Global to Regional Climate Change:

Much of our research has involved analyzing global-to-regional numerical model systems in order to study regional climate variability and its societal impacts. Research in this area has led to the development of new methods for identifying non-linear evolutions in regional climate-change parameters such as water availability, ecosystem health, and extreme event occurrences, which in turn have important consequences for local and regional planning activities. We have also developed a stochastic modeling framework to better understand the impacts of a 2 °C increase in global mean temperatures upon local occurrences of hot extremes. In addition, as part of a 40-person research consortium, we are helping to diagnose statistically and numerically down-scaled projections of future climate change and its impacts upon socio-economic sectors in New England. Additional research has focused on evaluating, quantifying and diagnosing regional climate change impacts upon vegetation.

Publications:

Pal, I., B.T. Anderson, G.D. Salvucci, and Gianotti, D. 2012: Magnitude and significance of observed trends in precipitation frequency over the U.S. Science (submitted)

Xu. L, R.B. Myneni, B.T. Anderson, et al., 2012: Diminishing seasonality over northerly lands from anthropogenic forcing of climate, Nature-Geoscience. (in review).

Anderson, B.T., J.R. Knight, M.A. Ringer, J.-H. Yoon, and A. Cherchi, 2012: Testing for the possible influence of unknown climate forcings upon global temperature increases from 1950-2000, J.Climate, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00645.1.

Anderson, B.T. 2011: Intensification of seasonal extremes given a 2°C global warming target, Climatic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0213-7

Anderson, B.T. 2011: Near-term increase in frequency of seasonal temperature extremes prior to the 2 °C global warming target, Climatic Change Letters. DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0196-4.

Anderson, B.T., J.R. Knight, M.A. Ringer, C. Deser, A.S. Phillips, J.-H. Yoon, and A. Cherchi, 2011: Climate forcings and climate sensitivities diagnosed from atmospheric global circulation models, Clim. Dyn., DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0798-y.

Anderson, B.T., Hayhoe, K., and X.-Z. Liang, 2010: Anthropogenic-induced changes in 21st Century summertime hydroclimatology of the Northeastern U.S., Climatic Change. 99, 403-423

Zhang, P., B.T. Anderson, and R. B. Myneni, 2010: Application of a satellite-based climate-variability impact index for crop yield forecasting in drought-stricken regions, African J. of Plant Sci. 4, 82-94.

Anderson, B.T., J. Wang, G. Salvucci, S.Gopal, and S. Islam, 2010: Observed trends in summertime monsoon precipitation over the southwestern United States, J. Climate (Early Release)

Anderson, B.T., C. Reifen and R. Toumi, 2009: Identification of non-linear behavior in transient climate change projections of soil moisture over the United States, Earth Interactions, 13, 1-13.

Anderson, B.T., C. Reifen§ and R. Toumi, 2009: Consistency in global climate change model predictions of regional precipitation trends, Earth Interactions. 13, DOI: 10.1175/2009EI273.1.

Hayhoe, K., C.P. Wake, B.T. Anderson, et al.. 2008. Regional climate change projections for the Northeast U.S., Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 13, 425-436

Hayhoe, K., C. Wake, B.T. Anderson et al., 2007: Past and future changes in climate and hydrological indicators in the U.S. Northeast, Clim. Dyn. DOI 10.1007/s00382-006-0187-8

Ozdogan, M., G. Salvucci, and B.T. Anderson, 2006: Examination of the Bouchet-Morton complementary relationship using a mesoscale climate model and observations under a progressive irrigation scenario, J. Hydrometeor., 7, 235-251.

Lotsch, A., M.A. Friedl, B.T. Anderson, and C.J. Tucker, 2005: Response of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Recent Northern Hemispheric Drought, Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L06705, doi:10.1029/2004GL022043

Zhang, P., B.T. Anderson, B. Tan, D. Huang and R. B. Myneni, 2005: Potential monitoring of crop yield using a satellite-based climate variability impact index, Agricultural and Forest Meteor., 131, 344-358.

Zhang, P., B.T. Anderson, M. Barlow, B. Tan, and R. B. Myneni, 2004: Climate related vegetation characteristics derived from MODIS LAI and NDVI, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D20105, doi:10.1029/2004JD004720

Buermann, W. and Anderson, B.T., C.J. Tucker, R.E. Dickinson, W. Lucht, C.S. Potter, and R.B. Myneni, 2002: Interannual covariability in Northern Hemisphere air temperatures and greenness associated with El Nino-Southern Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation, J. Geophys. Res. 108, Art. No. 4396.

Lotsch, A., M.A. Friedl, B.T. Anderson, and C.J Tucker, 2003: Coupled vegetation-precipitation variability observed from satellite and climate records. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 10.1029/2003GL017506