Statistical Analsysis:

Much of our research entails knowledge-discovery through statistical analysis. As part of this work, I helped lead the Grantham Institute's Statistics of Climate Change Initiative (SoCCI), which seeks to to build a functioning, interdisciplinary community within Imperial College that can help address a broad range of issues dealing with the statistics of climate change. In our own research, our novel application of stochastic daily-precipitation models has helped us to identify inter-annual to multi-decadal changes in seasonal-mean precipitation and extreme events that can only be attributed to systematic, climate-induced variations in the background state of the observed system. We are also using advanced multivariate statistical techniques to identify causal linkages within the coupled ocean-atmosphere and atmosphere-biosphere systems. Further, we are developing new techniques to identify linear and non-linear responses of the global climate system to anthropogenic forcing

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)

Gianotti, D. , B.T. Anderson, and G.D. Salvucci, 2012: What do rain gauges tell us about rainfall’s predictability? J. Climate (in review)

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.

Furtado, J.C. , E. Di Lorenzo, B.T. Anderson, and N. Schneider, 2011: Linkages between the North Pacific Oscillation and central tropical Pacific SSTs at low frequencies, Clim. Dyn., DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1245-4

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 23, 1937–1944.

Di Lorenzo, E., K.M. Cobb, J.C. Furtado, N. Schneider, B.T. Anderson, A. Bracco, M.A. Alexander, and D. Vimont 2010: Central Pacific El Niño and decadal climate change in the North Pacific, Nature – Geophys., 3, 762

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. and Wang, J, S. Gopal, and G. Salvucci 2009: Influence of daily rainfall characteristics upon regional summertime precipitation over the southwestern U.S. J. Hydrometeor., 10, 1218-1230.

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.

Anderson, B.T., 2007 Intra-seasonal atmospheric variability in the extra-tropics and its relation to the onset of tropical Pacific sea-surface temperature anomalies, J. Climate, 20, 1593-1599

Anderson, B.T., 2007: On the joint role of subtropical atmospheric variability and equatorial subsurface heat content anomalies in initiating the onset of ENSO events, J. Climate, 20, 926-936

Wang, W., B.T. Anderson, D. Entekhabi, D. Huang, R. K. Kaufmann, C. Potter, and R. B. Myneni, 2007: Intraseasonal Interactions between Temperature and Vegetation over the Boreal Forests. Earth Interactions, 11, Art. No. 18

Anderson, B.T. and E. Maloney, 2006: Interannual Tropical Pacific Sea-Surface Temperatures and Preceding Sub-Tropical North Pacific Sea Level Pressure Anomalies in the NCAR CCSM2.0, J. Climate, 19, 998-1012.

Wang, W., B.T. Anderson, D. Entekhabi, D. Huang, R. K. Kaufmann, C. Potter, and R. B. Myneni, 2006: Feedbacks of Vegetation on Summertime Climate Variability over North American Grasslands: 1. Statistical Analysis. Earth Interactions, 10, Art. No. 17

Wang, W., B.T. Anderson, N. Phillips, D. Entekhabi, R. K. Kaufmann, D. Huang, C. Potter, and R. B. Myneni, 2006: Feedbacks of Vegetation on Summertime Climate Variability over North American Grasslands: 2. A Coupled Stochastic Model. Earth Interactions, 10, Art. No. 16

Zhang, P., B.T. Anderson, B. and R. B. Myneni, 2006: Monitoring 2005 corn-belt yields from space, EOS., 87 (15), 150.

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.

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

Anderson, B.T., 2004: Investigation of a large-scale mode of ocean/atmosphere variability and its relation to tropical Pacific sea-surface temperature anomalies, J. Climate, 17, 4089-4098

Wang, W., B. T. Anderson, R. K. Kaufmann, and R. B. Myneni, 2004: The relation between the North Atlantic Oscillation and SSTs in the North Atlantic basin. J. Climate, 17, 4752-4759

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

Anderson, B.T., 2003: Tropical Pacific sea-surface temperatures and preceding sea-level pressure anomalies in the subtropical North Pacific, J. Geophys. Res. 108, Art. No. 4732

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