian Govindasamy, Climate responses to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide for a climatically vulnerable region, Geophysical Research Letters, 29(11), 10.1029/2001GL014431, 2002.

Bell, J. L., L. C. Sloan, J. Revenaugh, P.B. Duffy, Evalutation of Northern Hemisphere natural climate variability in multiple temperature reconstructions and global climate model simulations, Global and Planetary Change, 37, 2003. doi: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)000189-3.

Sewall, J. O., and L. C. Sloan, Equable Paleogene climates: The result of a stable, positive Arctic Oscillation?, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 28, No. 19, Pages 3693-3695, October 1, 2001.

Sloan, L. C., and M. Huber, Eocene Oceanic Responses to Orbital Forcing on Precessional Time Scales, Paleoceanography, v. 16, 101-111, 2001

Huber, M. and L. C. Sloan, Heat transport, deep wateres, and temperature gradients: Coupled simulation of an Eocene "Greenhouse" climate, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 28, 3481-3484, 2001