Michael D. Dettinger

U.S. Geological Survey

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Dept 0224

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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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