Linda Mearns

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PhD Geology University of Colorado Boulder
Masters Geology University of Colorado Boulder
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According to Wikipedia, Linda Opal Mearns is a geographer and climate scientist specializing in climate change assessment science. Mearns is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research . Mearns is the director of NCAR's Weather and Climate Impacts Assessment Science Program and head of the Regional Integrated Sciences Collective . Mearns is a lead principal investigator for the North American Regional Climate Change Program .

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Linda Mearns's Published Works

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Climate extremes: observations, modeling, and impacts. (2000) (4379)
Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) (2342)
Regional climate projections (2007) (1897)
Guidelines for Use of Climate Scenarios Developed from Statistical Downscaling Methods (2004) (1017)
The Importance of Land-Cover Change in Simulating Future Climates (2005) (1017)
Introduction to special section : Regional climate modeling revisited (1999) (972)
Approaches to the simulation of regional climate change: A review (1991) (842)
Calculation of average, uncertainty range, and reliability of regional climate changes from AOGCM simulations via the reliability ensemble averaging (REA) method (2002) (718)
Climate Change and Forest Fire Potential in Russian and Canadian Boreal Forests (1998) (693)
Quantifying Uncertainty in Projections of Regional Climate Change: A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Multimodel Ensembles (2005) (670)
Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections (2001) (605)
Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Issues Related to Modeling Extremes in Projections of Future Climate Change* (2000) (586)
A Regional Climate Change Assessment Program for North America (2009) (577)
An Introduction to Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Observations, Socioeconomic Impacts, Terrestrial Ecological Impacts, and Model Projections* (2000) (548)
Case study of the effects of atmospheric aerosols and regional haze on agriculture: an opportunity to enhance crop yields in China through emission controls? (1999) (494)
Extreme High-Temperature Events: Changes in their probabilities with Changes in Mean Temperature (1984) (483)
New Assessment Methods and the Characterisation of Future Conditions (2007) (479)
The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview of Phase I Results (2012) (448)
U.S. Agriculture and Climate Change: New Results (2003) (392)
MEAN AND VARIANCE CHANGE IN CLIMATE SCENARIOS: METHODS, AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS, AND MEASURES OF UNCERTAINTY (1997) (363)
Towards process-informed bias correction of climate change simulations (2017) (318)
Regional climate research - Needs and opportunities (2003) (264)
The effect of changes in daily and interannual climatic variability on CERES-Wheat: A sensitivity study (1996) (255)
Probability of regional climate change based on the Reliability Ensemble Averaging (REA) method (2003) (251)
Regional probabilities of precipitation change: A Bayesian analysis of multimodel simulations (2004) (240)
Good Practice Guidance Paper on Assessing and Combining Multi Model Climate Projections (2010) (239)
Climate scenario development (2001) (237)
Bayesian Modeling of Uncertainty in Ensembles of Climate Models (2009) (236)
Future population exposure to US heat extremes (2015) (229)
Guidelines for Use of Climate Scenarios Developed from Regional Climate Model Experiments (2003) (229)
Analysis of daily variability of precipitation in a nested regional climate model: comparison with observations and doubled CO2 results (1995) (217)
Adaptation: Sensitivity to Natural Variability, Agent Assumptions and Dynamic Climate Changes (2000) (210)
Comparison of climate change scenarios generated from regional climate model experiments and statistical downscaling (1999) (202)
Climate Change 2014 (2015) (180)
Emerging patterns of simulated regional climatic changes for the 21st century due to anthropogenic forcings (2001) (170)
Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers (2020) (170)
A Regional Model Study of the Importance of Local versus Remote Controls of the 1988 Drought and the 1993 Flood over the Central United States (1996) (167)
Comparison of Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change Calculated from High and Low Resolution Climate Change Scenarios: Part I. The Uncertainty Due to Spatial Scale (2001) (166)
Regional Nested Model Simulations of Present Day and 2 × CO2 Climate over the Central Plains of the U.S. (1998) (151)
Developing and applying scenarios (2001) (149)
The Influence of the North Atlantic–Arctic Oscillation on Mean, Variance, and Extremes of Temperature in the Northeastern United States and Canada (2002) (146)
Potential production and environmental effects of switchgrass and traditional crops under current and greenhouse-altered climate in the central United States: a simulation study (2000) (139)
Climate Scenarios for the Southeastern U.S. Based on GCM and Regional Model Simulations (2003) (138)
Comparative responses of EPIC and CERES crop models to high and low spatial resolution climate change scenarios (1999) (137)
A comparison of a GCM response to historical anthropogenic land cover change and model sensitivity to uncertainty in present-day land cover representations (2005) (122)
Effect of changes in interannual climatic variability on CERES-wheat yields: sensitivity and 2 × CO2 general circulation model studies (1992) (116)
Analysis of climate variability in general circulation models: Comparison with observations and changes in variability in 2xCO2 experiments (1990) (107)
Meeting Report of the Workshop on The Nature and Use of New Socioeconomic Pathways for Climate Change Research (2012) (103)
Global-Change Scenarios: Their Development and Use (2007) (102)
Spatial scales of climate information for simulating wheat and maize productivity: The case of the US Great Plains (1998) (93)
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON MISSOURI RWER BASIN WATER YIELD 1 (2001) (89)
Towards Assessing NARCCAP Regional Climate Model Credibility for the North American Monsoon: Current Climate Simulations* (2013) (87)
Simulating the impacts of climate change on cotton production in the Mississippi Delta (2002) (87)
Downscaling extremes: A comparison of extreme value distributions in point-source and gridded precipitation data (2010) (85)
Analysis of variability and diurnal range of daily temperature in a nested regional climate model: comparison with observations and doubled CO2 results (1995) (84)
Microclimate and Human Factors in the Divergent Ecology of Aedes aegypti along the Arizona, U.S./Sonora, MX Border (2010) (82)
Causes of Observed Changes in Extreme Projections of Future Changes (2008) (78)
Reliability and input-data induced uncertainty of the EPIC model to estimate climate change impact on sorghum yields in the U.S. Great Plains (2009) (78)
North American regional climate change assessment program (2005) (77)
The drama of uncertainty (2010) (77)
The Effect of Spatial Scale of Climatic Change Scenarios on Simulated Maize, Winter Wheat, and Rice Production in the Southeastern United States (2003) (77)
The Practitioner's Dilemma: How to Assess the Credibility of Downscaled Climate Projections (2013) (75)
Regional Extreme Monthly Precipitation Simulated by NARCCAP RCMs (2010) (73)
The Effects of Spatial Scale of Climate Scenarios on Economic Assessments: An Example from U.S. Agriculture (2003) (72)
Climatic change and variability. (2000) (65)
Comparison of Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change Calculated from High and Low Resolution Climate Change Scenarios: Part II. Accounting for Adaptation and CO2 Direct Effects (2001) (65)
Lessons from climate modeling on the design and use of ensembles for crop modeling (2016) (65)
Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects: Volume 1, Global and Sectoral Aspects: Working Group II Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) (65)
Investigating the Effect of Seasonal Plant Growth and Development in Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Simulations. Part I: Simulation of Surface Fluxes over the Growing Season (2001) (63)
Modeling Path Dependence in Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change (2010) (62)
Response of Soybean and Sorghum to Varying Spatial Scales of Climate Change Scenarios in the Southeastern United States (2003) (61)
The effects of climate model similarity on probabilistic climate projections and the implications for local, risk‐based adaptation planning (2015) (60)
Water yield responses to high and low spatial resolution climate change scenarios in the Missouri River Basin (2003) (60)
Expanded Decision-Scaling Framework to Select Robust Long-Term Water-System Plans under Hydroclimatic Uncertainties (2015) (54)
The impact of extreme heat on morbidity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2012) (53)
America's Climate Choices: Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change (2010) (51)
A new distribution mapping technique for climate model bias correction (2015) (51)
Investigating the Effect of Seasonal Plant Growth and Development in Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Simulations. Part II: Atmospheric Response to Crop Growth and Development (2001) (50)
Representing agriculture in Earth System Models: Approaches and priorities for development (2017) (49)
MODELING STREAMFLOW AND WATER QUALITY SENSITIVITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN 20 U.S. WATERSHEDS (2015) (47)
Spatially and temporally consistent prediction of heavy precipitation from mean values (2012) (46)
Evaluating CROPGRO‐Soybean Performance for Use in Climate Impact Studies (2003) (43)
Assessing Future Climate Risks (2004) (43)
Issues in the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture (2003) (42)
Spatial Scale Effects of Climate Scenarios on Simulated Cotton Production in the Southeastern U.S.A. (2003) (36)
Functional ANOVA and regional climate experiments: a statistical analysis of dynamic downscaling (2011) (36)
Assessing the Performance of Multiple Regional Climate Model Simulations for Seasonal Mountain Snow in the Upper Colorado River Basin (2012) (36)
The Vulnerability, Impacts, Adaptation and Climate Services Advisory Board (VIACS AB V1.0) Contribution to CMIP6 (2016) (34)
Evaluation of the Surface Climatology over the Conterminous United States in the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program Hindcast Experiment Using a Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (2013) (32)
The Uncertainty due to Spatial Scale of Climate Scenarios in Integrated Assessments: An Example from U.S. Agriculture (2004) (31)
Simulating North American Weather Types With Regional Climate Models (2019) (31)
A Mechanistically Credible, Poleward Shift in Warm-Season Precipitation Projected for the U.S. Southern Great Plains? (2017) (26)
The composite nature of physical geography (2014) (25)
Surface Temperature Probability Distributions in the NARCCAP Hindcast Experiment: Evaluation Methodology, Metrics, and Results (2015) (23)
Research Issues in Determining the Effects of Changing Climate Variability on Crop Yields (1995) (23)
Climatic change and grain corn yields in the North American Great Plains (1986) (22)
Downscaling Climate Information (2021) (22)
Use of Climate Information for Decision-Making and Impacts Research: State of Our Understanding (2016) (19)
Evaluation of large-scale meteorological patterns associated with temperature extremes in the NARCCAP regional climate model simulations (2015) (18)
Summary for Policy Makers: Working group 11 contribution to the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change (2014) (17)
The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Overview and Preliminary Analysis. (2010) (17)
Evaluation of Snow Water Equivalent in NARCCAP Simulations, Including Measures of Observational Uncertainty (2017) (15)
Regional climate change projections from NA-CORDEX and their relation to climate sensitivity (2020) (15)
Uncertainty in Agricultural Impact Assessment (2014) (15)
Specification of wet-day daily rainfall quantiles from the mean value (2012) (15)
Two case studies on NARCCAP precipitation extremes (2013) (14)
Implications of Global Warming for Climate Variability and the Occurrence of Extreme Climate Events (1993) (14)
Potential Value of Expert Elicitation for Determining Differential Credibility of Regional Climate Change Simulations: An Exercise with the NARCCAP co-PIs for the Southwest Monsoon Region of North America (2017) (14)
Building a climate service for North America based on the NA-CORDEX data archive (2021) (13)
Weighting a regional climate model ensemble: Does it make a difference? Can it make a difference? (2019) (12)
Effects of Monsoonal Fluctuations on Grains in China. Part II: Crop Water Requirements (1989) (12)
Quantifying and Diagnosing Sources of Uncertainty in Midcentury Changes in North American Snowpack from NARCCAP (2019) (12)
Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections (2021) (12)
Weather and climate: changing human exposures (2006) (11)
The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP): Overview of Phase II results (2009) (11)
Investigating the effect of seasonal plant growth and development in 3-dimensional atmospheric simulations (1999) (10)
Quantification of Uncertainties of Future Climate Change: Challenges and Applications (2010) (10)
Ch. 29: Research Needs for Climate and Global Change Assessments. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (2014) (10)
Application of a photosynthesis model to an agricultural region of varied climates: California (1981) (10)
A multivariate spatial model for soil water profiles (2006) (9)
Regional Climate Information – Evaluation and Projections Co-ordinating Lead Authors (2001) (9)
Effects of Monsoonal Fluctuations on Grains in China. Part I: Climatic Conditions for 1961–1975 (1989) (9)
Evaluating NARCCAP model performance for frequencies of severe-storm environments (2016) (8)
On the Statistical Evaluation of Climate Model Experiments; An Editorial Comment (1997) (8)
An analysis of the disagreement about added value by regional climate models (2020) (7)
Decision-Scaling: A Decision Framework for DoD Climate Risk Assessment and Adaptation Planning (2016) (6)
Observation-based blended projections from ensembles of regional climate models (2016) (6)
Response to “Uncertainty as a science policy problem” (2011) (5)
U.S. Extreme Precipitation Weather Types Increased in Frequency During the 20th Century (2021) (5)
Climate Change 2014: Technical Summary (2014) (5)
SSP‐Based Land‐Use Change Scenarios: A Critical Uncertainty in Future Regional Climate Change Projections (2020) (5)
The issue of spatial scale in integrated assessments: an example of agriculture in the Southeastern U.S (2000) (5)
The Vulnerability, Impacts, Adaptation, and Climate Services (VIACS) Advisory Board for CMIP6 (2016) (4)
Prospects for climatic change. (1990) (4)
Evaluation of the Finnish Research Programme on Climate Change SILMU. (1996) (3)
Projections of North American snow from NA-CORDEX and their uncertainties, with a focus on model resolution (2021) (3)
Pacific sea surface temperature related influences on North American monsoon precipitation within North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program models (2018) (3)
Effects of Spatial Interpolation Algorithm Choice on Regional Climate Model Data Analysis (2010) (2)
Evaluation of Climate Model Data using the Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (RCMES): Application to Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Hydrology (2013) (2)
Natural Ecosystems I. The Rocky Mountains (2003) (2)
Bias-correction of extreme temperatures and precipitation in NA-CORDEX regional climate model output (2016) (2)
The Role of International Resource Sharing Arrangements in Managing Fire in the Face of Climate Change (2022) (2)
Erratum: (Journal of Climate) (2005) (1)
The Principle of the Variety of Evidence and its Significance to Climate Science (2011) (1)
P 1 . 7 THE EFFECT OF SPATIAL SCALE OF CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS ON CROP PRODUCTION IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES (2002) (1)
Decrease in the summer rainfall of the southern United States coast and the Caribbean due to climate change (2009) (1)
Lessons from the Climate Modeling Community on the Deisgn and Use of Ensembles for Crop Modeling (2016) (1)
North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP): Producing Regional Climate Change Projections for Climate Impacts Studies (2006) (1)
Report of the workshop Great Lakes climate change impacts: Implications for environmental restoration. Held in Boulder, Colorado on April 28-29, 1992 (1993) (1)
Building Successful Partnerships Between Scientists and Educators to Bridge Scientific Research to Education and Outreach Audiences at a National Research Laboratory (2003) (1)
Erratum: Comparison of agricultural impacts of climate change calculated from high and low resolution climate change scenarios: Part I. The uncertainty due to spatial scale (Climatic Change (2001) 51 (131-172)) (2002) (1)
Final Report: A hierarchical evaluation framework for assessing climate simulations relevant to the energy-water-land nexus (2021) (1)
Past and future trends of extreme precipitation over the central United States in an ensemble of regional climate simulations (2018) (1)
US National Climate Assessment (NCA) Scenarios for Assessing Our Climate Future: Issues and Methodological Perspectives Background Whitepaper for Participants (2011) (1)
Extreme Space : Engaging and Educating the Public by Showcasing the Extremes of our Solar System (2003) (0)
Understanding Data Needs for Vulnerability Assessment and Decision Making to Manage Vulnerability of Department of Defense Installations to Climate Change (2016) (0)
The Weather and Climate Impact Assessment Science Initiative (2002) (0)
Late 20th Century Temperature Trends in the NARCCAP Regional Model Simulations (2010) (0)
Climate Storylines (2022) (0)
Comparison of Global and Regional Model Climate Changes in the NARCCAP Suite of Models (2013) (0)
An Overview of Climate Projections Performed for North America CORDEX (2017) (0)
PEANUT CROP RESPONSES TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN CORDOBA, ARGENTINA: A SIMULATION STUDY (2014) (0)
Evaluation of Statistical Downscaling Skill at Reproducing Extreme Events (2015) (0)
Does Dynamical Downscaling Matter for Climate Change Adaptation on the Colorado River? (Invited) (2010) (0)
Progress and Pitfalls in Global Change Scenario Use for Water Resources Management (2006) (0)
IPCC AR5 Working Group II Technical summary (2014) (0)
The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP): Overview of Climate Change Results (2012) (0)
Snow Water Equivalent in NARCCAP and NA-CORDEX Simulations Including Measures of Observational Uncertainty (2016) (0)
Uncertainty in the Future of Seasonal Snowpack over North America. (2017) (0)
Characterization and Quantification of Uncertainty in the NARCCAP Regional Climate Model Ensemble and Application to Impacts on Water Systems (2015) (0)
China as an Evolving Metro-Agro-Plex (China-MAP) (2002) (0)
NCAR Johns Hopkins/CDC Climate and Health Summer Institute (2005) (0)
NA-CORDEX: Overview and Sample Results (2016) (0)
Temperature Extremes and Associated Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns in NARCCAP Regional Climate Models: Towards a framework for generalized model evaluation (2014) (0)
Press 978-1108-47375-0 — Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections (0)
Climate Risk Assessment: Technical Guidance Manual for DoD Installations and Built Environment (2016) (0)
Impacts, Adaptation, Vulnerability, and Decision-Making (2021) (0)
A spatial propinquity extreme-value model for assessing large-scale process extremes in future climates (2019) (0)
Analyzing and Projecting U.S. Wildfire Potential Based on NARCCAP Regional Climate Simulations (2012) (0)
Enabling Regional Climate Model Evaluation: Combining Observations and IT to Establish Core Climate Model Assessment Capabilities (2013) (0)
Regional Climate Model Projection Credibility for the North American Monsoon (2014) (0)
The Sensitivity of Regional Climate Models to Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (2018) (0)
Demonstrating the Applicability of a Robust Decision Making (RDM) to Conservation Decision-Making Under Uncertain Future Climate (2017) (0)
Growing convergence research: Coproducing climate projections to inform proactive decisions for managing simultaneous wildfire risk. (2023) (0)
Snowpack in the NARCCAP Regional Climate Models (2013) (0)
Big Projects, Diverse Users, and Usable Data: Lessons and Examples from NARCCAP (2008) (0)
Standardization of NARCCAP Data for Automated Processing, Quality Control, and Usability (2009) (0)
Differential Credibility of Statistical and Dynamical Downscaled Future Climate Projectionsin the Southern Great Plains (2019) (0)
From Descriptive to Explanatory: Using Metrics to Identify Candidate Phenomena for Process Evaluation in NA-CORDEX and NARCCAP (2017) (0)
Lessons Learned From NARCCAP on Archiving Data and Meeting User Needs (2007) (0)
Global Climate Models (2021) (0)
Causes of Cool-Season Precipitation Bias in the East South Central U.S. (2017) (0)
Response to R. Pielke, Sr. Commentary on Mearns et al. 2012 (2013) (0)
Response to R. Pielke, Sr. Commentary on Mearns et al. 2012 (2013) (0)
Assessing Climate-Change Impacts at the Regional Scale (2021) (0)
Establishing the Scientific Value of Multiple GCM-RCM Simulation Programs: The Example of NARCCAP (2015) (0)
Sensitivity of Regional Climate Models to GCM Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (2019) (0)
CHAPTER 2 Weather and climate : changing human exposures (2006) (0)
Empirical-Statistical Downscaling (2021) (0)
How to Establish the Scientific Value of Multiple GCM-RCM Simulation Programs: An Example from NARCCAP (2014) (0)
The Sensitivity of Regional Climate Projections to SSP-Based Land Use Changes in the North American CORDEX Domain (2020) (0)
Effects of Plant Growth And Development On Interannaul Variability In Mesoscale Atmospheric Simulations (2000) (0)
Uncertainty in Future Projections, and Approaches for Representing Uncertainty (2021) (0)
NA-CORDEX: Overview and New Results (2017) (0)

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