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GERSHUNOV, ALEXANDER

Associate Research Scientist

Degrees:

• Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Interests:

• Climate dynamics
• Meteorology and hydroclimate
• Climate and weather extremes
• Climate - society interactions

Honors and Awards:

• NASA Global Change Research Fellow, 1992–1995
• Korein Foundation Research Grants, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
• Rotary Foundation International Teaching Grant, 2004

Gershunov, A. and D. Cayan, 2008: California heat waves: July 2006 and recent history. Journal of Climate, in review.

Ben Ari, T., A. Gershunov, T. Rouyer, B. Cazelles, K.L. Gage, N.Ch. Stenseth, 2008: Human plague in the United States: the importance of regional and local climate. Biology Letters, accepted.

Kozubowski, T.J., A.K. Panorska, F. Qeadan and A. Gershunov, and D. Rominger, 2008: Testing exponentiality versus Pareto distribution via likelihood ratio. Communications in Statistics, in press.

Favre, A. and A. Gershunov, 2008: North Pacific cyclonic and anticyclonic transients in a global warming context: possible consequences for Western North American daily precipitation and temperature extremes. Climate Dynamics, in press.

White, W.B., A. Gershunov, J.L. Annis, 2008: Climatic influences on Midwest drought during the 20th century. Journal of Climate, 21, 517-531.

Gershunov A. and H. Douville, 2008: Extensive summer hot and cold extremes under current and possible future climatic conditions: Europe and North America. In: H. F. Diaz and R. J. Murnane (Eds.), Climate Extremes and Society. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 74-98.

Panorska, A.K., A. Gershunov and T.J. Kozubowski, 2007: From diversity to volatility: Probability of daily precipitation extremes. In: A. Tsonis and J. Elsner (Eds.), Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences, Springer, New York, pp. 465-484.

Favre, A. and A. Gershunov, 2006: Extra-tropical cyclonic/anticyclonic activity in North-Eastern Pacific and air temperature extremes in Western North America. Climate Dynamics, 26, 617-629.

Alfaro, E., A. Gershunov and D.R. Cayan, 2006: Prediction of summer maximum and minimum temperature over the Central and Western United States: The role of soil moisture and sea surface temperature. Journal of Climate. 19, 1407-1421.

Alfaro, E., D.W. Pierce, A. Steinemann and A. Gershunov, 2005: Relationships Between the Irrigation Pumping Electrical Loads and the Local Climate in Climate Division 9, Idaho. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 44, 1972–1978.

White, W.B., A. Gershunov, J.L. Annis, G. McKeon and J. Syktus, 2004: Forecasting Australian drought using southern hemisphere modes of sea surface temperature variability. International Journal of Climatology. 24, 1911-1927.

Alfaro, E., A. Gershunov, D.R. Cayan, A. Steinemann, D.W. Pierce and T.P. Barnett, 2004: A method for prediction of California summer air surface temperature. Eos. 85. 553, 557-558.

Gershunov, A. and R. Roca, 2004: Coupling of latent heat flux and the greenhouse effect by large-scale tropical/subtropical dynamics diagnosed in a set of observations and model simulations. Climate Dynamics, 22, 205-222.

Gershunov, A. and D. Cayan, 2003: Heavy daily precipitation frequency over the contiguous United States: Sources of climatic variability and seasonal predictability. Journal of Climate, 16, 2752-2765.

Westerling, A.L., A. Gershunov, T. Brown, D. Cayan, and M. Dettinger, 2003: Climate and wildfire in the western United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84, 595-604.

Westerling, A.L., A. Gershunov, D.R. Cayan and T.P. Barnett, 2002: Long lead statistical forecasts of area burned in western U.S. wildfires by ecosystem province. Int. Journal of Wildland Fire, 11, 257-266.

Gershunov, A., N. Schneider and T. Barnett, 2001: Low frequency modulation of the ENSO-Indian monsoon rainfall relationship: Signal or noise. Journal of Climate, 14, 2486-2492.

Biondi, F., A. Gershunov and D. Cayan, 2001: North Pacific decadal climate variability since AD 1661. Journal of Climate, 14, 5-10.

Gershunov, A., T. Barnett, D. Cayan, T. Tubbs and L Goddard, 2000: Predicting and downscaling ENSO impacts on intraseasonal precipitation statistics in California: the 1997-1998 event. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 1, 201-209.

Gershunov, A., T. Barnett and D. Cayan, 1999: North Pacific interdecadal oscillation seen as factor in ENSO-related north American climate anomalies. Eos, 80, 25-30.

Gershunov, A. and T. Barnett, 1998: Inter-decadal modulation of ENSO teleconnections. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 79, 2715-2725.

Gershunov, A., 1998: ENSO influence on intraseasonal extreme rainfall and temperature frequencies in the contiguous US: Implications for long-range predictability. Journal of Climate, 11, 3192-3203.

Gershunov, A. and T. Barnett, 1998: ENSO influence on intraseasonal extreme rainfall and temperature frequencies in the contiguous US: observations and model results. Journal of Climate, 11, 1575-1586.

Gershunov, A., J. Michaelsen and C. Gautier, 1998: Large-Scale Coupling Between the Tropical Greenhouse Effect and Latent Heat Flux via Atmospheric Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 6017-6031.

Gershunov, A. and J. Michaelsen, 1996: Climatic-Scale Space-Time Variability of Tropical Precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 26297-26307.

Gershunov, A. and J. Michaelsen, 1996: Vertical Variability of Water Vapor in the Midlatitude Upper Troposphere. Contributions to Atmospheric Physics, 69, 205-214.