| Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains BI Cook, TR Ault, JE Smerdon Science advances 1 (1), e1400082, 2015 | 1763 | 2015 |
| Global warming and 21st century drying BI Cook, JE Smerdon, R Seager, S Coats Climate dynamics 43 (9), 2607-2627, 2014 | 1251 | 2014 |
| Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia Nature geoscience 6 (5), 339-346, 2013 | 1117 | 2013 |
| Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought AP Williams, ER Cook, JE Smerdon, BI Cook, JT Abatzoglou, K Bolles, ... Science 368 (6488), 314-318, 2020 | 1034 | 2020 |
| Twenty‐first century drought projections in the CMIP6 forcing scenarios BI Cook, JS Mankin, K Marvel, AP Williams, JE Smerdon, KJ Anchukaitis Earth's Future 8 (6), e2019EF001461, 2020 | 948 | 2020 |
| Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021 AP Williams, BI Cook, JE Smerdon Nature Climate Change 12 (3), 232-234, 2022 | 794 | 2022 |
| Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014 AP Williams, R Seager, JT Abatzoglou, BI Cook, JE Smerdon, ER Cook Geophysical Research Letters 42 (16), 6819-6828, 2015 | 687 | 2015 |
| European summer temperatures since Roman times J Luterbacher, JP Werner, JE Smerdon, L Fernández-Donado, ... Environmental research letters 11 (2), 024001, 2016 | 465 | 2016 |
| Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean JE Tierney, JE Smerdon, KJ Anchukaitis, R Seager Nature 493 (7432), 389-392, 2013 | 410 | 2013 |
| Detection of human influence on a new, validated 1500-year temperature reconstruction GC Hegerl, TJ Crowley, M Allen, WT Hyde, HN Pollack, J Smerdon, ... Journal of Climate 20 (4), 650-666, 2007 | 370 | 2007 |
| Projected drought risk in 1.5 C and 2 C warmer climates F Lehner, S Coats, TF Stocker, AG Pendergrass, BM Sanderson, ... Geophysical Research Letters 44 (14), 7419-7428, 2017 | 353 | 2017 |
| Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence K Marvel, BI Cook, CJW Bonfils, PJ Durack, JE Smerdon, AP Williams Nature 569 (7754), 59-65, 2019 | 352 | 2019 |
| Relative impacts of mitigation, temperature, and precipitation on 21st-century megadrought risk in the American Southwest TR Ault, JS Mankin, BI Cook, JE Smerdon Science Advances 2 (10), e1600873, 2016 | 268 | 2016 |
| Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century MS Morales, ER Cook, J Barichivich, DA Christie, R Villalba, C LeQuesne, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (29), 16816-16823, 2020 | 245 | 2020 |
| Mid-latitude freshwater availability reduced by projected vegetation responses to climate change JS Mankin, R Seager, JE Smerdon, BI Cook, AP Williams Nature Geoscience 12 (12), 983-988, 2019 | 244 | 2019 |
| Revising midlatitude summer temperatures back to AD 600 based on a wood density network L Schneider, JE Smerdon, U Büntgen, RJS Wilson, VS Myglan, ... Geophysical Research Letters 42 (11), 4556-4562, 2015 | 239 | 2015 |
| A reconstruction of global hydroclimate and dynamical variables over the Common Era NJ Steiger, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, BI Cook Scientific data 5 (1), 1-15, 2018 | 222 | 2018 |
| The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations JH Jungclaus, E Bard, M Baroni, P Braconnot, J Cao, LP Chini, T Egorova, ... Geoscientific Model Development 10 (11), 4005-4033, 2017 | 219 | 2017 |
| Climate models as a test bed for climate reconstruction methods: pseudoproxy experiments JE Smerdon Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 3 (1), 63-77, 2012 | 205 | 2012 |
| Pan-continental droughts in North America over the last millennium BI Cook, JE Smerdon, R Seager, ER Cook Journal of Climate 27 (1), 383-397, 2014 | 198 | 2014 |
Richard SeagerLamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia UniversityVerified email at ldeo.columbia.edu
