| Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America R Seager, M Ting, I Held, Y Kushnir, J Lu, G Vecchi, HP Huang, N Harnik, ... Science 316 (5828), 1181-1184, 2007 | 2748 | 2007 |
| Thermodynamic and dynamic mechanisms for large-scale changes in the hydrological cycle in response to global warming R Seager, N Naik, GA Vecchi Journal of climate 23 (17), 4651-4668, 2010 | 899 | 2010 |
| Modeling of tropical forcing of persistent droughts and pluvials over western North America: 1856–2000 R Seager, Y Kushnir, C Herweijer, N Naik, J Velez Journal of climate 18 (19), 4065-4088, 2005 | 491 | 2005 |
| Is the Gulf Stream responsible for Europe's mild winters? R Seager, DS Battisti, J Yin, N Gordon, N Naik, AC Clement, MA Cane Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society: A journal of the …, 2002 | 401 | 2002 |
| Causes of the 2011–14 California drought R Seager, M Hoerling, S Schubert, H Wang, B Lyon, A Kumar, ... Journal of Climate 28 (18), 6997-7024, 2015 | 397 | 2015 |
| Projections of declining surface-water availability for the southwestern United States R Seager, M Ting, C Li, N Naik, B Cook, J Nakamura, H Liu Nature Climate Change 3 (5), 482-486, 2013 | 397 | 2013 |
| Strengthening tropical Pacific zonal sea surface temperature gradient consistent with rising greenhouse gases R Seager, M Cane, N Henderson, DE Lee, R Abernathey, H Zhang Nature Climate Change 9 (7), 517-522, 2019 | 396 | 2019 |
| Northern Hemisphere winter snow anomalies: ENSO, NAO and the winter of 2009/10 R Seager, Y Kushnir, J Nakamura, M Ting, N Naik Geophysical research letters 37 (14), 2010 | 288 | 2010 |
| Wind-driven shifts in the latitude of the Kuroshio–Oyashio Extension and generation of SST anomalies on decadal timescales R Seager, Y Kushnir, NH Naik, MA Cane, J Miller Journal of Climate 14 (22), 4249-4265, 2001 | 281 | 2001 |
| Mexican drought: an observational modeling and tree ring study of variability and climate change R Seager, M Ting, M DAVIS, M CANE, N NAIK, J NAKAMURA, C Li, ... Atmósfera 22 (1), 1-31, 2009 | 259 | 2009 |
| Climatology, variability, and trends in the US vapor pressure deficit, an important fire-related meteorological quantity R Seager, A Hooks, AP Williams, B Cook, J Nakamura, N Henderson Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 54 (6), 1121-1141, 2015 | 258 | 2015 |
| Mechanisms of tropical Atlantic SST influence on North American precipitation variability Y Kushnir, R Seager, M Ting, N Naik, J Nakamura Journal of Climate 23 (21), 5610-5628, 2010 | 242 | 2010 |
| Causes of Atlantic Ocean climate variability between 1958 and 1998 R Seager, Y Kushnir, M Visbeck, N Naik, J Miller, G Krahmann, H Cullen Journal of Climate 13 (16), 2845-2862, 2000 | 239 | 2000 |
| An ocean model's response to North Atlantic Oscillation‐like wind forcing M Visbeck, H Cullen, G Krahmann, N Naik Geophysical research letters 25 (24), 4521-4524, 1998 | 213 | 1998 |
| Hurricanes and climate: the US CLIVAR working group on hurricanes KJE Walsh, SJ Camargo, GA Vecchi, AS Daloz, J Elsner, K Emanuel, ... Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 96 (6), 997-1017, 2015 | 205 | 2015 |
| Diagnostic computation of moisture budgets in the ERA-Interim reanalysis with reference to analysis of CMIP-archived atmospheric model data R Seager, N Henderson Journal of Climate 26 (20), 7876-7901, 2013 | 202 | 2013 |
| Air–sea interaction and the seasonal cycle of the subtropical anticyclones R Seager, R Murtugudde, N Naik, A Clement, N Gordon, J Miller Journal of climate 16 (12), 1948-1966, 2003 | 195 | 2003 |
| Causes of increasing aridification of the Mediterranean region in response to rising greenhouse gases R Seager, H Liu, N Henderson, I Simpson, C Kelley, T Shaw, Y Kushnir, ... Journal of Climate 27 (12), 4655-4676, 2014 | 192 | 2014 |
| Whither the 100th meridian? The once and future physical and human geography of America’s arid–humid divide. Part II: the meridian moves east R Seager, J Feldman, N Lis, M Ting, AP Williams, J Nakamura, H Liu, ... Earth Interactions 22 (5), 1-24, 2018 | 182 | 2018 |
| Does global warming cause intensified interannual hydroclimate variability? R Seager, N Naik, L Vogel Journal of Climate 25 (9), 3355-3372, 2012 | 182 | 2012 |
Yochanan KushnirLamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia UniveristyVerified email at ldeo.columbia.edu