Richard Seager

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Climate variability and models(269), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations(110), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes(66), Tree-ring climate responses(66), Hydrology and Drought Analysis(63)

Publications411 total

Pacific Decadal Variability and Its Hydroclimate Teleconnections in CMIP6 Models
Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)·2026Open Access
CMIP6 models cannot capture long-term forced changes in the tropical Pacific sea surface temperature gradient
Nature Communications·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Mediterranean Drying by a Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Trend over the Last 65 Years Is an Extreme Outlier in the CMIP6 Multimodel Ensemble
Journal of Climate·2025
Trends and Pathways of the Contributions of Southeastern Subtropical Pacific Water to the Equatorial Undercurrent
Journal of Climate·2025
Pacific Decadal Variability and Its Hydroclimate Teleconnections in CMIP6 Models
Journal of Climate·2025· 1 cited
Nonlinear Carbon Feedbacks in CMIP6 and Their Impacts on Future Freshwater Availability
Journal of Climate·2025Open Access
The Influence of Land‐Surface Conditions on the 2020–2021 Western US Drought
Water Resources Research·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
Subsurface Cooling and Sea Surface Temperature Pattern Formation Over the Equatorial Pacific
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Dynamics of Future Soil Moisture Drought in Southwest North America: Linkages across Seasons in the Ocean–Atmosphere–Land System
Journal of Climate·2025Open Access
Megapluvials in Southwestern North America
AGU Advances·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Utilizing Satellite Data for Large-Scale Monitoring and Analysis of Flash Droughts Across the Contiguous United States 
2025Open Access
Nonlinear carbon feedbacks in CMIP6 and their impacts on future freshwater availability
2024Open Access
Subsurface cooling and sea surface temperature pattern formation over the equatorial Pacific
2024Open Access
A More La Niña–Like Response to Radiative Forcing after Flux Adjustment in CESM2
Journal of Climate·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 44 citedOpen Access
The West Pacific Teleconnection Drives the Interannual Variability of Autumn Wildfire Weather in the Western United States After 2000
Earth s Future·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Tropical thermocline helps power Pacific equatorial upwelling
2024Open Access
A climate change signal in the tropical Pacific emerges from decadal variability
Nature Communications·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Revisiting the “East African Paradox”: CMIP6 Models Also Struggle to Reproduce Strong Observed Long Rain Drying Trends
Journal of Climate·2024· 3 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Yochanan Kushnir(15), Mark A. Cane(14), Mingfang Ting(8), Naomi Naik(8), Edward R. Cook(8), Benjamin I. Cook(7), Jennifer Nakamura(7), Park Williams(5), Jason E. Smerdon(5), Amy Clement(5), Martin P. Hoerling(5), Naomi Henderson(5), Bradfield Lyon(5), Cuihua Li(4), Celine Herweijer(4), Siegfried D. Schubert(4), Gabriel A. Vecchi(3), Annarita Mariotti(3), Hailan Wang(3), Haibo Liu(3)