
Dr. Dan McEvoy
Associate Research Professor, Climatology
Phone
775-673-7682
Campus
Reno Campus
Full Resume / CV
Division
Atmospheric Sciences
Professional Interests
Dr. McEvoy is a researcher with the Western Regional Climate Center. His research interests are interdisciplinary and span the fields of climate, hydrology, and meteorology. Research interests include advancing drought monitoring technology, seasonal drought prediction, the role of evaporative demand on drought, quality and uncertainty assessment of weather observations, and climate modeling.
Research Areas
- drought monitoring
- climate variability
- seasonal prediction
- evapotranspiration and evaporative demand
- hydrometeorology
Education
Ph.D., 2015, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, Atmospheric Science
M.S., 2012, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, Atmospheric Science
B.S., 2005, Plattsburgh State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY, Environmental Science
Publications
2023
Spring heat waves drive record western United States snow melt in 2021, Environmental Research Letters, 18 (1). IOP Science, January 5, 2023, 10.1088/1748-9326/aca8bd
, (2023). Downscaled subseasonal fire danger forecast skill across the contiguous United States, Atmospheric Science Letters, March 1, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.1165
, , , , (2023). Final Report: Evaluating Nevada’s Drought Monitoring Network to Improve Drought Early Warning and Response, Prepared for the NOAA National Integrated Drought Information System, California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System, August 31, 2023
, , , , (2023). A Review of User Perceptions of Drought Indices and Indicators Used in the Diverse Climates of North America, Atmosphere, 1794, 14 (12), 1-28. MDPI, December 6, 2023, 10.3390/atmos14121794
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (2023). Utility of Atmospheric Evaporative Demand in Assessing Wildland Fire Potential, White paper for NIDIS, February 2023.
, , (2023). Evaluating Drought Indices for Alaska, Earth Interactions, 27 (1), January 1, 2023
, , (2023). 2022
A multi-dataset assessment of climatic drivers and uncertainties of recent trends in evaporative demand across the continental US, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 10.1175/JHM-D-21-0163.1
, , , , , , (2022). Validation and Bias Correction of Forecast Reference Evapotranspiration for Agricultural Applications in Nevada, USA, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148 (11), American Society for Civil Engineers, August 29, 2022-August 29, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001595
, , , , , , (2022). Decline in seasonal snow during a projected 20-year dry spell, Hydrology, 9 (9), August 26, 2022, https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology9090155
, , (2022). Monitoring the daily evolution and extent of snow drought, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22 (3), 869-890, March 16, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-869-2022
, , (2022). 2021
Emerging Anthropogenic Influences on the Southcentral Alaska Temperature and Precipitation Extremes and Related Fires in 2019, Land, 10 (1), January 17, 2021, https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010082
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (2021). Weather Factors Associated with Extremely Large Fires and Fire Growth Days, Earth Interactions, 25 (1), 160-176. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/eint/25/1/EI-D-21-0008.1.xml
, (2021). Satellite-based Drought Reporting on the Navajo Nation, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 57 (5), 675-691, 10.1111/1752-1688.12909
, , , , , , , , , , , (2021). 2020
Drought Sensitivity and Trends in Riparian Vegetation Vigor in Nevada, USA (1985-2018), Remote Sensing, 12, 1362, 10.3390/rs12091362
, , , , , (2020). Projected Changes in Reference Evapotranspiration in California and Nevada: Implications for Drought and Wildland Fire Danger, Earth’s Future, 8 (11), October 29, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001736
, , , , (2020). Nevada’s 2020 State Climate Strategy: Climate Change in Nevada. State of Nevada, December 1, 2020
https://climateaction.nv.gov/policies/climate-nv/
, , , , , , , , (2020). https://climateaction.nv.gov/policies/climate-nv/
Drought Sensitivity and Trends in Riparian Vegetation Vigor in Nevada, USA (1985-2018), Remote Sensing, 12, 1362, 10.3390/rs12091362
, , , , , (2020). 2019
World Marine Fog Based on 58 years of Ship Observations, International Journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6200
, , , (2019). Establishing Relationships between Drought Indices and Wildfire Danger Outputs: A Test Case for the California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System, Climate, 7 (4), 52, https://doi.org/10.3390/cli7040052
, , , , , , (2019). Record Setting 2018 California Wildfires [in “State of the Climate in 2018”], Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (9), S195-S196, doi:10.1175/2019BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
, , , (2019). Quantifying Human-Induced Temperature Impacts on the 2018 United States Four Corners Hydrologic and Agro-Pastoral Drought [in “Explaining Extremes of 2018 from a Climate Perspective”], Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, S15-S19, December 9, 2019, DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0187.1
, , , (2019). Projected Changes in Ventura County Climate. Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute: Reno, NV, http://wrcc.dri.edu/Climate/reports.php
, , , (2019). 2018
Exploring the Origins of Snow Drought in the Northern Sierra Nevada, California, Earth Interactions, 22 (2), 1-13, doi:10.1175/EI-D-17- 0027.1
, (2018). Washoe County Rain Gauge Network: Historical Analysis and Comparison to PRISM. Final Report for Western Regional Water Commission., pp. 27, June 11, 2018
, (2018). Assessing the effectiveness of riparian restoration projects using Landsat and precipitation data from the cloud-computing application ClimateEngine.org, Ecological Engineering, 120, 432-440, 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.06.024
, , , , , , , , , (2018). Comparison of Ambient Temperatures from ‘Donor Report’ to Modern Day Ambient Temperature for the Same Geographic Areas, CRC Report – CM-138-16-2. Coordinating Research Council: Alpharetta, GA
https://crcao.org/reports/recentstudies2018/CM-138-16-2/CM-138-16-2%20Final%20Report_December2018.pdf
, , , (2018). https://crcao.org/reports/recentstudies2018/CM-138-16-2/CM-138-16-2%20Final%20Report_December2018.pdf
Developing a Wildfire Component for the NIDIS California Drought Early Warning System. Annual Progress Report, NOAA SARP, 9 pp., April 2018.
, , , , , (2018). 2017
Worldwide Marine Fog Occurrence and Climatology (Book Chapter 3)Chapter : . In Dorman, C. E., Koracin, D. R. (Eds.), Marine Fog: Challenges and Advancements in Observations and Forecasting, Series: Springer Atmospheric Sciences, pp. 7-152. Springer International Publishing: Basel, Switzerland
, , , (2017). The West Wide Drought Tracker: Drought Monitoring at Fine Spatial Scales, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98 (9), 1815-1820, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0193.1
, , (2017). Climate Engine: Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data for Advanced Natural Resource Monitoring and Process Understanding, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98 (11), 2397-2410, 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00324.1
, , , , , , (2017). Chapter 11: Evapotranspiration, Evaporative Demand, and DroughtChapter : . In , Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology and Management Issues, 259-287. CRC Press
, , (2017). Examining the value of global seasonal reference evapotranspiration forecasts to support FEWS NET’s food insecurity outlooks, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 56 (11), 2941-2949, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0104.1
, , , , , , , (2017). Developing a Wildfire Component for the NIDIS California Drought Early Warning System. Annual Progress Report, NOAA SARP, Submitted, 10 pp., April 2017.
, , , , , (2017). Satellite Assessment of Early Season Forecasts for Vegetation Conditions of Grazing Allotments in Nevada, U.S.A., Rangeland Ecology and Management, 70 (6), 730-739, 10.1016/j.rama.2017.06.005
, , , , , (2017). 2016
Improved seasonal drought forecasts using reference evapotranspiration anomalies, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43 (1), 377-385, 10.1002/2015GL067009
, , , (2016). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Part I – Linking Drought Evolution to Variations in Evaporative Demand, J. Hydrometeor., 17, 1745-1761, 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0121.1
, , , , , , , (2016). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Part II — CONUS-wide Assessment Against Common Drought Indicators, J. Hydrometeor., 17, 1763-1799, 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0122.1
, , , , , , , (2016). Historical and Future Irrigation Water Requirements for Select Reclamation Project Areas, Western U.S, Bureau of Reclamation, 10.13140/RG.2.2.23078.93761
, , , , , (2016). Worldwide Marine Fog Occurrence and ClimatologyChapter 3: . In Koracin, D. R., Dorman, C. (Eds.), Marine Fog â Challenges and Advancements in Observations and Forecasting
, , , (2016). An Assessment of Climate Monitoring for Land Management Applications in the Great Basin, 1-58, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative: Reno, NV, CESU Project L13AC00262
, , , , , (2016). 2015
West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments: Irrigation Demand and Reservoir Evaporation Projections, Technical memorandum No. 68-68210-2014-01, 218 p, 754 appx. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
, , , , , , , , (2015). Improved Seasonal Drought Forecasts using Reference Evapotranspiration Anomalies, Geophysical Research Letters
, , , (2015). 2014
Use of an Observation Network in the Great Basin to Evaluate Gridded Climate Data, J. Hydrometeorol., 15, 1913-1931
, , (2014). 2012
An Evaluation of Multi-scalar Drought Indices in Nevada and Eastern California, Earth Interactions, 16 (18), 1-18, 10.1175/2012EI000447.1
, , , (2012). 2011
Climatological Estimates of Open Water Evaporation from Selected Truckee and Carson River Basin Water Bodies, California and Nevada, DRI Report No. 41254
, (2011). Conference Proceedings
2023
A Distributed Approach toward Developing Interactive and Scalable Maps for Climate Data-Driven Web Applications at the Western Regional Climate Center. AMS Annual Meeting: Denver, CO, January 8, 2023-January 12, 2023
, , , , , , , (2023). Stressor and Threat Assessment of Nevada Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Meeting, February 1, 2023
, , , (2023). . Potential utility of atmospheric evaporative demand in assessing wildland fire potential. 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium: Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1, 2023, Oral presentation
, , (2023). Trends of Increasing Evaporative Demand Across the Continental US Over the Past 40 Years. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA
, , , , , , (2023). Understanding the increasingly important role of evaporative demand as a driver of extreme drought and wildfire danger in the 21st century. American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA
, , , , (2023). Kelly Redmond Memorial Lecture: Current State of the Climate Across the West: Drought and Hydrometeorological Extremes. PACLIM: Pacific Grove, CA, February 28, 2023
(2023). Snow Drought in the West and Beyond. Thirteenth Biennial US Drought Monitor Forum: Boulder City, NV, April 12, 2023
, (2023). Accessing Climate Data with ClimateEngine.org. NIDIS Southern Plains DEWS Annual Partners Meeting: College Station, TX, September 20, 2023
(2023). Cloud-Based Drought Monitoring Using Google Earth Engine. AMS Annual Meeting: Denver, Colorado, January 9, 2023
, , , , , , , , (2023). 2022
Climate and Wildfire in the Western US. Wildfire on the Range, Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources Workshop: Boise, ID, May 13, 2022-May 13, 2022
(2022). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index Applications and Tools for Wildfire Danger. Predictive Services Monthly Webinar: virtual, May 10, 2022-May 10, 2022
, (2022). Cross-Divisional Collaboration. DRI Lunch and Learn, Desert Research Institute: Reno & Las Vegas, Nevada , April 25, 2022, Invited
, , , , , (2022). The role of antecedent conditions in the amplification of flooding from atmospheric rivers along the West Coast of the United States, American Geophysical Union: Chicago, IL, December 12, 2022-December 16, 2022
, , , (2022). Characterizing the roles of antecedent conditions as drivers of flood magnitudes from atmospheric rivers along the West Coast of the United States, International Atmospheric Rivers Conference (IARC): Santiago, Chile, October 10, 2022-October 14, 2022
, , , , (2022). Exploring atmospheric evaporative demand in relation to wildland fire, Advances in Forest Fire Research. IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research: Coimbra, Portugal, November 14, 2022-November 18, 2022
, , , (2022). Atmospheric evaporative demand in relation to wildland fire. Wildland Fire Canada Conference: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, November 3, 2022
, , (2022). Nighttime fire behavior and climate change â A new paradigm for wildland fire management, International Association of Wildland Fire, Fire & Climate 2022 Conference: Pasadena, CA, May 23, 2022-May 27, 2022
, , , , , (2022). Climate Change and Nighttime Fire Behavior, 3rd International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, May 3, 2022-May 6, 2022
, , , , , (2022). Using subseasonal climate variability at the community-level to advance place-based early warning systems in West Africa, AGU Annual Meeting: Chicago, IL, December 15, 2022
, , , , , , , , , , , , , (2022). Improving early warning of droughts near onset and middle of a growing season, EGU22-10481, EGU annual meeting: Vienna, Austria, May 1, 2022, 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-10481
, , , , , , , , , , , (2022). Recent Advances in Drought Monitoring and Prediction Research and Tools, Operation Sierra Storm: South Lake Tahoe, California, January 9, 2022
(2022). Putting the Recent (2020-??) Western U.S. Drought Into Historical Perspective: How bad is it and could it get worse?, Mensa Annual Gathering: Sparks, Nevada, July 6, 2022
(2022). Drought and Soil Moisture Monitoring with Climate Engine, NIDIS Soil Moisture Product Review: virtual, March 15, 2022
(2022). Climate, weather, and drought in Nevada: Looking back at the past and ahead towards the future, Nevada Drought Planning Workshop: Thinking Ahead for Dry Times, September 27, 2022
(2022). Collaborative Development of Climate Monitoring Tools, CAP Fellows: Interdisciplinary Fire Science Panel, July 14, 2022
(2022). 2021
Late Onset of Extreme Snow Drought in the Western US in 2021: Origins and Impacts. AGU Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, December 15, 2021-December 15, 2021
, (2021). Identifying Indicators and Timescales of Agricultural Drought in the Northeast United States using Crop Area-weighted Drought Indices. AGU Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, December 15, 2021-December 15, 2021
, , , , , (2021). The role of drought in the persistence of post-fire hydrologic hazards. AGU Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, December 15, 2021-December 15, 2021
, , , , , , , (2021). Advanced Rangeland Monitoring with ClimateEngine.org. US Forest Service Rangeland Technology Summit: virtual, April 5, 2021-April 7, 2021
(2021). Application of subseasonal scale climate forecasts in supporting food-insecurity early warning. AGU Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, December 15, 2021-December 15, 2021
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , (2021). Forecasting agropastoral water deficits in West Africa to support food insecurity early warning. European Geophysical Union: virtual, April 15, 2021-April 15, 2021
, , , , , , , , , , , (2021). Climate change attribution of nighttime fire behavior. 13th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, American Meteorological Society: [Virtual], May 11, 2021-May 13, 2021
, (2021). 2020
Using satellite remote sensing and climate data to assess status and trends of groundwater dependent ecosystem vegetation in Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association: Las Vegas, NV, February 11, 2020-February 13, 2020
, , , , , , (2020). Western Regional Climate Center, and Program in Climate, Ecosystems, and Fire Applications at DRI. Presentation to DRI External Review Panel, Desert Research Institute: Reno, NV, February 19, 2020
, , (2020). Projected Changes in Reference Evapotranspiration in California and Nevada: Implications for Drought and Wildland Fire Danger. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Boston, MA, January 12, 2020-January 16, 2020
, , , (2020). A Retrospective View of the Application of Global Gridded Reference Evapotranspiration. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Boston, MA, January 12, 2020-January 16, 2020
, , , , , (2020). Subseasonal scale climate variability and food insecurity in West Africa. AGU Fall Meeting: Virtual, December 1, 2020-December 17, 2020
, , , , , , , , (2020). The Western Regional Climate Center Snow Drought Tracker and other web-based tools for monitoring Sierra Nevada hydroclimate. Sierra Nevada Alliance Biennial Conference, September 10, 2020-September 11, 2020
, , (2020). Assessing the Effects of Climate and Management on Meadow and Riparian Vegetation Using the Landsat Archive and Cloud Computing – Tools and Applications. Society for Ecological Restoration – California Chapter, September 1, 2020-September 24, 2020
, , , , , , , , (2020). Drought and Climate Status Update and Outlook. NIDIS CA-NV DEWS Drought and Climate Outlook Webinar, May 26, 2020
(2020). Projected Changes in Reference Evapotranspiration in California and Nevada: Implications for Drought and Wildland Fire Danger. California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System September Drought and Climate Outlook Webinar, September 28, 2020
(2020). NOAA Climate Science & Services Monthly Climate Update, November 19, 2020
, , (2020). 2019
Climate Engine: On-Demand Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data. American Water Works Association Sustainable Water Management Conference: Tucson, AZ, April 3, 2019
, , , , , (2019). Impacts of Recent Snow Droughts in the Northern Sierra Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Meeting: Reno, NV, January 29, 2019-January 31, 2019
, (2019). Assessing multi-decadal changes in riparian areas across Nevada using the Landsat archive. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting: Phoenix, AZ, September 22, 2019-September 25, 2019, 179-11
, , , , (2019). Assessing the role of climate and resource management on groundwater dependent ecosystem changes in arid environments with the Landsat archive and cloud computing. American Fisheries Society/The Wildlife Society Joint Meeting: Reno, NV, September 30, 2019-October 3, 2019, 8014-3
, , , , , , , (2019). Climate Engine: On-Demand Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data. Society for Range Management Winter Meeting â Emerging Technologies for both Ranchers and Agencies: Elko, NV, December 13, 2019-December 13, 2019
, , , , , (2019). Development of Real Time Snow Drought Tracking Tools for the Western United States. California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System Partners Meeting: Sacramento, CA, November 18, 2019-November 19, 2019
, , (2019). Western Regional Climate Center Update. WERA 102 Annual Meeting: Reno, NV, September 30, 2019-October 1, 2019
(2019). Evaporative Demand Seasonal Forecast Verification, Drought in the Intermountain West: A Workshop on Drought Recovery Tools and Perspectives: Boulder, CO, September 24, 2019-September 24, 2019
(2019). Incorporating Drought Information into Wildland Fire Management Applications: Recent Research and Tool Development in California and Nevada, AFSC and ACCAP Presentation: Fairbanks, AK, August 12, 2019-August 12, 2019
(2019). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Research, Tools, and Applications for Wildland Fire Management, 6th Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference: Albuquerque, NM, April 29, 2019-May 3, 2019
(2019). Impacts of Recent Temperature-Driven Snow Droughts in the Northern Sierra Nevada, 87th Annual Western Snow Conference: Reno, NV, April 15, 2019-April 18, 2019
, (2019). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Research, Tools, and Applications for Wildland Fire Management. SOO/DOH Science Call, April 10, 2019-April 10, 2019
(2019). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Research, Tools, and Applications for Wildland Fire Management, Incident Meteorologist Training: Boise, ID, March 14, 2019-March 14, 2019
(2019). The California and Nevada climate trackers. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Phoenix, AZ, January 7, 2019
, , , (2019). Using the Landsat Archive to Assess Multi-Decadal Changes in Riparian Vegetation in Western U.S. Drylands. AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2019-December 13, 2019, Presentation No. H43A-08
, , , , (2019). Combining On-demand Processing of Climate and Satellite Data via ClimateEngine.org for Advanced Drought and Natural Resource Monitoring, and Process Understanding in Arid Environments. AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2019-December 13, 2019, Presentation No. H13G-01. Invited talk
, , , , , , (2019). 2018
Snow Drought: Concepts, Monitoring, and Impacts. North American Drought Monitor Forum: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 1, 2018-May 3, 2018
, (2018). Validating Forecast Reference Evapotranspiration in Nevada using the Nevada Integrated Climate and Evapotranspiration Network. Solar Energy-Water-Environment Nexus in Nevada Annual Meeting: Reno, NV, April 30, 2018
, , (2018). Evapotranspiration changes in mountain meadows: climate change, management and other factors to consider. Society of Range Management Annual Meeting: Sparks, Nevada, January 28, 2018-February 2, 2018
, , , , , (2018). Evaporative demand: dynamics and opportunities in drought early warning, monitoring, and S2S predictability. Aspen Global Change Institute Workshop: When the Rain Stops: Drought on Sub-Seasonal and Longer Timescales: Aspen, CO, September 10, 2018-September 14, 2018
, , (2018). Evaporative demand: dynamics and opportunities in drought early warning, monitoring, and vulnerability assessment. Sixth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds: Shepherdstown, WV, July 23, 2018-July 26, 2018
, , , , , , (2018). Connecting Drought and Wildfire. American Meteorological Society 12th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium: Boise, ID, May 15, 2018-May 17, 2018
, , , (2018). Update: Establishing Relationships between Drought and Wildfire Danger Indices for Improved Wildfire Risk Management. California FIRESCOPE, May 9, 2018
, , , , , , (2018). Establishing Relationships between Drought and Wildfire Danger Indices for Improved Wildfire Risk Management. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 7, 2018-January 11, 2018
, , , , , (2018). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Research and Applications for Wildland Fire Management. Predictive Services Winter Meeting: Meridian, Idaho, December 4, 2018-December 6, 2018
, , , , (2018). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Research and Applications for Wildland Fire Management. Advanced Fire Environment Learning Unit Fall Webinar, November 7, 2018
, , , , (2018). Evaporative Demand Drought Index: Monitoring and Seasonal Predictions. The Burning Desert: A Workshop on Drought Recovery: Phoenix, AZ, September 11, 2018
, , (2018). Great Basin Climate Update: Recent Conditions and What to Expect This Winter. Great Basin Climate Forum: Reno, Nevada, December 6, 2018
(2018). Drought Monitoring Tools from the Western Regional Climate Center. NOAA Western Region Drought Tools Webinar, November 28, 2018
(2018). Establishing Relationships Between Drought and Wildfire Danger Indices for Improved Wildfire Risk Management. Nevada Water Resources Association Fall Symposium: Reno, Nevada, September 25, 2018-September 26, 2018
, , , , , , (2018). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI): early warning and monitoring of drought from the demand side. American Water Works Association Sustainable Water Management Conference: Seattle, Washington, March 25, 2018
, , , , , , , , , , (2018). Early warning of food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring predictors beyond traditionally used seasonal rainfall forecasts. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Washington, D.C., December 10, 2018-December 14, 2018
, , , , , , , , , , (2018). 2017
Drought Monitoring With The Evaporative Demand Drought Index. Tenth Biennial US Drought Monitor Forum: Keystone, South Dakota, April 3, 2017, Invited
(2017). Drought Monitoring With The Evaporative Demand Drought Index. NIDIS Drought Amelioration Workshop: Incline Village, NV, June 2, 2017, Invited
(2017). Drought Monitoring With The Evaporative Demand Drought Index. NIDIS California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System First Annual Coordination Workshop: Reno, NV, June 21, 2017-June 22, 2017, Invited
(2017). Climate and Surface Water Supply Trends in Nevada. Nevada Water Law Conference: Reno, NV, November 13, 2017-November 13, 2017, Invited
(2017). Precipitation and Drought Monitoring: Data and Visualization Tools. CA-NV Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Conference: Reno, NV, October 20, 2017, Invited
(2017). Exploring the Hydrometeorological Origins of Snow Drought. Yosemite Hydroclimate Meeting: Yosemite National Park, CA, October 5, 2017-October 6, 2017
, (2017). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI): a New Drought Monitoring and Early Warning Tool. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, January 26, 2017-January 26, 2017, Oral presentation.
, , , , , , , , (2017). Cloud Computing of Satellite and Gridded Climate Data: From Archives to Answers. Colorado River Hydrology Research Symposium: Las Vegas, NV, May 22, 2017, Invited oral presentation.
, (2017). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI): A New Drought Monitoring and Early Warning Tool. Universities Council on Water Resources / National Institutes for Water Resources Conference: Fort Collins, CO, June 13, 2017-June 15, 2017, Oral presentation.
, , , (2017). The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI): An Emerging Drought-Monitoring and Early Warning Tool. US Drought Monitor Forum: Keystone, SD, April 3, 2017-April 5, 2017, Oral presentation.
, , , , , , , , , (2017). R2O of the Evaporative Demand Drought Index: The Physical Basis for a New Early Warning and Monitoring Index for Drought and Engagement with Stakeholders. 15th Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop: Anchorage, AK, May 2, 2017-May 4, 2017, Oral presentation.
, , , , , , , (2017). 2016
Analysis of the Relationship Between Nevada Surface Water Deficits and the Evaporative Demand Drought Index. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Las Vegas, NV, March 1, 2016
, , (2016). NICE Net and Reference Evapotranspiration in Nevada. Western States Water Council Irrigation Management Information Systems Workshop: San Diego, CA, August 25, 2016
, , , (2016). Monitoring Drought with Google Earth Engine: From Archives to Answers. Google Earth Engine User Summit: Mountain View, CA, June 14, 2016-June 16, 2016, Invited plenary presentation.
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The Evaporative Demand Drought Index: A New Drought Early Warning and Monitoring Index for Drought and Wildfire Prediction. 14th Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop: Burlington, VT, March 22, 2016
, , , , , , (2016). EDDI Examines the Current California Drought: Early Warning and Monitoring of Agricultural and Hydrologic Drought with the New Evaporative Demand Drought Index. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 10, 2016-January 14, 2016
, , , , , (2016). Climate Engine? Monitoring Drought with Google Earth Engine. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016
, , , , , (2016). Nevada Drought Monitoring through Cloud Computing and Visualization of Remote Sensing and Meteorological Data. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Las Vegas, NV, March 1, 2016
, , , , , , (2016). What Role Does Evaporative Demand Play in Driving Drought in Africa?. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016
, , , , , , , , , , (2016). Monitoring and Forecasting Reference Evapotranspiration for Food Security Assessments. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016
, , , , , , , , (2016). Creating a Regional Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) for California and Nevada: Building Off of Information Gathered and Lessons Learned After 5 Years of Drought. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016
, , , , , , , (2016). Evaluating the effect of restoration practices on riparian vegetation using remote sensing data. American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall Meeting: San Francisco, Calif., December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016, B43A-0562
, , , , , (2016). The spatialness of drought and fire shaped by a cloud: Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, March 17, 2016
, , (2016). Linking Evaporative Demand Surplus and Precipitation Deficits to Multi-Year Streamflow Drought in California. Yosemite Hydroclimate Meeting: Yosemite National Park, CA
, (2016). Current Drought Conditions and What’s in Store. California Cattlemen’s Drought and Disaster Assistance Workshop: Sparks, NV, December 1, 2016, Invited
(2016). California Climate and Drought Update. CA-NV DEWS Central Valley Drought and Climate Outlook: Fresno, CA, October 12, 2016, Invited
(2016). California Climate and Drought Update. CA-NV DEWS North Central Coast Drought and Climate Outlook: Seaside, CA, October 11, 2016, Invited
(2016). California Climate and Drought Update. CA-NV DEWS Southern California Drought and Climate Outlook: Riverside, CA, September 15, 2016, Invited
(2016). Western Regional Climate Center: Tools You Can Use. Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council Training: Seattle, WA, August 9, 2016, Invited
(2016). Making Sense of El Niño and Seasonal Climate Forecasts in the West. Public lecture series: Science Distilled: The Winter that was?: Reno, NV, June 1, 2016, Invited
(2016). Understanding Hydrologic and Rangeland Drought in Nevada. BLM Rangeland Seminar: Reno, NV, January 19, 2016, Invited
(2016). 2015
Evaporation Estimates for Lake Tahoe: Review, Challenges, and Future Opportunities. Tahoe Science Conference: Reno, NV, September 1, 2015-September 3, 2015
, , , , , (2015). Monitoring Perennial Yield, Groundwater Discharge, and ET from Irrigated Agriculture with the Landsat Archive. (Invited) International Workshop on Evapotranspiration Mapping for Water Security: World Bank, Washington D.C., September 15, 2015-September 15, 2015
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (2015). Groundwater Appropriation, Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems, and 3M Plans in the Great Basin. (Invited) Great Basin Consortium: Boise, Idaho, February 17, 2015-February 19, 2015
, , , , , (2015). Cloud Computing for Drought Monitoring with Google Earth Engine. (Invited) U.S. Drought Monitor Forum: Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, April 14, 2015-April 16, 2015
, , , , , , , , , , , , (2015). Development of a complete Landsat evapotranspiration and energy balance archive to support agricultural consumptive water use reporting and prediction in the Central Valley, CA. 2015 Fall Conference American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015
, , , , , (2015). The current California drought through EDDI’s eyes: early warning and monitoring of agricultural and hydrologic drought with the new Evaporative Demand Drought Index. 2015 Fall Conference American Geophysical Union: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015
, , , , , (2015). Quantifying Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem Changes Associated with Water Availability and Management in Arid Environments using the Landsat Archive. Landsat Science Team Meeting: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, July 7, 2015-July 9, 2015
, , , , , , , , , (2015). Optimization of evaporative demand models for seasonal drought forecasts. American Geophysical Union Fall Conference: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015
, , (2015). Analysis of the Relationship between California Surface Water Deficits and the Evaporative Demand Drought Index. American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference: California Drought: Causes, Impacts, and Policy: Irvine, CA, April 20, 2015-April 22, 2015
, , (2015). Monitoring the California Drought with a novel drought index: the Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI). American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference: California Drought: Causes, Impacts, and Policy: Irvine, CA, April 20, 2015-April 22, 2015
, , , , (2015). Exploring the use of physically based evaporative demand anomalies to improve seasonal drought prediction. Nevada Water Resources Association
, , , , , , (2015). Google Drought Monitoring Through Cloud Computing and Visualization of Remote Sensing and Meteorological Datasets: Examples for California. American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference: Irvine, CA, April 20, 2015-April 22, 2015
, , , , , , , , (2015). 2014
Regional Climate Simulations of Cold Season Precipitation over the Great Basin. Presentation at the AMS 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 94th AMS Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA, February 2, 2014
, (2014). Evaporative Demand Drought Index: The Physical Basis. . American Geophysical Union 2014 Fall Conference: San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2014-December 19, 2014, Poster No. H41B-0799
, , , , (2014). Exploring the use of physically based evaporative demand anomalies to improve seasonal drought prediction. American Geophysical Union 2014 Fall Conference: San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2014-December 19, 2014
, , , , , (2014). Tracking Flash Drought with Land-Atmospheric Feedbacks. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA, February 2, 2014-February 2, 2014
, , , (2014). Long Term Increase In Fog Occurrence Over The NW Pacific And NW Atlantic Fog Maximums, Decadal-Multidecadal variability in Pacific and Atlantic basins. Poster, AMS 94th annual Meeting 2014: Atlanta, GA, February 2, 2014
, , , (2014). 2013
A Comparison of the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index Using Thronthwaite and Penman-Monteith Parameterizations for Potential Evapotranspiration
, , (2013). 2012
Utility of precipitation indices as indicators of drought in Nevada and Eastern California. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Las Vegas, NV
, , (2012). Climatological Estimates of Open Water Evaporation from Selected Truckee & Carson River Basin Water Bodies, California & Nevada. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference: Las Vegas, NV
, (2012). Evaluation of Regional Downscaling Predictions of Future Drought Probabilities in the Western United States. AMS 92nd Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 22, 2012
, , , (2012). 2011
Utility of Precipitation Indices as Indicators of Drought in Nevada and Eastern California. American Geophysical Union 2011 Fall Conference: San Francisco, CA
, , (2011). Utility of Precipitation Indices as Indicators of Drought in Nevada. 19th Conference on Applied Climatology/36th Annual Meeting of the American Association of State Climatiologists and Practical Solutions for a Warming World: Asheville, North Carolina
, , (2011). Other
2023
Drought Timescales: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Dry Times in California and Nevada. CCME Webinar: Long-term drought and chronic water shortanges, insights from CA-NV/MT: webinar, April 5, 2023
(2023). Nevada Climate and Water Data: Challenges and Resources. State of Nevada State Water Plan Stakeholder Advisory Group Meeting: virtual, June 6, 2023
(2023). 2022
Overview of Current Drought Conditions in the Region. Tri-Ute Climate and Drought Early Warning Workshop: virtual, May 23, 2022-May 24, 2022
(2022). Northern Nevada Drought Update, National Weather Service Drought Briefing: virtual, February 16, 2022
(2022). Drought and Climate Update and Outlook, NIDIS Drought Update and Wildfire Outlook Webinar for California and the Southwest, June 2, 2023
(2022). Drought and Climate Status Update and Outlook, NIDIS CA-NV DEWS Drought and Climate Update Webinar: virtual, January 24, 2022
(2022). California and Nevada Drought and Climate Update and Outlook, NIDIS CA-NV DEWS Drought and Climate Outlook Webinar: virtual, November 28, 2022
(2022). 2021
Confessions of a Climatologist: I really don’t know if it will snow a lot this winter. DRI Science Distilled: Virtual Edition: virtual, January 15, 2021-January 15, 2021
(2021). Western US Drought and Climate Update. US Forest Service, A WestâWide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Uncharted Territory: virtual, June 4, 2021-June 4, 2021
(2021). Drought Monitoring Resources from the Western Regional Climate Center. National Weather Service Western States Drought Workshop: virtual, June 17, 2021-June 17, 2021
(2021). Evolution and Historical Context of the 2021 Pacific Northwest Drought. Columbia River Forecast Group WY2021 Summer Meeting: virtual, September 9, 2021-September 9, 2021
(2021). NOAA Climate Science and Services Monthly Climate Update. NOAA: virtual, August 15, 2021-August 15, 2021
, , (2021). Tracking the Extreme Western US Drought Using Climate Engine. American Water Works Association Webinar Series: virtual, August 24, 2021-August 24, 2021
(2021). Drought In the Desert: A look at the drivers of atmospheric and land surface drying in the arid Southwest and regional impacts. Nevada International Women’s Forum Webinar: virtual, October 6, 2021-October 6, 2021
(2021). The Ongoing CA/NV Drought: A Panel Discussion. UNR Graduate Program of Hydrologic Science: virtual, October 1, 2021-October 1, 2021
, , , (2021). Drought and Climate Status Update and Outlook. NIDIS CA-NV DEWS Drought and Climate Outlook: virtual, March 22, 2021-March 22, 2021
(2021). 2020
Development of Real Time Snow Drought Tracking Tools for the Western United States. DRI Conversations with Innovators IRP, November 10, 2020
, , (2020). Climate Change in Nevada: Concepts, Tools, and Resources. DRI Science Alive Energy Smart Educator Workshop, October 26, 2020
(2020). Current State of the Climate in Northwest Nevada: Developing Drought and Summer Wildfire Potential. DRI Science Talk, May 20, 2020
(2020). 2018
Origins of northern Sierra Nevada snow droughts, Mountain Views Chronicle, 12 (1), 5-8
, (2018). 2017
California Climate and Drought Update, Invited talk. CA-NV DEWS Southern California Winter Status Update: La Jolla, CA, February 9, 2017
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