Richard Seager

34.5k citations

254 papers · 25.2k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 81

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.01%
- Climate variability and models
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Atmospheric Science top 0.02%
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 230
- Climate variability and models 211
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 47
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis 44
Atmospheric Science 189
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 89
- Tree-ring climate responses 47
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research 46
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 34

Co-authors: Mark A. Cane Yochanan Kushnir Benjamin I. Cook Naomi Naik Mingfang Ting Edward R. Cook Jason E. Smerdon Amy Clement
Journals: Journal of Climate (86 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (21 papers)Climate Dynamics (13 papers)Journal of Hydrometeorology (7 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Richard Seager

249 papers receiving 24.3k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

Strengthening tropical Pacific zonal sea surface temperature gradient consistent with rising greenhouse gases 2019 · 359 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Nature Climate Change
2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2015 Geophysical Research Letters
2014 Climate Dynamics
2013 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
2012 Nature Climate Change
2010 Journal of Climate
2007 Earth-Science Reviews
2007 Science

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	CMIP6 models cannot capture long-term forced changes in the tropical Pacific sea surface temperature gradient Nature Communications ·Hannah Byrne, Richard Seager, Jason E. Smerdon	2025	0
2	The Influence of Land‐Surface Conditions on the 2020–2021 Western US Drought Water Resources Research ·Yelin Jiang, Jason E. Smerdon, Richard Seager, Guiling Wang, Benjamin I. Cook, Cheng Zheng, Justin Mankin, Park Williams	2025	0
3	Significant contribution of internal variability to recent Barents–Kara sea ice loss in winter Communications Earth & Environment ·P Machon, Yutian Wu, Mingfang Ting, Cheng Zheng, Qinghua Ding, Richard Seager	2024	4
4	A climate change signal in the tropical Pacific emerges from decadal variability Nature Communications ·Feng Jiang, Richard Seager, Mark A. Cane	2024	5
5	Increasing prevalence of hot drought across western North America since the 16th century Science Advances ·Lukas Schefer, Edward R. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Benjamin I. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Richard Seager, Grant L. Harley, Weiruo Guo	2024	21
6	Ocean-forcing of cool season precipitation drives ongoing and future decadal drought in southwestern North America npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·Richard Seager, Mingfang Ting, Patrick Alexander, Haibo Liu, Jennifer Nakamura, Cuihua Li, Matthew Newman	2023	21
7	The Most Effective Remote Forcing in Causing U.S.‐Wide Heat Extremes as Revealed by CESM Green's Function Experiments Geophysical Research Letters ·東吾唐沢, Jian Lu, Mingfang Ting, Richard Seager, Fukai Liu	2023	1
8	Turbulent Heat Flux, Downward Longwave Radiation, and Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Associated with Wintertime Barents–Kara Sea Extreme Sea Ice Loss Events Journal of Climate ·Cheng Zheng, Mingfang Ting, Yutian Wu, N. T. Kurtz, Clara Orbe, Patrick Alexander, Richard Seager, Marco Tedesco	2022	7
9	The impact of flooding on food security across Africa Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jian Sun, Weston Anderson, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Jennifer Nakamura, Denise Wong, Richard Seager, Sonali McDermid	2022	52
10	On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·Sukyoung Lee, Michelle L’Heureux, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Richard Seager, Paul A. O’Gorman, Nathaniel C. Johnson	2022	96
11	Gross Discrepancies between Observed and Simulated Twentieth-to-Twenty-First-Century Precipitation Trends in Southeastern South America Journal of Climate ·Arianna M. Varuolo‐Clarke, Jason E. Smerdon, Park Williams, Richard Seager	2021	14
12	Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO₂ Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Sonali McDermid, Benjamin I. Cook, Martin G. De Kauwe, Justin Mankin, Jason E. Smerdon, Park Williams, Richard Seager, Michael J. Puma, Igor Aleinov, Maxwell Kelley, Larissa Nazarenko	2021	19
13	Divergent Regional Climate Consequences of Maintaining Current Irrigation Rates in the 21st Century Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Benjamin I. Cook, Sonali McDermid, Michael J. Puma, Park Williams, Richard Seager, Maxwell Kelley, Larissa Nazarenko, Igor Aleinov	2020	22
14	Future Summer Drying in the Midwestern United State in CMIP5 Models and the Role of Midlatitude Storm Tracks AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Mingfang Ting, Richard Seager, Cuihua Li	2019	1
15	Climate Change In The Fertile Crescent And Implications Of The Recent Drought In Syria 2015 AGU Fall Meeting ·C. P. Kelley, H. Gorena, Mark A. Cane, Richard Seager, Franciszek Dąbrowski	2015	1
16	The American Midsummer Drought in CMIP5: Multi-Model Evaluation and Projections AGUFM ·Oldřich Dostál, Richard Seager	2012	1
17	Decadal Climate Prediction: Opportunities and Challenges MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) ·James W. Hurrell, Thomas L. Delworth, Gökhan Danabasoglu, Helge Drange, Stephen M. Griffies, Neil J. Holbrook, Ben P. Kirtman, Noel Keenlyside, Mojib Latif, Jochem Marotzke, Gerald A. Meehl, T. N. Palmer, Holger Pohlmann, Tony Rosati, Richard Seager, David Smith, Rowan Sutton, Axel Timmermann, Kevin E. Trenberth, Joseph Tribbia	2009	10
18	The potential for abrupt change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Ahmed Nasr-Allah, Glenn Milton, Marika M. Holland, В. Д. Котелкин, Till Kuhlbrodt, Jean Lynch‐Stieglitz, Carrie Morrill, Richard Seager, Amit Ranjan Azad, Rong Zhang	2008	14
19	The Role of Tropical Pacific SSTs in Global Medieval Hydroclimate: A modeling study AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Amy Clement, Robert Burgman, Richard Seager	2008	1
20	Volcanoes and ENSO over the past millennium Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) ·Julien Emile‐Geay, Richard Seager, Mark A. Cane, Edward R. Cook, Gerald H. Haug	2007	4

About Richard Seager

Richard Seager is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Space and Planetary Science and Water Science and Technology, having authored 254 papers that have together received 25.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (211 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (89 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (53 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (47 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (47 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (46 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (44 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (34 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (19.9k citations), Atmospheric Science (15.4k citations), Oceanography (4.6k citations), Water Science and Technology (2.0k citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.7k citations). Richard Seager has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Mark A. Cane, Yochanan Kushnir, Benjamin I. Cook, Naomi Naik, Mingfang Ting, Edward R. Cook, Jason E. Smerdon, Amy Clement, Gabriel A. Vecchi and Jennifer Nakamura. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Hydrometeorology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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