Water Engineer
Resume:
Michael D. Dettinger
U.S. Geological Survey
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dept 0224
**** ****** *****, ** *** Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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ACADEMIC HISTORY http://tenaya.ucsd.edu/~dettinge
1977 -- BA Physics, U.C. San Diego (Revelle College)
Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
1979 -- MS Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Numerical Modeling of Aquifer Systems under Uncertainty: A Second Moment Analysis
1991 -- MS Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
1997 -- Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, advisor:
Michael
Ghil, Variations of Continental Climate and Hydrology on Diurnal -to-Interdecadal Scales
1985 Master s committee, Betsy Frick, University of Nevada, Reno
Quantitative Evaluation of Ground-water Flow in Steptoe Valley, Nevada
1986 Master s committee, Paul McBeth, University of Nevada, Reno
Hydrogeologic Significance of LANDSAT Lineaments in the Great Basin
2004 Doctoral committee, Jessica Lundquist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Diurnal Cycles of Streamflow in the Western United States
2006-pres Doctoral committee, Theresa Carpenter, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Southern California Flash Flood Frequencies and Climate Variability
2008-2009--Master s committee, Sam Haber, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Isotopes of Helium, Hydrogen and Carbon as Groundwater Tracers in Aquifers along the
Colorad o River
2009 Master s committee, Charles Briscoe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Environmental, Economic and Energy Impacts of Desalination Plants in Southern California
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
1979-81: Engineer-scientist, Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., Walnut Creek, California: Water-
resources consulting & groundwater modeling
Resource evaluations, groundwater flow/transport modeling, and water quality management
studies
for DOE nuclear-waste programs, Guam EPA, water -quality districts, and chemical
industry.
1981-89: Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Carson City, Nevada: Groundwater
Assessments of groundwater resources, flow and chemistry in bedrock and alluvial
aquifers;
groundwater modeling; regional synthesis of hydrogeologic framework and flo w systems,
eastern and
southern Great Basin; and District Groundwater Specialist, including program development
and
review, and representation of USGS to public forums, Legislature and State Engineer.
1989-90: USGS Graduate Studies Program, UCLA Atmosphe ric Sciences.
Advisor: Michael Ghil. Emphasis: Climate Dynamics.
1991-96: Research Hydrologist, California District, USGS, San Diego, CA: Hydroclimatology
Studies of sensitivity of water resources of California to interannual -decadal climate
variations and
change by analysis of historical hydroclimate and simulations of snowmelt/watershed
responses.
Analyses of freshwater-inflow variations to San Francisco Bay and Delta. Analysis of
large-scale
basis and predictability of global, hemispheric, and Western US hydroclimatic variations
using
historical and paleo-records of atmospheric circulations, trace gases, ocean
temperatures, streamflow,
ground water, and water quality. Nonlinear dynamics of land -air interactions through
planetary-
boundary layers. Co-developer of UCLA Singular-Spectrum-Analysis Toolkit, 1995.
Michael Dettinger
1996-97: Research Hydrologist, USGS, at NOAA/Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO
Study of Western Hemisphere ENSO and PDO effects on streamflow. Initial medium -range
forecasts
of Sierra Nevada snowmelt and streamflow. Developer of CDC Global Streamflow dataset.
1997-2001: Research Hydrologist, California District, USGS, & Research Associate, Climate
Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA: Hydroclimatology
Continuation of global, Western, and Sierra Nevada hydroclimatology of precipitation and
streamflow using historical and paleo-records of atmospheric circulations, ocean
temperatures,
streamflow, groundwater, and water quality. Global - to watershed -scale climate
downscaling.
Medium-range streamflow forecasting, Sierra Nevada, and long -range steamflow forecasting
nationwide. Simulations of ground -water/surface-water sensitivities to climate
variations, including
the use of remote-sensed insolation variations for NASA Earth Science Innovations
Program. DOE-
funded Accelerated Climate Prediction Initiative simulations of Sierra Nevada watershed
sensitivities
to climate changes. NOAA-funded California Applications Program (CAP) for regional
integrated
science and assessment of climate applications by water and other resource management
sectors.
2002-present: Research Hydrologist, Branch of Western Regional Research, USGS, &
Research Associate, Climate Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La
Jolla, CA: Hydroclimatology & climate change
Studies of global, Western North American, and Sierra Nevadan hydroclimatology of
precipitation,
snowpack, and streamflow using historical and paleo -records of atmospheric circulations,
ocean
temperatures, streamflow, groundwater, and water quality. Development of innovative
constructed -
analogs downscaling, component-resampling, and derived-distribution approaches as tools
for
evaluating global-change and shorter term climate predictions and their hydrologic
consequences.
Evaluation of climate-change projections for changes in western climates, large -scale
Pacific-basin
climate modes, flood statistics, streamflow and ground -water recharge. Development and
implementation of new and innovative hydrometeorological monitoring method s, Yosemite
National
Park. Continuations of climate -service assessment activities within CAP, and extension
to State -
funded California Climate Change Center. Co-designer of Enhanced Flood Response and
Emergency
Preparedness Program networks for California . Team leader for extreme winter storm
scenario
development, USGS multi-hazards evaluation program.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Department of Interior Superior Service Award, 2005, for exceptional contributions to
hydroclimatology in the USGS. Assistant Research Advisor, USGS Surface-Water Hydrology
Discipline, 2009-2010. USGS Global Change Strategic Science Planning Team, 2010- .
Science Technical Committee, Devils Postpile National Monument General Management
Plan, 2010-. Ecological Water Use Work Group, USGS National Water Census
Implementation Plan, 2009. USGS national panel, Report to Congress on a Program for
Periodic Assessments of the Nation s Water Availability, Fall 2001 and Summer 2003
(origins
of the new USGS Water Census Program). Review panel, USGS Geologic Division s Multi -
disciplinary workshops on the arid southwest funding program, 2000 -2001. National-level
Internal Review Team for USGS Water Resources Division Strategic Plan, October 1997.
Science Steering Group for US Global Water Cycle Program, 2004-. Steering Committee,
CLIVAR Climate Predictions Applications Postdoctoral Program, 2008 -. NOAA s CCSP
Committee for Science & Assessment Product 5.3 ( Decision support and evaluations on
seasonal to interannual forecasts and observation s), 2006-2008. USGS representative, US
Climate-Change Science Program Observations Working Group, 2002 -2006.
California Department of Water Resources Climate Science Service Award, 2007.
California
Water Plan Update Climate Change Technical Advisory Gro up, 2008-2009. Project
st
management team, California Department of Water Resources 21 Century Observations,
Modeling and Decision Support Systems for Enhanced Flood Response and Emergency
Preparedness Program, 2008- . Contributor, California Environmental Protection Agency
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Indicators of Climate Change in California report, 2008. Central Valley Flood
Management
Planning Program Climate-Change Scope Definition Working Group, 2009- . Lecturer,
Two-day NOAA Climate Training for California DWR, June 2009.
Climate Change Advisor, CALFED Bay-Delta Program, 2006-2009. Editor, CALFED State of
Bay-Delta Science Report, 2007 -2008. Member, CALFED Water -Management Science Board,
2004-2005. Organizer and co-chair, Climate and CALFED sessions, First to Fifth Biennial
CALFED Science Conferences, Sacramento, CA, 2000 -2008.
NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards,
2007 and 2009, for articles on atmospheric rivers and floods on the West Coast (articles
#50
and #61 below). Initiator, USGS/NOAA collaborative research on high -frequency stable-
isotope variations in landfalling Pacific storms, 2006-2008. Co-leader, Meteorology -
Design
Team, USGS MultiHazards ARkStorm Emergency -Preparedness Project, 2008-11. External
review team, Quantitative Precipitation Estimates for NWS/Office of Hydrological
Development Distributed Model Intercomparison (DMIP -2) Project, 2009.
Venice Sustainability Advisory Panel, Venice, Italy, UC San Diego Environment and
Sustainability Initiative, 2008-09. Steering committee, UCSD-Cambridge University Climate
Change and Water Resources of California, Himalaya & Africa Workshops, 2008 -2009.
Contributing author, First Urban Climate Change Research Network ( UCCRN) Assessment
Report on Climate Change in Cities (A RC3), 2008-2009. Contributing author, Seasonal -to-
Interannual Climate Forecast Needs--Users Perspectives, World Climate Conference 3,
2009.
Executive committee, National Phenological Network Implementation Team, 2005 -2007.
Reviewer, National Intelligence Estimate, Geopolitical Implications of Climate Change,
2007.
Program chair & fundraiser, Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshops, 1998-2004.
Founding member, CIRMOUNT Western Mountain Climate Sciences Consortium, 2002- .
Organizing committees, Mountain Climate Sciences Symposium, 2004, and MTNCLIM
Workshops, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010.
Vice President s National Performance Review Award, 1996, for leadership in Mojave
Desert
Ecosystems planning efforts. USGS Water Resources representative to DOI /DOD
interagency Mojave Desert Ecosystem Initiative, and Leader of the Physical Sciences
Subgroup of Mojave Desert Science-Data Management Interagency Working Group, 1995 -96.
Invited speaker, Global Implications of Climate Change for Water Supplies, National
Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium on the Role of Science in Solving the World s
Emerging Water Problems, Irvine, 2004. Co-chair for NASA Working Group on Climate
Responses to Direct Solar Forcings, 2000.
Hydroclimate representative, USGS National Ground-water Climate-Response Network
Design Committee, 1995-97. Convener of sessions on Natural Variations of Groundwater at
Fall AGU Meeting, 2000. Climate group co-leader, National Research Council Committee on
Hydrologic Science s Workshop on Gr oundwater Fluxes across Interfaces, Green Bay, 2002.
Moderator, California Water Education Foundation Climate Briefings, 2003, 2007, 2009.
Associate Editor, Water Resources Research, 1998 -2000. Assistant Editor, Journal of
Hydrometeorology, 2010-2011.
Consulting Editor, Odyssey Magazine (children s science magazine), Taking the Earth s
Temperature: Too Hot or Not? issue, 1996.
Professional Societies: American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society;
American Association for Advancem ent of Science; Ecological Society of America.
Some recent collaborators: Dave Peterson, Jim Verdin, Alan & Lori Flint, USGS; Dan
Cayan,
Hugo Hidalgo, Tapash Das, SIO; Mike Healey & Steve Culberson, CALFED; Jessica
Lundquist, UW; Ed Maurer, Santa Clara U .; Mike Anderson, CA DWR; Henry Diaz, NOAA
CDC; Connie Millar, USFS; Marty Ralph & Paul Neiman, NOAA ESRL; Dave Stahle, U.
Arkansas Treering Lab; Sam Earman, DRI; Levi Brekke, USBR; Joan Florsheim & Bill Reisen,
UC Davis; Chris Funk, UCSB; Frank Gehrke, Ca lif. Cooperative Snow Surveys.
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
REFEREED PAPERS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
GOVERNMENT REPORTS
1. U.S. Department of the Interior, 1985, A proposed program to study the water resources
of
the carbonate-rock system of eastern and southern Nevada: joint U.S. Geological Survey --
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation report, 14 p.
2. Dettinger, M.D., 1987, Ground -water quality and geochemistry of Las Vegas Valley,
Clark
County, Nevada, 1981-83: Implementation of a monitoring network: U.S. Geological Survey
Water-Resources Investigations Report 87 -4007, 69 p.
3. Dettinger, M.D., and Van Denburgh, A.S., 1988, U.S. Geological Survey ground -water
studies in Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Open -File Report 88-119, 2 p.
4. Dettinger, M.D., 1989, Distribution of carbonate -rock aquifers in southern Nevada and
the
potential for their development--Summary of findings, 1985-88: Special Summary
Publication of the Nevada Carbonate Aquifers Program, 20 p.
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5. Dettinger, M.D., 1992, Geohydrology of areas being considered for exploratory drilling
and
development of the carbonate-rock aquifers in southern Nevada -- Preliminary assessment:
U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 90 -4077, 35 p.
6. Schaefer, D.H., Morris, T.M., and Dettinger, M.D., 1992, Hydrologic and geophysical
data
for selected wells and springs in the Sheep Range area, Clark and Lincoln counties,
Nevada:
U.S. Geological Survey Open -File Report 89-425, 26 p.
7. Dettinger, M.D., Harrill, J.R., Schmidt, D.L., and Hess, J.W., 1995, Distribution of
carbonate -
rock aquifers and the potential for their development, Southern Nevada and parts of
Arizona, California, and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Water -Resources Investigations
Report 91-4146, 100 p.
8. Dettinger, M.D., and Schaefer, D.H., 1996, Hydrogeology of structurally extended
terrain in
the eastern Great Basin of Nevada, Utah, and adjacent states from geologic and
geophysical
models: U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic -Investigations Atlas HA-694-D, 1 sheet.
9. Jeton, A.E., Dettinger, M.D., and Smith, J.L., 1996, Potential effects of climate
change on
streamflow, eastern and western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada: U.S.
Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 95 -4260, 44 p.
10. Morgan, D.S., and Dettinger, M.D., 1996, Ground -water conditions in Las Vegas
Valley,
Clark County, NV: 2, Hydrogeology and simulation of ground -water flow: US Geological
Survey Water-Supply Paper 2320-B, 124 p.
11. Thomas, J.M., Welch, A., & Dettinger, M.D., 1996, Geochemistry and isotope hydrology
of
representative aquifers in the Great Basin region of Nev ada, Utah, and adjacent states:
USGS
Professional Paper 1409-C, 100 p.
12. U.S. Geological Survey, 2002, Concepts for national assessment of water availability
and use:
U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1223, 34 p.
13. Dettinger, M.D., 2002, Documentation of methods used to project climate scenarios for
the
next 50 years for the Santa Clara -Calleguas basin (appendix 3), in Hanson, R.T., Martin,
P.,
and Koczot, K.M., Simulation of ground -water/surface-water flow in the Santa Clara -
Calleguas ground-water basin, Ventura county, California: U.S. Geological Survey Water
Resources Investigations Report 02 -4136, p. 194-200.
14. Peterson, D.H., Smith, R.E., Hager, S., Huber, K., Dettinger, M., and DiLeo, J, 2003,
Alpine
hydroclimatology Exploring the mystery of salinity change in portions of the Stanislaus
and Merced Rivers: U.S. Geological Survey Open -File Report.
15. Brabets, T.P., and Whitman, M.S., 2004, Water -quality, biological, and physical-
habitat
conditions at fixed sites in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska, National Water -Quality
Assessment
Study Unit, October 1998-September 2001, Section 4 (Climate of the Cook Inlet Basin):
U.S.
Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004 -5021,
16. Dettinger, M.D., 2005, Changes in streamflow timing in the western United States
during
recent decades: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2005 -3018, 4 p.
17. Koczot, K.M., Jeton, A.E., McGurk, B., and Dettinger, M.D., 2005, Precipitation -
runoff
processes in the Feather River basin, northeastern California, with prospects for
streamflow
predictability: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004 -5202, 82 p.
18. CIRMOUNT Executive Committee, 2006, Mapping New Terrain Report of the Consortium
for Integrated Mountain Climate Research in Western Mountains (CIRMOUNT): Misc. Pub.
PSW-MISC-77, Albany, CA, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, USDA, 29 p.
19. Funk, C., Brown, M., Choularton, R., Verdin, J., and Dettinger, M., 2008, Recent
drought
tendencies in Ethiopia and equatorial-subtropical Eastern Africa: Famine Early Warning
System NET Vulnerability to Food Insecurity--Factor Identification and Characterization
Report 02/2008, 9 p.
20. Healey, M., Dettinger, M., and Norgaard, R., 2008, State of the science for the Bay -
Delta
system-Summary for policymakers and the public: CALFED Scien ce Program report, 19 p.,
http://science.calwater.ca.gov/publications/sbds.html .
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21. Healey, M., Dettinger, M., and Norgaard, R. (eds.), 2008, The state of Bay -Delta
science,
2008: CALFED Science Program, 174 p.
http://science.calwater.ca.gov/publications/sbds.html .
22. Mantua, N., Dettinger, M., Pagano, T., Wood, A., Redmond, K., and Restrepo, P., 2008,
A
description and evaluation of hydrologic and climate forecast and data products that
support decision-making for water resources managers (Chapter 2), in Beller -Simms, N.,
Ingram, H., Feldman, D., Mantua, N., Jacobs, K., and Waples, A., Decision -support
experiments and evaluations using seasonal to interannual forecasts and observational
data A focus on water resources: A report by the US Climate Change Science Program
(Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.3) and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research,
pp. 29-64 (also report Appendices A and B).
23. Mazur, L., and Milanes, C., (eds.), 2009, Indicators of climate change in California:
California
EPA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment report, 196 p.
24. Central Valley Flood Management Planning Program Climate Chang e Scope Definition
Work Group, 2010, 2012 Central Valley Flood Protection Plan--Climate Change Scope
Definition Work Group Summary Report: California Department of Water Resources Flood
Safe Report, 76 p.
Dettinger, M.D., Ralph, F.M., Hughes, M., Das, T., and Neiman, P., in review, Building an
extreme Pacific winter storm scenario for emergency preparedness exercises in California:
USGS Scientific Investigations Report, 50 p.
Duffy, C., Avissar, R., Dahm, C., Dettinger, M., Hack, J., Marks, D., Miller, M.,
Pulwarty, R.,
Ralph, F.M., Roos, M., and Tague, C., in preparation, Towards an integrated observing
platform for the terrestrial water cycle From bedrock to boundary layer: Science
Steering
Group white paper for US Climate Change Program Global Water Cycle Working Group, 57
p.
PUBLISHED FORECASTS
1. Dettinger, M.D., Cayan, D.R., and Redmond, K.T., 1999, United States streamflow
probabilities based on forecasted La Nina, winter -spring 2000: December 1999
Experimental
Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin, Center for La nd-Ocean-Atmosphere Studies, 8(4), 57 -61.
2. Dettinger, M.D., Cayan, D.R., McCabe, G.J., and Redmond, K.T., 2000, Winter -spring
2001
United States streamflow probabilities based on anticipated neutral ENSO conditions and
recent NPO status: September 2000 Experimental Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin, Center for
Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Studies, 9(3), 55 -60.
3. Westerling, A.L., Cayan, D.R., Gershunov, A., Dettinger, M.D., and Brown, T., 2001,
Statistical forecast of the 2001 Western Wildfire Season using canonical corre lation
analysis:
Experimental Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin, Center for Land -Ocean-Atmosphere Studies,
10(1), 71-75.
4. Dettinger, M.D., Cayan, D.R., and Redmond, K.T., 2002, United States streamflow
probabilities and uncertainties based on anticipated El Nino, water year 2003:
Experimental
Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin, Center for Land -Ocean-Atmosphere Studies, 11(3), 46 -52.
OTHER PAPERS AND REPORTS
1. Wilson, J.L., Kitanidis, P.K., and Dettinger, M.D., 1978, State and parameter
estimation in
groundwater models, in Chiu, C.L. (ed.), Applications of Kalman filter to hydrology,
hydraulics, and water resources: Stochastic Hydraulics Program, University of Pittsburgh,
657-679.
2. Wilson, J.L., and Dettinger, M.D., 1978, Steady state vs. transient parameter
estimation in
groundwater systems: Verification of mathematical and physical models in hydraulic
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engineering, Proc. ASCE Hydraulics Speciality Conf., College Park, Maryland, 112 -119.
3. Dettinger, M.D., 1979, Numerical modeling of aquifer systems under uncertainty: A se
cond
moment analysis: S.M. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 137 p.
4. Wilson, J.L., and Dettinger, M.D., 1979, Tables of the "sensitivity" integral, Z(u,b)=
Incomplete integral of {1/b(1 - exp(-y-b2 ))dy} : Massachusetts Institute of Technolo gy,
Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Hydrodynamics Technical Note 21, 22 p.
5. Dettinger, M.D., Lutz, H.F., and Murray, W.A., 1980, Deep geologic isolation of
nuclear
waste: Numerical modeling of repository -scale hydrology: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
report FIN#A-0277, 99 p.
6. Evenson, D.E., and Dettinger, M.D., 1980, Dispersive processes in models of regional
radio -
nuclide migration: Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., (CDM) report#9071 -2-R2 to Lawrence
Livermore Laboratory, 131 p.
7. Evenson, D.E., and Dettinger, M.D., 1980, An evaluation of Hemet-San Jacinto Water
Reclamation Facility disposal plans: CDM report to Eastern Municipal Water District, 60
p.
8. Dettinger, M.D., 1981, Mathematical modeling of groundwater flow and chemical
transport
in the vicinity of Occidental Chemical Company, Lathrop, CA: CDM report to California
Water Quality Control Board, 78 p.
9. Barton, C. C.; Hsieh, P. A.; Angelier, J.; Bergerat, F.; Bouroz, C.; Dettinger, M. D.;
Weeks, E.
P., 1989, Physical and hydrologic -flow properties of fractures: Las Vegas, Nevada-Zion
Canyon, Utah-Grand Canyon, Arizona-Yucca Mountain, Nevada: 28th International
Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook, 36 p.
10. Chen, S.C., Cayan, D.R., Roads, J.O., and Dettinger, M., 1992, A numerical simulation
of
cool/wet and warm/wet episodes in the Western United States, in Redmond, K.T., (ed.),
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop, March 10 -13, 1991:
California Department of Water Resources, Interagency Ecological Studies Program
Technical Report 31, 173-178.
11. Dettinger, M.D., and Ghil, Michael, 1992, Interannual and interdecadal variability of
surface -
air temperatures in the United States: Proceedings of 16th Annual NOAA Climate
Diagnostics Workshop, Lake Arrowhead, Cal., October 28 -November 1, 1991, 209-214.
12. Dettinger, M.D.and Cayan, D.R., 1992, Climate -change scenarios for the Sierra
Nevada,
California, based on winter atmospheric -circulation pattern: Proceedings, 1992 American
Water Resources Association Annual Symposium and Conference, Managing Water
Resources under Global Change, Reno, Nev., 681 -690.
13. Pupacko, A., Dettinger, M.D., Duell, L.F., Jeton, A.E., and Smith, J.L., 1992,
Potential effects
of climate change on surface-water resources of two high mountain watersheds in the
western United States: Proceedings of USGS-Japan Joint Workshop on Effects of Global
Climate Change on Hydrology and Water Resources in a Catchment Scale, Tsukuba, Japan,
275-286.
14. Guetter, A.K., Georgakakos, K.P., Dettinger, M.D., and Cayan, D.R., 1993, U.S. o
utflow
variability and anomaly patterns: Preprints, American Meteorological Society Conference
on Hydroclimatology, 158-159.
15. Dettinger, M.D., Cayan, D.R., and McCabe, G.J., Jr. 1994, Decadal trends in runoff
over the
Western United States and links to per sistent North Pacific SST and atmospheric-
circulation
patterns: Proceedings, 18th NOAA Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Boulder, CO, November
1-5, 1993, 240-243.
16. McCabe, G.J., Legates, D.R., and Dettinger, M.D., 1994, Relations between 700 -
millibar
height anomalies and April 1 snowpack accumulations in the Western United States:
Proceedings, 18th Annual NOAA Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Boulder, CO, November
1-5, 1993, 252-255.
17. Dettinger, M.D., Cayan, D.R., and Peterson, D.H., 1995, Sierra Nevada runoff into San
Francisco Bay--Why has it come earlier recently?: Interagency Ecological Studies Program
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for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary Newsletter, Summer 1995, 1 -3
(http://water.wr.usgs.gov/climate/).
18. Dettinger, M.D., and Schaefer, D.S., 1995, Decade -scale hydroclimatic forcing of
ground-
water levels in the central Great Basin, eastern Nevada: Proc., American Water Resources
Association Symposium, Water Resources and Environmental Hazards: Emphasis on
Hydrologic and Cultural Insight in the Pacific Rim, 195-204.
19. Peterson, D.H., Dettinger, M.D., Cayan, D.R., DiLeo, J., Riddle, L., and Smith, R.E.,
1996,
River salinity variations in response to discharge: Examples for the Western United
States
during the early 1900 s: Proceedings, 12th Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop,
1995, 146-153.
20. Cayan, D.R., Peterson, D.H., Peterson, D.H., Riddle, L., Dettinger, M.D., and Smith,
R., 1997,
The spring runoff pulse from the Sierra Nevada: Interagency Ecosystem Program for the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary Newsletter, Summer 1997, 25 -28
(http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~dettinge/pulse/ ).
21. Dettinger, M.D., 1997, Variations of continental climate and hydrology on diurnal -to-
interdecadal time scales: Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, Department
of
Atmospheric Sciences, 240 p.
22. Dettinger, M.D., 1997, Coping with severe and sustained drought in the Southwest, in
Impact of Climate Change and Land Use in the Southwestern United States: A Web -based
symposium for the Udall Policy Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az, July 1997
(http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/natural/codrought/).
23. Dettinger, M.D., and Ghil, M., 1997, Marine and terrestrial influences o n
interannual CO2
variations at Mauna Loa and the South Pole: Preprints, American Meteorological Society
8th
Symposium on Global Change Studies, Long Beach, Cal., February 1997, 36 -37.
24. Dettinger, M.D., Peterson, D.H., Diaz, H.F., and Cayan, D.R., 1997, For ecasting
spring runoff
pulses from the Sierra Nevada: Interagency Ecosystem Program for the Sacramento -San
Joaquin Estuary Newsletter, Summer 1997, 32-35
(http://water.wr.usgs.gov/forecast/prediction.html).
25. Peterson, D.H., Dettinger, M.D., Cayan, D.R., Smi th, R., Riddle, L., and Knowles,
N., 1997,
What a difference a day makes: Spring snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada: Interagency
Ecosystem Program for the Sacramento -San Joaquin Estuary Newsletter, Summer 1997, 16 -
19.
26. Reynolds, R., Dettinger, M., Cayan, D., St ephens, D., Highland, L., and Wilson, R.,
1997,
Effects of El Nino on streamflow, lake level, and landslide potential: A Web -based
symposium for the Udall Policy Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az, July 1997
(http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/natural/elnino).
27. Dettinger, M.D., and Redmond, K., 1998, Workshop assesess 1997 -98 El Nino from
Pacific
climate perspectives: Eos, Trans. American Geophysical Union, 79, 430 -431.
28. Cayan, D.R., Peterson, D.H., Riddle, L., Dettinger, M.D., and Smith, R., 1999, The
spring
runoff pulse from the Sierra Nevada: Preprints, American Meteorological Society s 14th
Conference on Hydrology, Dallas, January 1999, 77 -79.
29. Dettinger, M.D., Mo, K., Cayan, D.R., and Jeton, A.E., 1999, Global to local scale
simulations
of streamflow in the Merced, American, and Carson Rivers, Sierra Nevada, California:
Preprints, American Meteorological Society s 14th Conference on Hydrology, Dallas,
January 1999, 80-82.
30. McCabe, G.J., Jr., and Dettinger, M.D., 1999, Variability in the relations between
ENSO and
precipitation in the western United States: Proceedings, Fifteenth Annual Pacific Climate
(PACLIM) Workshop, Two Harbors, Cal., April 1998, 69-78.
31. Pandey, G.R., Cayan, D.R., Dettinger, M.D., and Georgakakos, K.P., 1999, Downscaling
of
precipitation distributions within the Sierra Nevada from global atmospheric fields:
Preprints, American Meteorological Society s 14th Conference on Hydrology, Dallas,
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January 1999, 87-89.
32. Peterson, D.H., Smith, R.E., Dettinger, M.D., Cayan, D.R., and Riddle, L., 1999, An
organized
signal in snowmelt runoff over the west: Proc., Specialty Conference on Potential
Consequences of Climate Variability and Changes to Water Resources of the United States,
American Water Resources Association, 129 -137.
33. Koczot, K.M., and Dettinger, M.D., 1999, Comparisons of simulated and remotely sensed
snow-cover observations, Sierra Nevada: Proceedings, 1999 Western Snow Conference,
South Lake Tahoe, April 1999, 4 p.
34. Dettinger, M.D., Cayan, D.R., and Brown, T.J., 2000, Intraseasonal lightning
variations in the
western United States: Proceedings, 24th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction
Workshop, Tucson, AZ, Nov 5 -9 1999, 57-60.
35. McCabe, G.J., and Dettinger, M.D., 2000, North Pacific modulation of ENSO
teleconnections
with winter precipitation in the western United States: Proceedings, International
Workshop
on River Environments considering Hydraulic and Hydrologic Phenomena in Snowy and
Cold Regions, Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil
Engineering,
Quebec, Canada, p. 7-11.
36. Peterson, D.H., Smith, R.E., Dettinger, M.D., and Cayan, D.R.,2000, Forecasting
spring
discharge in the West: A step toward forecasting stream chemistry, in D.W. Morganwalp
and H.T. Buxton, eds., Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Contamination of Hydrologic
Systems and Related Ecosystems, Charleston, SC, March 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Water
Resources Investigations Report 99 -4018B, 8 p.
37. Sprigg, W.A., 2000, Preliminary report NASA Workshop on Sun Climate Connections:
Section 4, Direct Solar Forcing of Climate (M. Dettinger and C. Frohlich, chairs and
authors): University of Arizona, Tucson, March 2000.
(http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/conferences/sunmeet/Prelim_report_41100.htm)
38. White, W.B., Dettinger, M.D., Cayan, D.R., 2000, Gl obal average upper ocean
temperature
response to changing solar irradiance: Exciting the internal decadal mode. SOLSPA
Euroconference, Proceedings: The solar cycle and terrestrial climate, Santa Cruz de
Tenerife,
Spain.
39. Cayan, D.R., Dettinger, M.D., Caprio, J.M., Kammerdiener, S.A., and Peterson, D.H.,
2001,
Reply to Comments on Changes in the Onset of Spring in the Western United States by
D.Lilly: Bull., American Meterological Society, 82, 2265 -2266.
40. Dettinger, M.D., 2001, Droughts, epic droughts & dr oughty centuries--Lessons from
California s paleoclimatic record: Interagency Ecological Studies Program for the San
Francisco Estuary Newsletter, Summer 2001, 51 -53.
41. McCabe, G.J., and Dettinger, M.D., 2001, Primary modes and predictability of year -to-
year
snowpack variations in the western United States from teleconnections with Pacific Ocean
climate: Eighteenth Annual PACLIM Workshop, Pacific Grove, 47 -56.
42. Cayan, D. R., Tyree, M.K., and Dettinger, M.D., 2002, Climate linkages to female
Culex Cx.
tarsalis abundance in California: Proc. Mosquito Vector Control Association of
California. 10,
15-19.
43. Dettinger, M., 2002, Floods, droughts, and planning for San Francisco Bay --A Sierra
Nevada
perspective: Science & strategies for restoration San Francisco Bay Sacramento-San
Joaquin
River Delta Estuary (State of the Estuary 2002), p. 19.
44. Redmond, K.T., Stahle, D.W., Therrell, M.D., Cayan, D.R., and Dettinger, M.D., 2002,
400
years of California Central Valley precipitation reconstructed from blue oaks: Preprints,
American Meteorological Society 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate
Variations, 3.2, 5 p.
45. Cayan, D.R., VanScoy, M., Dettinger, M., and Helly, J., 2003, The wireless watershed
at the
Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve: Southwest Hydrology, 2, 18 -19.
46. Dettinger, M.D., Bennett, W.A., Cayan, D.R., Florsheim, J., Hughes, M., Ingram, B.L.,
Jassby,
14
Michael Dettinger
A., Knowles, N., Malamud, F., Peterson, D.H., Redmond, K., and Smith, L., 2003, Climate
science issues and needs of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program: American Meteor ological
Society, 83rd Annual Meeting, Impacts of Water Availability Symposium, Long Beach, CA,
Feb. 2003, 7.11-1 to 7.11.4.
47. Koczot, K.M., and Dettinger, M.D., 2003, Climate effects of Pacific Decadal
Oscillation on
streamflow of the Feather River, California: Proceedings, Western Snow Conference, 4 p.
48. Lundquist, J.D., and Dettinger, M.D., 2003, Linking diurnal cycles in river flow to
interannual variations in climate: American Meteorological Society, 83rd Annual Meeting,
th
17 Conference on Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, J2.4-1 to J2.4-5.
49. Committee on Hydrologic Science, 2004, Interactions of groundwater with climate:
Chapter
3, in Groundwater fluxes across interfaces : National Academies Press, 32 -41.
50. Dettinger, M.D., 2004, From climate -change spaghetti to climate-change distribution:
Aspen
Global Change Institute, Proc. Climate Scenarios and Projections The known, the
unknown and the unknowable as applied to California, 14 p.
51. Dettinger, M.D., 2004, Fifty -two years of pineapple-express storms across the West
Coast of
North America: California Energy Commission PIER Energy -Related Environmental
Research Report CEC-500-****-***, 15 p.
52. Dettinger, M., D. R. Cayan,, N. Knowles, A. Westerling, and M. K. Tyree. 2004. Recent
projections of 21st century climate chang e and watershed responses in the Sierra Nevada.
In
Murphy, Dennis, and P. A. Stine, eds. Proc. of the Sierra Nevada Science Symposium: U.S.
Forest Service Pacific Southwest Res. Sta. GTR -193. pp. 43-46.
53. Dettinger, M.D., Redmond, K.T., and Cayan, D.R., 200 4, Winter orographic-
precipitation
ratios in the Sierra Nevada Atmospheric circulations and hydrologic consequences: Proc.,
NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Pr
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