| Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California NS Diffenbaugh, DL Swain, D Touma Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (13), 3931-3936, 2015 | 1255 | 2015 |
| Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California DL Swain, B Langenbrunner, JD Neelin, A Hall Nature Climate Change 8 (5), 427-433, 2018 | 656 | 2018 |
| Contribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to extreme temperature trends DE Horton, NC Johnson, D Singh, DL Swain, B Rajaratnam, ... Nature 522 (7557), 465-469, 2015 | 469 | 2015 |
| Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climate events NS Diffenbaugh, D Singh, JS Mankin, DE Horton, DL Swain, D Touma, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (19), 4881-4886, 2017 | 460 | 2017 |
| Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California M Goss, DL Swain, JT Abatzoglou, A Sarhadi, CA Kolden, AP Williams, ... Environmental Research Letters 15 (9), 094016, 2020 | 378 | 2020 |
| The extraordinary California drought of 2013-2014: character, context, and the role of climate change DL Swain, M Tsiang, M Haugen, D Singh, A Charland, B Rajaratnam, ... Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 95 (9), S3-S7, 2014 | 329 | 2014 |
| Trends in atmospheric patterns conducive to seasonal precipitation and temperature extremes in California DL Swain, DE Horton, D Singh, NS Diffenbaugh Science Advances 2 (4), e1501344, 2016 | 176 | 2016 |
| A tale of two California droughts: Lessons amidst record warmth and dryness in a region of complex physical and human geography DL Swain Geophysical Research Letters 42 (22), 9999-10,003, 2015 | 117 | 2015 |
| Attributing extreme events to climate change: a new frontier in a warming world DL Swain, D Singh, D Touma, NS Diffenbaugh One Earth 2 (6), 522-527, 2020 | 85 | 2020 |
| Increased flood exposure due to climate change and population growth in the United States DL Swain, OEJ Wing, PD Bates, JM Done, KA Johnson, DR Cameron Earth's Future 8 (11), e2020EF001778, 2020 | 84 | 2020 |
| Recent amplification of the North American winter temperature dipole D Singh, DL Swain, JS Mankin, DE Horton, LN Thomas, B Rajaratnam, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121 (17), 9911-9928, 2016 | 76 | 2016 |
| Future precipitation increase from very high resolution ensemble downscaling of extreme atmospheric river storms in California X Huang, DL Swain, AD Hall Science advances 6 (29), eaba1323, 2020 | 63 | 2020 |
| On the connection between global hydrologic sensitivity and regional wet extremes CW Thackeray, AM DeAngelis, A Hall, DL Swain, X Qu Geophysical Research Letters 45 (20), 11,343-11,351, 2018 | 52 | 2018 |
| A shorter, sharper rainy season amplifies California wildfire risk DL Swain Geophysical Research Letters 48 (5), e2021GL092843, 2021 | 51 | 2021 |
| Characterizing the spatial scales of extreme daily precipitation in the United States D Touma, AM Michalak, DL Swain, NS Diffenbaugh Journal of Climate 31 (19), 8023-8037, 2018 | 51 | 2018 |
| An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes MI Brunner, DL Swain, RR Wood, F Willkofer, JM Done, E Gilleland, ... Communications Earth & Environment 2 (1), 173, 2021 | 46 | 2021 |
| Remote linkages to anomalous winter atmospheric ridging over the northeastern Pacific DL Swain, D Singh, DE Horton, JS Mankin, TC Ballard, NS Diffenbaugh Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
| Spatial dependence of floods shaped by spatiotemporal variations in meteorological and land‐surface processes MI Brunner, E Gilleland, A Wood, DL Swain, M Clark Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL088000, 2020 | 44 | 2020 |
| Ridging associated with drought across the western and southwestern United States: Characteristics, trends, and predictability sources PB Gibson, DE Waliser, B Guan, MJ DeFlorio, FM Ralph, DL Swain Journal of Climate 33 (7), 2485-2508, 2020 | 43 | 2020 |
| Recent warming of landfalling atmospheric rivers along the west coast of the United States KR Gonzales, DL Swain, KM Nardi, EA Barnes, NS Diffenbaugh Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124 (13), 6810-6826, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
Noah DiffenbaughProfessor, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford UniversityVerified email at stanford.edu
