CAS People | Kevin Trenberth

Introduction

Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth is a Distinguished Senior Scientist in the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. From New Zealand, he obtained his Sc. D. in meteorology in 1972 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a lead author of the 1995, 2001 and 2007 Scientific Assessment of Climate Change reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize which went to the IPCC. He served from 1999 to 2006 on the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and he chaired the WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel from 2004 to 2010 and chaired the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) scientific steering group from 2010-2013 (member 2007-14); and chaired the 2014 7th International Scientific Conference on the Global Water and Energy Cycle Committee.

He has also served on many national committees. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In 2000 he received the Jule G. Charney award from the AMS; in 2003 he was given the NCAR Distinguished Achievement Award; in 2013 he was awarded the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, and he received the Climate Communication Prize from AGU. He edited a 788 page book Climate System Modeling, published in 1992 and has published 543 scientific articles or papers, including 62 books or book chapters, and over 257 refereed journal articles. On Google Scholar, there are over 54,295 citations and an H index of 100 (100 papers have over 100 citations). He has given many invited scientific talks as well as appearing in a number of television, radio programs and newspaper articles. He is listed among the top 20 authors in highest citations in all of geophysics.

Education

Sc.D Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972

B.Sc HONS First Class Mathematics
University of Canterbury, 1966

Achievements

Media Highlights

NCAR Explorer Series: What's Up with El Nino?

Fact, Not Opinion: Climate Change Is Happening & Is Caused by Human Activities

The Conversation: Does global warming mean more or less snow?

Experts explore whether climate change is causing extreme weather

Climate Protagonists Together: Judith Curry and Kevin Trenberth

Ted Talk: 2013 Seattle Science Festival: Kevin Trenberth

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Media, Blogs, Testimony, etc.

Yes, we can do 'sound' climate science even though it's projecting the future, The Conversation. US Edition, 5 April 2017
Experts respond to Trump’s climate blitzkrieg, Bull. Atomic Scientists,Dawn Stover, multiple contributions, 29 March 2017
Has climate change really improved U.S. weather?, The Conversation, US Edition, 22 April 2016
What’s going on with El Nino? [Description], Invited speaker NCAR Explorer Series public Lecture, Mesa Lab, NCAR, Boulder, CO, 20 and 23 January 2016
The hottest year on record signals that global warming is alive and well, The Conversation, 20 January 2016
What North America can expect from El Nino, The Conversation, January 4 2016
Fact, Not Opinion: Climate Change Is Happening and Is Caused by Human Activities, The Blog, The Huffington Post, 3 December 2015
Is the global warming ‘hiatus’ over?, The Conversation, 13 August 2015
Study predicts multi-meter sea level rise this century, but not everyone agrees, The Conversation, 23 July 2015
Does global warming mean more or less snow?, The Conversation, 30 January 2015
Freezing on East Coast? Blame a Super Typhoon and Maybe Global Warming, 19 November 2014
Where is global warming's missing heat?, 17 November 2014
'A Glimmer Of Hope': How Scientists Are Reacting To Obama's Climate Deal With China, 12 November 2014
What caused the ‘pause’ in global warming?, The Conversation, 29 October 2014
What Will Winter Hold for Drought-Plagued California?, 23 October 2014
Global Warming Hoax Errors: 5 Skeptics Proven Wrong, 23 October 2014
The global warming pause, 16 October 2014
Conflicting ocean studies renew a scientific argument over a warming 'pause', 7 October 2014
Mystery of Ocean Heat Deepens as Climate Changes, 7 October 2014
The "heat went to the oceans" excuse and Trenberth’s missing heat is AWOL – deep ocean has not warmed since, 6 October 2014
If a Tree Falls in the Forest, But No Scientist Says So... 3 October 2014
Climate Fueled Some of 2013's Most Extreme Events, 29 September 2014
Boulder researcher: 2013's flood-triggering rains not caused by climate change, 29 September 2014
West Coast warming linked to naturally occurring changes, 24 September 2014
The Wall Street Journal Publishes Long-Debunked Myths To Promote Climate Inaction, 22 September 2014
The Wall Street Journal downplays global warming risks once again, 22 September 2014
Here's How Global Warming Is Already Worsening Extreme Deluges In The U.S., 9 September 2014
Climate Change Ups Odds of a Southwest Megadrought, 29 August 2014
A Closer Look at Turbulent Oceans and Greenhouse Heating, 26 August 2014
Unpacking unpaused global warming - climate models got it right, 25 August 2014
Is Atlantic holding Earth's missing heat?, 22 August 2014
Surface warming 'hiatus' could stick around for another decade, say scientists, 21 August 2014
'Hiatus' in surface warming is upping the odds of UK cold winters, say scientists, 17 August 2014
Clayton Sandell via World News, 13 August 2014
New Study Sees Atlantic Warming Behind a Host of Recent Climate Shifts, 3 August 2014
June set a new global temperature record, 1 August 2014
Scientists lambast The Australian for misleading article on deep ocean cooling, 30 July 2014
Nate Silver's Embattled Climate Author Leaves FiveThirtyEight, 29 July 2014
7th GEWEX: Scientists still puzzled over last uncertainties global water cycle, 16 July 2014
How El Niño fuels storms along the Pacific coast of the Americas, 10 July 2014
May was Earth's warmest on record, NOAA says. Will 2014 set a record,too?, 24 June 2014
Could 2014 Become the Warmest Year on Record?, 23 June 2014
Dispelling myths and silently shaping progress: What consensus means to climate scientists, 23 June 2014
Waves in the Atmosphere Fueling Extreme Weather, 22 June 2014
The Turning Point: New Hope for the Climate. It's time to accelerate the shift toward a low-carbon future, 18 June 2014
Global Warming Playing a Role in Australia’s Record Heat, 6 June 2014
Climate scientists generally express approval for proposed EPA carbon rule, 2 June 2014
Weird Winter: Is the Pacific to, 22 May 2014
Global Warming Linked to Frigid U.S. Winter, Scientist Says, 22 May 2014
The Balkans' flooding is linked to climate change. And here's how, 19 May 2014
Eight Pseudoscientific Climate Claims Debunked by Real Scientists, 16 May 2014
El Niño Is Coming Back, 15 May 2014
We're 'In' Global Warming Now, 15 May 2014
Looks Like Rain Again. And Again, 12 May 2014
Big Question: This Year's El Niño: How Big? How Destructive?, 7 May 2014
Global warming: Who pressed the pause button?, 8 March 2014
2.5 hour interview with Anja Taylor, 7 March 2014
ABC News: Interview on the Return of El Nino with Clayton Sandell, 6 March 2014
Clarifying the Discussion about California Drought and Climate Change, 6 March 2014
An Obama Advisor Is Attacking Me for Testifying That Climate Change Hasn't Increased Extreme Weather, 5 March 2014
At Issue: Role of Arctic Sea Ice Melt in Mid-Latitude Cold Extremes, 5 March 2014
Holdren rebuttal of comments on his Congressional testimony, 4 March 2014
Nature Climate Change News Feature | Pacific puzzle: Scientists have offered numerous explanations for the recent slowdown in global surface warming. Now, one study suggests that tropical trade winds may hold the answer. Nature Climate Change, Vol 4, March 2014, pp 167-169
Topic: Extreme weather 1 Hour live interview program, also with John Abraham, 26 February 2014
[Audio] Is the Arctic Really Drunk, or Does It Just Act Like This Sometimes? The biggest debate in climate science may be over whether global warming will create more winters like this one. If you care about weather, you'd better care about the outcome, 21 February 2014
Hotwhopper Kevin Trenberth's microwaves are disgusting... [Archives], 20 February 2014
Accounting for global warming requires looking at the oceans Separating natural and human influences on the climate a Herculean task, 20 February 2014
Scientists: Don't make "extreme cold" centerpiece of global warming argument, 20 February 2014
Experts explore whether climate change is causing extreme weather. Climate Matters. Interview by Ryan Warner of Kevin E Trenberth and Roger Pielke Jr on climate extremes. Colorado Public Radio. Broadcast several times, 17 February 2014
Global Warming, Winter Weather and the Olympics - Five Leading Climate Scientists Weigh in, 14 February 2014
Study: El Nino can be predicted earlier, 11 February 2014
Louisville-based climate group tracks surging summer heat: Organization's numbers for Fort Collins are mirrored by increase in Boulder, 9 February 2014
Interview with German Public Radio "Deutschlandfunk" daily science broadcast "Forschung aktuell" On the hiatus. Volker Mrasek; for broadcast, 10 February 2014
The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization | More Extremely Hot Days and Heat Waves in Fort Collins "When temperatures increase in summer, as observed in Colorado and around the world, it has consequences for drought, wild fires, pine beetle and other pests, and water demand," said Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. "The effects on humans and ecosystems can be devastating, as we have experienced in recent years. The analysis by RMCO helps provide a very useful perspective on this vital issue of climate change from human activities," Trenberth said, 3 February 2014
Global warming continues and won't be stopped by wishful thinking, 2 February 2014
Aspen and the End of Snow Can America's greatest mountain town save itself, and the rest of us, from global warming? February 2014
Warming oceans consistent with rising sea level and global energy imbalance, 29 January 2014
Live Science: Obama Declares Climate Change a 'Fact': Now What?, January 29, 2014
Euractiv: EU sets out 'walk now, sprint later' 2030, 23 January 2014
Believe It: Global Warming Can Produce More Intense Snows, 21 January 2014
Climate Change Could Double Likelihood of Super El Ninos, 19 January 2014
Climate change could spawn more frequent El Ninos What happens during El Nino, 19 January 2014
US cold snap fuels climate debate Links are tenuous between Arctic warming and the extreme cold weather caused by a weak 'polar vortex', 8 January 2014
NBC Nightly News | Anne Thompson interview, 8 January 2014
Inside the warming hiatus A 15-year pause for some regions and seasons, but not in the ocean, 8 January 2014
Article An apparent hiatus in global warming?, Earth's Future, 2013 featured on "Faculty of 1000" F1000Prime, 8 January 2014
Live TV: Weather? Global Warming? Climate Change? 'Polar Vortex' Top Story for TV Programs ... and Grist for New Yale Forum Video (Peter Sinclair). Blanket 24/7 media coverage of the short but frigid 'Polar Vortex' temperatures -- climate change? global warming? -- provides a cornucopia of material for this month's 'This is Not Cool' video, 8 January 2014
Everything You Wanted To Know About The 'Polar Vortex', 6 January 2014
World Have Your Say, Live interview on BBC on Climate change, host Chloe Tillet, 11:30 MST, 6 January 2014
2013 was a good year for climate science, but a mixed bag for climate policy, 31 December 2013
Global Warming has Not Stopped, 23 December 2013
Global warming will intensify drought, says new study, 23 December 2013
Still Uncertain: Climate Change's Role in Drought, 20 December 2013
Research: Shortfalls in precipitation data skew climate scientists' drought predictions , 20 December 2013
A burning question: Why don't climate scientists sound more worried?, 16 December 2013
When Scientists Get Sued, 13 December 2013
NCAR Scientist Trenberth, U.K. Economist Stern Communications Prize Winners, 11 December 2013
Global warming is unpaused and stuck on fast forward, new research shows A new paper shows that global warming has continued over the past decade, and been manifested in different ways, 10 December 2013
Global Warming Pause Due To Pacific Says Trenberth, 8 December 2013
Global warming hasn't stopped but looks different due to climate variability -- study, 6 December 2013
Blog: Q and A: Untangling the science on climate change and tropical storms, 18 November 2013
One hour radio program: KYGT, FM, Interview with Randy Wheelock, 16 November 2013
PLAN Jeffco meeting "The Next 40 years of Jeffco Open Space Conservation" public meeting "The science of climate change: From global to local". Jeffco County Fairgrounds, 16 November 2013
30 min interview with Paul Huttner, Minnesota Public Radio, KNOW, 91.1 FM, 15 November 2013
Haiyan and climate change, 15 November 2013
Why did Earth's surface temperature stop rising in the past decade?, 8 November 2013
Top Climatologist Slams Science Magazine For Getting The Extreme Weather Story Very Wrong, 8 November 2013
How media pushed climate change 'pause' into the mainstream, 4 November 2013
Boulder climate change experts encouraged by Obama's actions Executive order on preparing for extreme events seen as move in right direction, 2 November 2013
What's in a name? Would 'the pause' by any other name help climate scientists communicate?, 1 November 2013
Pacific Ocean warming faster than it has in 10,000 years, study finds Quote: "The ocean has a tremendous amount of heat capacity. It's very slow and ponderous in responding to climate change and it's always trying to catch up to changes that are occurring at the surface," said Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1 November 2013
James Taylor misleads on hurricane claims, discounts Sandy victims, 1 November 2013
The next superstorm: Preparing for extreme weather, 26 October 2013
Artic: Is 'missing heat' in the Greenland Sea?, 8 October 2013
Who Created the Global Warming "Pause"? How climate skeptics and the media—with a little inadvertent help from scientists themselves-forged a misleading narrative, 7 October 2013
Top Climate Scientists Assess Latest Report from U.N. Panel, 3 October 2014
Scientists Call for Overhaul of IPCC, 30 September 2013
Time to change how the IPCC reports?, The Conversation, 28 September 2013
Final verdict coming on Friday: Humans caused global warming, 27 September 2013
Boulder, bulle verte en Amerique, OlivierDessibourg, Le Temps, 25 September 2013
Were Colorado floods result of global warming? Probably not. (+video) The statistics for the storm that produced the Colorado floods are stunning. But there was a very similar storm in 1938, suggesting nature can surprise even without human help, 25 September 2013
Study: Climate change pumps up risk of severe storms, 24 September 2013
Did Climate Change Worsen the Colorado Floods? While attributing a single disaster to climate change remains challenging, scientists say we should expect more extreme rainfall events like this one in the future, 18 September 2013
Fox Equates Faux UN Climate Report With The Real Thing, 18 September 2013
Ahead of IPCC Climate Report, Skeptic Groups Launch Global Anti-Science Campaign Leading scientists will soon tell the world they're 95% certain that humans are driving global warming. Skeptics are busy trying to sow any doubt, 8 September 2013
Global Warming Is Very Real Scientists are fighting deniers with irrefutable proof the planet is headed for catastrophe, 12 September 2013
No slowdown in global warming, 4 September 2013
Scientists call for overhaul of UN 'blockbuster' climate reports, 4 September 2013
Kevin Trenberth, PhD: Look Out the Window, Global Warming Signs Are Here, 30 August 2013
Another Fib Created by the Echo Chamber of Climate Change Denial, 30 August 2013
Global warming and oceans: what are the known unknowns? The world's leading oceanography experts examine global warming and the oceans in Abraham et al., 29 August 2013 |
Study Ties Global Warming 'Hiatus' to Pacific Cooldown, 28 August 2013
Is Global Warming Really Slowing Down? Skeptics say global warming is over. They're wrong, 28 August 2013
New study: Pacific Ocean is key to what's causing surface warming "hiatus", 28 August 2013
Who is on which 'side' in the climate debate, anyways?, 24 August 2013
Kevin Trenberth: Ocean will eat global warming for next 20 years, 23 August 2013
Climate Protagonists Together ... but not Face-to-Face. Judith Curry and Kevin Trenberth: Equal Time on NPR, 28 August 2013
The 'Consensus' View: Kevin Trenberth's Take On Climate Change, 23 August 2013
Boulder NCAR scientists say new climate report not finalized, 21 August 2013
Major commentary on something I said, 21 August 2013
Hurricane enable: How climate change is mixing up bigger, badder storms, 21 August 2013
IPCC report more certain global warming is caused by humans impacts speeding up, 16 August 2013
Did the clean air act unleash atlantic hurricanes?, 24 July 2013
Ocean Science: Heating the Deep Ocean This is the second time our article has been picked as an "editor's choice"; so it has been picked by two different editors. I'll bet it has never happened before. So this is in the latest Science magazine out today. As greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere increase, the resulting heat warms not only the atmosphere but also the oceans. However, temperature increases at the sea surface and in the upper ~700 m of the oceans stalled in the 2000s. Recent modeling and observational studies have suggested that the deep ocean has taken up the heat, particularly at depths between 700 and 2000 m. However, regular, spatially homogenous ocean temperature data are only available since 2003 from the Argo ocean observing system, complicating comparison with earlier data sets. Balmaseda et al. used a new observation-based reanalysis of the ocean to investigate how the heat content has changed over the period from 1958 to 2009. They provide evidence for an overall warming trend, punctuated by cooling episodes that can be attributed to volcanic eruptions. The massive 1997–1998 El Nino event also had a noticeable cooling impact. In the past decade, the deep ocean has continued to warm, whereas temperatures in the upper 300 m have stabilized; the ocean as a whole has continued to warm at an increasing rate. The qualitative warming patterns persisted when Argo data were removed. The authors attribute the changing heat distribution to changes in surface winds, particularly an intensification of the trade winds in subtropical gyres. Geophys. Res. Lett. 40, 1754 (2013), 19 July 2013
Warmists Mann Oreskes Santer more to whine about being criticized at AGU conference, 16 July 2013
Warming in deep ocean may be unprecedented, scientists say, 15 July 2013
Lost heat. Why has the warming slowed, 11 July 2013
What the Scientists Have to Say: Dr. Kevin Trenberth on Climate Change, 25 June 2013
Climate consensus 97 percent, 20 June 2013
Two Expert – and Diverging – Views on Arctic’s Impact on Weather ‘Whiplash’, 19 June 2013
Explaining the Global Warming Hiatus: Grappling with climate-change nuance in a toxic political environment, 18 June 2013
2013 Seattle Science Festival Closing Night: Kevin Trenberth, 15 June 2013
Trenberth's missing trends, 14 June 2013
Global warming appears to have slowed lately. That's no reason to celebrate, 14 June 2013
Tornado Earth Juice, 30 May 2013
Sandy reopened debate on climate change and hurricanes, 30 May 2013
Is More Global Warming Hiding in the Oceans?, 29 May 2013
Trenberth: global warming is here to stay whichever way you look at it, 25 May 2013
Seeking Clarity on Terrible Tornadoes in a Changing Climate, 23 May 2013
Global warming is here to stay, whichever way you look at it, The Conversation, 23 May 2013
Has global warming stalled?, 21 May 2013
Climate: Senate Dems link deadly tornado to warming; scientists say it's complicated. "It's quite possible that there is a small climate change component in there, but it is also clear that that is hard to say with any certainty," said Kevin Trenberth of the Climate Analysis Section at the USA National Center for Atmospheric Research. Trenberth said that while warmer water in the Gulf of Mexico is clearly adding to the amount of moisture in the air and the rainfall accompanying the thunderstorm in which the tornado is embedded, it is less clear what effect it may be having on the force of the winds that do the most damage. If warming does contribute to tornadoes, it may be an addition of only 5 or 10 percent, he said. However, that would amplify the destructive power by a factor of 15 to 30 percent. Part of the uncertainty in measuring that effect is that there are other factors that explain an uptick in tornadoes measured in recent years, including better tracking technology and more people living in tornado-affected areas, he said, 21 May 2013
New Research Confirms Global Warming Has Accelerated, 23 March 2013
"Hurricane Sandy mixes super-storm conditions with climate change", The Conversation, 28 October 2012
Wall? What wall?, Dot Earth, The New York Times, 17 August 2008
Models can be useful tools for planning ahead: A response to Thomas Chase: 'A caution to policymakers: climate models fail key tests for accuracy', Ogmius, 22 pp 2-3, Summer 2008
An update on human-induced climate change, The U. S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, The United States Senate, Room 406 of the Dirksen Senate Building, 10:00AM, 22 July 2008
Are we good stewards of the planet Earth?, Graduation address to Bridge School, Boulder Daily Camera, 30 May 2008
"Experts Debate Global Warming", Trenberth responds to Gray, Fort Collins Forum, 19 February 2008
Atlantic hurricanes and global warming, Google News, 23 January 2008
Mike Rosen: Mostly wrong on warming, Rocky Mountain News, 24 October 2007
Growing threats to climate, Google News, 23 October 2007

On Thin Ice. It's unequivocal, it's already here, San Diego Union Tribune, 11 March 2007

Climate report on deadline, Denver Post Perspective, 18 February 2007

Research

Kevin Trenberth has been prominent in all aspects of climate variability and climate change research and is a leader in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments and in the World Climate Research Programme. Recently his primary research has focused on the global energy and water cycles and how they are changing.

"The environment in which all storms form has changed owing to human activities"
Kevin Trenberth, 2011 on attribution of extremes to climate change

His work mainly involves empirical studies and quantitative diagnostic calculations. Trenberth is a primary advocate for the need to develop a climate information system that is an imperative for adaptation to climate change. He has evaluated many datasets and been the primary promoter of the need to reanalyze global data into fields in ways that meet climate requirements for continuity and consistency.

Research topics include:

Interannual variability of climate and El Niño
Climate change and global warming
The heat and energy cycles
The water cycle and atmospheric moisture budget
The mass of the atmosphere
Datasets and reanalysis
The global climate observing system
Hurricanes and climate change

Presentations

50 Shades of climate change, April 2017
Insights into Earth's Energy Imbalance from multiple sources, June 2016
Attribution of extreme climate events, May 2016

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Presentations

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Invited keynote presentation, "50 Shades of climate change", Rocky Mountain Chapter of ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) technical conference Lakewood, CO, April 28 2017 (slightly modified and with degraded graphics), note size 36 MB. Powerpoint Presentation

Invited keynote plenary talk, “Insights into Earth's Energy Imbalance from multiple sources”, 50th Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Congress, Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 29-2 June, 2016. Powerpoint Presentation

Invited talk, "Attribution of extreme climate events", 50th Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Congress, Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 29-2 June, 2016. Powerpoint Presentation

Invited keynote talk to 2016 Boulder Climate Leaders Workshop, "Global Warming is Alive and Well (not that this is a good thing)", Downtown Boulder, CO, 28 April 2016. Powerpoint Presentations (29.4 MB)

Invited public lecture, "Climate disruption in the U.S.: The fifty shades of climate change" North Jersey Public Policy lecture, Ramapo College of NJ, Mahwah, NJ 07480, 26 March 2015 . Powerpoint Presentation

Invited talk, "How Does Drought Change With Climate Change" American Geophysical Union, Drought and Its Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems: Current Understanding and Future Prospects I session, San Francisco, 16 Dec. 2014. Powerpoint Presentation

Invited public lecture (Peter Schroder lecture): Climate change: It's about the data isn't it? Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, 18 Sept, 2014 Powerpoint Presentation

Invited talk Conference on World Affairs: "Climate Change: It's about the data not the politics'", Colorado University, Boulder, CO, 11 April 2014 Powerpoint Presentation

Invited keynote talk: "Climate Change and Water: From the Globe to Utah", Spring Runoff Conference, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 1 April 2014 Powerpoint Presentation

Seminar: ""Earth's energy imbalance," Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 14 Nov 2013 Powerpoint Presentation

Invited public lecture: Distinguished Lecture Series, New Jersey Public Policy Network (NJPPN): "Global warming: Coming ready or not!", Ridgewood Public Library, 31 August 2012. Powerpoint presentation, PDF

"Destination Antarctica: 2012." This is a low resolution PDF version of the original Powerpoint presentation (the original is too large to post) describing my inspirational voyage on the National Geographic Explorer with Al Gore's Climate Reality Project, 28 January - 6 February 2012. PDF
Keynote plenary talk "Challenges of a sustained climate observing system." WCRP Open Science Conference, Denver, CO 24 - 28 October 2011. Powerpoint presentation, PDF

Invited keynote talk “Tracking Earth Energy: from El Niño to global warming.” SORCE Science Meeting “Decadal cycles in the sun, sun-like stars, and Earth’s climate system”, Sedona, AZ 13-16 September 2011. Powerpoint presentation, PDF
Invited presentation "Physical understanding of changes in extremes of precipitation with climate change," ASP Colloquium, NCAR, Boulder, CO, 6 June 2011. Powerpoint presentation, PDF

"The role of the ocean in climate," invited presentation at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, 15 March 2011. Powerpoint presentation, PDF
"Communicating Climate Change: In Honor of Stephen Schneider," presented at the 91st American Meteorological Society Meeting Special Session on Promoting Climate Change Information and Communication of Climate Change, Seattle, WA, 26 January 2011. Powerpoint Presentation, PDF
"The New GEWEX," presented at the American Meteorological Society 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, Special Session on WCRP Projects, Seattle, WA, 25 January 2011. Powerpoint presentation, PDF
Invited talk "Building a Climate Information System," Third Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) workshop, Baltimore, MD, 3-5 November 2010. PowerPoint presentation , PDF
Invited opening talk "An overview of atmospheric reanalyses" Workshop on Evaluation of Reanalyses- Developing and Integrated Earth System Analysis (IESA) Capability. Baltimore, MD. 1-3 November 2010. Powerpoint presentation, PDF
Invited public lecture, UCLA, "Global Warming: Coming Ready or Not!" Sponsored by the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Los Angeles, CA, 5 May 2010 Powerpoint presentation, PDF
Invited Keynote Address, "The Earth's Climate System: Variability and Change," Symposium on Climate Change Effects on Fish and Fisheries, Sendai, Japan, 26-29 April 2009. Video presentation
Invited presentation, "Climate Change and the IPCC," Tokio Marine's Summit on Global Warming and Climate Change, Atlanta, GA, 23 April 2010. Powerpoint presentation, pdf file
Invited presentation, "Potential impacts of climate change on precipitation," 3rd Kaplan Symposium Challenges of the Global water Shortage, Sea of Galilee, Israel, 11 April 2010. Powerpoint presentation, pdf file
Invited talk "Aspects of a climate observing system: energy and water," GEWEX/iLEAPS "Water in a Changing Climate" Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 24-28 August 2009.
Powerpoint presentation, pdf file
Invited plenary talks “An observational perspective on changes in the global hydrological cycle,” 2009 Royal Meteorological Society conference, Reading, U.K. 27 June-2 July 2009. and “Changes in precipitation and runoff in a changing climate” to Gordon Research Conference on Radiation and Climate, New London, NH, 4-9 July 2009.
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Invited presentation to the NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop, "Climate Change: Updated Scientific Assessment," 15 June 2009, NCAR, Boulder, CO.
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Invited keynote speaker, "The flow of energy through the Earth's climate system," workshop on "Variability of the Global Atmospheric Circulation During the Past 100 Years", 15-20 June 2008, Monte Verita, Switzerland.
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Keynote address, "Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events," Catastrophe Modeling Forum, New York, NY., 11-12 June 2008.
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Invited speaker, 2008 EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) Summer Symposium, "Global warming affects us all; What must be done",St. Julien Hotel, Boulder, CO, 10 June 2008.
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Invited keynote speaker in the American Geophysical Union's 2008 spring meeting in the Union session on "Understanding and Predicting Water and Energy Cycle Changes", on "Earth's changing energy and water cycles", 'Anticipated and Observed Trends in the Global Hydrological Cycle', Fort Lauderdale, FL, 28 May 2008.
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Invited NCAR/NESL Public lecture, 'Global warming: Coming ready or not', NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, 18 October, 2007.
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Invited keynote plenary talk, 'Global warming is unequivocal', Transport--The next 50 years conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 25-27 July, 2007.
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'Climate and weather forecasting: Issues and prospects for prediction of climate on multiple time scales'. Invited keynote presentation (1 hour) by Kevin E. Trenberth at the 27th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF), in New York City on 26 June 2007.
See also http://theclimatebet.com/.
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Invited Public lecture,'Global warming is unequivocal', University of Wisconsin, Madison. 23 April 2007.
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Invited keynote talk,'Progress Toward Integrated Earth System Analysis', 11th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), "Toward an Integrated Earth System Analysis" 14-18 January 2007 at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
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'Global Environmental Change Science and Relation to International Environmental Assessments and Conventions', presented at the ESSP Conference on Global Change Science in Beijing, 8-12 Nov 2006.
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'Attribution of Recent Increases in Atlantic Hurricane Activity', presented at the 31st Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Boulder, CO, 23-27 October, 2006, and participation in Forum of Panel of Experts on outstanding attribution questions.
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'Global climate change and drought in the West', presented as an invited talk at the National Wildlife Federation, Golden CO, Sept. 27, 2006, and previously as invited speaker at Public climate seminar led by ABC TV Channel 7 (Mike Nelson), "Climate change and water in the West", April 12, 2006, Omni, Broomfield CO, and elsewhere.
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'The Earth's Climate System: Variability and change', presented most recently as an invited talk at the NCAR summer colloquium on Climate and Health,16-21 July 2006, Boulder, CO.
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'Observations and their Analysis for WCRP/COPES', presented as an invited talk at the WCRP reanalysis conference,ECMWF, Reading, U.K. 19-22 June, 2006.
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'The Need for a Climate Observing System', presented at the 1/14/02 American Meteorological Society Meeting.
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Medalists Honored at 2017 AGU Fall Meeting: *Kevin Trenberth receives 2017 Roger Revelle Medal.* Citation and Response. /Eos/, 99, 42-4*3 [PDF]

Cheng, L., K. E. Trenberth, J. Fasullo, J. Abraham, T. Boyer, K. von Schuckmann, J. Zhu, 2018: Taking the pulse of the planet. Eos, doi: 10.1029/2017EO081839 [Article]

Trenberth, K. E., and Y. Zhang, 2017: How often does it really rain? Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. BAMS-D-17-0107.1, In Press [PDF]

Weatherhead, B., B. Wielicki, K. E. Trenberth, et al. 2018: Designing the climate observing System of the future. /Earth’s Future/, *5*, Doi: 10.1002/2017EF00062, In Press

Papalexiou, S. M., A. AghaKouchak, K. E. Trenberth, and E. Foufoula-Georgiou, 2018: Global, regional, and megacity trends in the highest temperature of the year: Diagnostics and evidence for accelerating trends, /Earth’s Future, /*5, *Doi: 10.1002/2017EF000709

Bedoya-Soto, J-M., G. Poveda, J. J. Vélez and K. Trenberth, 2018: Interannual hydro-climatic variability and the 2009-2011 extreme ENSO phases in Colombia - From Andean glaciers to Caribbean low-lands. /Theor. Appl. Climatol./accepted.

Shepherd, T. G., E. Boyd, R. A. Calel, S. C. Chapman, S. Dessai, I. M. Dima-West, H. J. Fowler, R. James, D. Maraun, O. Martius, C. A. Senior, A. H. Sobel, D. A. Stainforth, S. F. B. Tett, K. E. Trenberth, B. J. J. M. van den Hurk, N. W. Watkins, R. L. Wilby, D. Zenghelis, 2018: Storylines: An alternative approach to representing uncertainty in climate change. /Climatic Change,/ submitted.

Trenberth, K. E. and Y. Zhang, 2018: Near global covariability of hourly precipitation in space and time. /J Hydrometeor./, Doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-17-0238. Submitted.

Trenberth, K. E., and J. Fasullo, 2018: An updated atmospheric energetics formulation./J. Climate, /submitted.

2017

Cheng, L., K. Trenberth, J. Fasullo, T. Boyer, J. Abraham, and J. Zhu, 2017: Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960-2015. Sci. Adv. 3, 3, e1601545, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1601545 [Article]

Trenberth, K. E., 2017: The global warming pause. Geography Review, 30, 3, 35-37

Wang, G., D. Wang, K. Trenberth, A. Erfanian, M. Yu, M. Bosilovich, D. Parr, 2017: The peak structure and future changes of the relationships between extreme precipitation and temperature. Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038/NCLIM-3239 [Article]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2017: Atlantic meridional heat transports computed from balancing Earth’s energy locally. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 1919–1927, doi:10.1002/2016GL072475 [Article][PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., Y. Zhang and M. Gehne, 2017: Intermittency in precipitation: duration, frequency, intensity, and amounts using hourly data. J. Hydrometeor. 18, 1393-1412, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0263 [PDF]

2016

Mayer, M., J. T. Fasullo, K. E. Trenberth, L. Haimberger, 2016: ENSO-driven energy budget perturbations in observations and CMIP models. Climate Dyn., 47, 4009–4029 doi: 10.1007/s00382-016-3057-z [Article]

Covey, C., P. J. Gleckler, C. Doutriaux, D. N. Williams, A. Dai, J. Fasullo, K. Trenberth, A. Berg, 2016: Metrics for the diurnal cycle of precipitation: Toward routine benchmarks for climate models, J. Climate, 29, 4461-4471; doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0664.1. [PDF]

Cheng, L., K. E. Trenberth, M. D. Palmer, J. Zhu, and J. P. Abraham, 2016: Reconciling observed and modeled ocean heat content changes since 1970. Ocean Sci., 12, 925-935, doi:10.5194/os-2016-16. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Fasullo, K. von Schuckmann and L. Cheng, 2016: Insights into Earth’s energy imbalance from multiple sources. J. Climate, 29, 7495-7505. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0339. [PDF]

Gehne, M., T. M. Hamill, G. N. Kiladis and K. E. Trenberth, 2016: Comparison of global precipitation estimates across a range of temporal and spatial scales. J. Climate, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0618, in press. [PDF]

Kato, S., K-M. Xu, T. Wong, N. G. Loeb, F. G. Rose, K. E. Trenberth and T. J. Thorsen, 2016: Investigation of the residual in column-integrated atmospheric energy balance using cloud objects. J. Climate, 29, 7435-7452; doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0782. [PDF]

Simmons, A., J-L. Fellous, V. Ramaswamy, and K. Trenberth, 2016: Observation and Integrated Earth-system Science: A roadmap for 2016-2025. Advances in Space Research, 57, 2037-2103; [Article]

Yan, X-H., T. Boyer, K. Trenberth, T. R. Karl, S-P. Xie, V. Nieves, K-K. Tung, and D. Roemmich, 2016: The global warming hiatus: Slowdown or redistribution? Earth’s Future, 4, doi:10.002/2016EF000417. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., M. Marquis, and S. Zebiak, 2016: The vital need for a climate information system. Nature Clim. Change, 6, 1057-1059, [Article].

2015

Trenberth, K.E., 2015. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In: Gerald R. North (editor-in-chief), John Pyle and Fuqing Zhang (editors). Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 2, pp. 90-94. ISBN: 9780123822253. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Fasullo, and T. G. Shepherd, 2015: Attribution of climate extreme events. Nat. Clim. Change, 5, 725-730 doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2657, [Article]

Trenberth, K. E., Y. Zhang, J. T. Fasullo, and S. Taguchi, 2015: Climate variability and relationships between top-of-atmosphere radiation and temperatures on Earth. J. Geophys. Res., 120, 3642-3659, [Article]

Trenberth, K. E., Y. Zhang, and J. T. Fasullo, 2015: Relationships among top-of-atmosphere radiation and atmospheric state variables in observations and CESM. J. Geophys. Res., 120, 10,074-10,090, [Article]

von Schuckmann, K., M. D. Palmer, K. E. Trenberth, A. Cazenave, D. Chambers, N. Champollion, J. Hansen, S. A. Josey, N. Loeb, P.-P. Mathieu, B. Meyssignac, and M. Wild, 2016:Earth’s energy imbalance: An imperative for monitoring. Nature Climate Change, [Article], 138-144

Trenberth, K. E., 2015: Has there been a hiatus? Science, 349, 691-692. doi: 10.1126/science.aac9225. [Summary] [Reprint] [Full Text]

Fasullo, J. T., B. M. Sanderson, and K. E. Trenberth, 2015: Recent progress in constraining climate sensitivity with model ensembles. Current Climate Change Reports, Doi: 10.1007/s40641-015-0021-7. (in press).

Hegerl, G., E. Black, R. P. Allan, W. J. Ingram; D. Polson; K. Trenberth; R. Chadwick; P. A. Arkin, B. Balan-Sarojini, A. Becker, A. Dai, P. Durack, D. Easterling, H. Fowler, E. Kendon, G. Huffman, C. Liu, R. Marsh, M. New, T. Osborn, N. Skliris, P. Stott, P-L. Vidale, S. Wijffels, L. Wilcox, K. Willett, X. Zhang 2015: Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96, 1097-1115, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00212.1.

Lu, N., J. Qin, Y. Gao, K. Yang, K.E. Trenberth, M. Gehne, and Y. Zhu, 2015: Trends and variability in atmospheric precipitable water over the Tibetan Plateau for 2000–2010. Intl. J. Climatology, 35, 1394-1404, doi: 10.1002/joc.4064

2014

Trenberth, K. E., 2014: Climate change and environmental issues. In G7 Summit 2014, S. Trevis publisher, www.PrestigeMediaUSA.com 87pp, 21-31. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., A. Dai, G. van der Schrier, P. D. Jones, J. Barichivich, K. R. Briffa, and J. Sheffield, 2014: Global warming and changes in drought. Nature Climate Change, 4, 17-22, doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2067 [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Fasullo and M. A. Balmaseda: 2014: Earth's energy imbalance. J. Climate, 27, 3129-3144, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00294 [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and G. R. Asrar 2014: Challenges and opportunities in water cycle research: WCRP contributions. Surveys in Geophys., 35, 515-532. doi: 10.1007/s10712-012-9214-y [PDF]

Sutanto, S. J., B. van den Hurk, P. A. Dirmeyer, S. I. Seneviratne, T. Rockmann, K. E. Trenberth, E. M. Blyth J. Wenninger, and G. Hoffmann, 2014: A perspective on different approaches to determine the contribution of transpiration to the surface moisture fluxes. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 2815-2827, www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/18/2815/2014/ doi: 10.5194/hess-18-2815-2014 [PDF]

Gehne, M., R. Kleeman and K. E. Trenberth, 2014: Irregularity and decadal variation in ENSO: A simplified model based on Principal Oscillation Patterns. Clim. Dyn., doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2108-6 [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Fasullo, G. Branstator, and A. S. Phillips 2014: Seasonal aspects of the recent pause in surface warming. Nature Climate Change, 4, doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2341 [PDF]

Wallace, J. M., I. M. Held, D. W. J. Thompson, K. E. Trenberth, and J. E. Walsh, 2014: Global warming and winter weather. Science, 343, 729-730, doi: 10.1126/science.343.6172.729 [Article]

Ning Lu; K. E. Trenberth; J. Qin; K. Yang and L. Yao, 2014: Detecting long-term trend in precipitable water over the Tibetan Plateau by synthesis of station and MODIS observations., J. Clim., 28, 1707-1722, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00303

2009-2013

Dai, A., T. Qian, K. E. Trenberth, and J. D Milliman, 2009: Changes in continental freshwater discharge from 1948-2004. J. Climate, 22, 2773-2791. [PDF]

Doherty, S. J., S. Bojinski, A. Henderson-Sellers, K. Noone, D. Goodrich, N. L. Bindoff, J. A. Church, K. A. Hibbard, T. R. Karl, L. Kajfez-Bogataj, A. H. Lynch, D. E. Parker, I. C. Prentice, V. Ramaswamy, R. W. Saunders, M. Stafford Smith, K. Steffen, T. F. Stocker, P. W. Thorne, K. E. Trenberth, M. M. Verstraete, and F. W. Zwiers, 2009: Lessons learned from IPCC AR4: Scientific developments needed to understand, predict and respond to climate change. Bull Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 497-513. [PDF]

Stott, P., and K. Trenberth, 2009: Linking extreme weather to climate variability and change. Eos, 90, 21, 26 May 2009, 184.

Trenberth, K. E., 2009: Geoengineering: What, how, and for whom? Physics Today, 62, No. 2 (Letters), 10-12. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2009: An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth's global energy. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1, 19-27, doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2009.06.001. [PDF] [Article]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2009: Global warming due to increasing absorbed solar radiation. Geophys. Res. Lttrs., 36, L07706, doi: 10.1029/2009GL037527. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2009: Changes in the flow of energy through the Earth's climate system. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 18, No. 4, 369-377. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Fasullo, and J. Kiehl, 2009: Earth's global energy budget. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, No. 3, 311-324, doi: 10.1175/2008BAMS2634.1. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and L. Smith, 2009: Variations in the three dimensional structure of the atmospheric circulation with different flavors of El Niño. J. Climate, 22, No. 11, 2978-2991, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2691.1. [PDF]

Gulev, S. K. S. A. Josey, M. Bourassa, L.-A. Breivik, M. F. Cronin, C. Fairall, S. Gille, E. C. Kent, C. M. Lee, M. J. McPhaden, P. M. S. Monteiro, U. Schuster, S. R. Smith, K. E. Trenberth, D. Wallace, S.D. Woodruff 2010: Surface Energy and CO2 Fluxes in the Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice System. In Proc. "OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society" Conference (Vol. 2), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306, in press.

Hurrell, J. W., T. Delworth, G. Danabasoglu, H. Drange, K. Drinkwater, S. Griffies, N. Holbrook, B. Kirtman, N. Keenlyside, M. Latif, J. Marotzke, J. Murphy, G. A. Meehl, T. Palmer, H. Pohlmann, T. Rosati, R. Seager, D. Smith, R. Sutton, A. Timmermann, K. E. Trenberth, and J. Tribbia, 2010: Decadal climate prediction: Opportunities and challenges. In Proc. "OceanObs'09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society" Conference (Vol. 2), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306. [PDF]

Hurrell, J. W., M. Latif, M. Visbeck, T. L. Delworth, G. Danabasoglu, D. Dommenget, H. Drange, K. Drinkwater, S. Griffies, W. Hazeleger, N. J. Holbrook, B. Kirtman, N. Keenlyside, J. Marotzke, J. Murphy, G. A. Meehl, T. Palmer, H. Pohlmann, T. Rosati, R. Seager, D. Smith, R. Sutton, A. Timmermann, K. E. Trenberth, and J. Tribbia, 2010: Decadal Climate Variability Predictability and Prediction: Opportunities and Challenges. In Proceedings of the "OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society" Conference (Vol. 1), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009. Hall, J., Harrison D. E. and Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306. [PDF]

Reinecker, M. M., K. E. Trenberth, et al (34 others), 2010: Synthesis and assimilation systems – Essential adjuncts to the Global Ocean Observing System, Proc. "OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society" Conference (Vol. 1), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306, in press.

Trenberth, K. E., M. Balmaseda, N. Bindoff, J. Church, H. Freeland, G. Lagerloef, R. S. Nerem, M. Palmer, S. Rintoul, D. Roemmich, C. Sabine, D. Stammer, and P. Stott, 2010: Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and attribution and prediction of climate. Proc. "OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society" Conference (Vol. 1), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306, doi: 10.5270/OceanObs09 pp. 39. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., R. Dole, Y. Xue, K. Onogi, D. Dee, M. Balmaseda, M. Bosilovich, S. Schubert, W. Large, 2010: Atmospheric reanalyses: A major resource for ocean product development and modeling. In Proc. "OceanObs’09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society" Conference (Vol. 2), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison D.E. and Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306, in press. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2009: Changes in the flow of energy through the Earth’s climate system. Physics and Society, 38, 2, 11-16. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2009: Precipitation in a changing climate – More floods and droughts in the future. GEWEX News, 19, May 2009, 8-10. [PDF]

Foster, G., J. D. Annan, P. D. Jones, M. E. Mann, B. Mullan, J. Renwick, J. Salinger, G. A. Schmidt, and K. E. Trenberth, 2010: Comment on "Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature" by J. D. McLean, C. R. de Freitas, and R. M. Carter. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D09110, doi: 10.1029/2009JD012690. [PDF] [Article]

Shapiro, M., J. Shukla, G. Brunet, C. Nobre, M. Béland, R. Dole, K. Trenberth, R. Anthes, G. Asrar, L. Barrie, P. Bougeault, G. Brasseur, D. Burridge, A. Busalacchi, J. Caughey, D. Chen, J. Church, T. Enomoto, B. Hoskins, O. Hov, A. Laing, H. Le Treut, J. Marotzke, G. McBean, G. Meehl, M. Miller, B. Mills, J. Mitchell, M. Moncrieff, T. Nakazawa, H. Olafsson, T. Palmer, D. Parsons, D. Rogers, A. Simmons, A. Troccoli, Z. Toth, L. Uccellini, C. Velden, M. Wallace, 2010: An Earth-system prediction initiative for the 21st century. Bull Amer. Meteor. Soc., 10.1175/2010BAMS2944.1. [PDF]

Trenberth, K.E., 2010: More knowledge, less certainty. Nature Reports Climate Change, 21 Jan 2010, 20-21, doi: 10.1038/climate.2010.06 Commentary. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2010: The ocean is warming, isn't it? Nature, 465, 304. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2010: Fixing the planet? Science, 26, 1178-1179, doi: 10.1126/science.1197874. [Summary] [PDF] [Article]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2010: Simulation of present day and 21st century energy budgets of the southern oceans. J. Climate, 23, No. 2, 440-454. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2010: Tracking Earth's energy. Science, 328, 316-317. [Summary], [PDF], [Article]

Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Fasullo, C. O'Dell, and T. Wong, 2010: Relationships between tropical sea surface temperatures and top-of-atmosphere radiation. Geophys. Res. Ltt., 37, L03702, doi: 10.1029/2009GL042314. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and L. Smith, 2010: The three dimensional structure of the atmospheric energy budget: methodology and evaluation. Clim. Dyn., 32, 1065-1079, doi: 10.1007/s00382-008-0389-3. [PDF] [Article]

Zolina, O., V. Detemmerman, and K. E. Trenberth 2010: Improving the accuracy of estimation of climate extremes. Workshop on "Metrics and methodologies of estimation of extreme climate events". Paris, France, 27-29 September 2010. Eos, 91, No. 51, 506. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2010: Moving forward: Process for planning the future of GEWEX begins at 2nd Pan-GEWEX Meeting. GEWEX News, 20, November 2010, 10-13. [PDF]

Abraham, J., J. Gorman, F. Reseghetti, K. Trenberth, and W. Minkowycz, 2011: A New Method of Calculating Ocean Temperatures Using Expendable Bathythermographs, Energy and Environment Research, 1, 2-11. [PDF]

Meehl, G. A., J. M. Arblaster, J. T. Fasullo, A. Hu, and K. E. Trenberth, 2011: Model-based evidence of deep-ocean heat uptake during surface-temperature hiatus periods. Nature Climate Change, 1, 360-364, doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1229. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2011: Book Review - The Climate Crisis: An introductory guide to climate change. EOS, 92, No. 24. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2011: Changes in precipitation with climate change. Climate Research, 47, 123-138, doi: 10.3354/cr00953. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2011: Attribution of climate variations and trends to human influences and natural variability. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change, Wiley-Blackwell, November 2011, doi: 10.1002/wcc.142. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E. and J. T. Fasullo, 2011: Tracking Earth's energy: From El Niño to global warming. Surveys in Geophysics, Special Issue, doi: 10.1007/s10712-011-9150-2. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Fasullo, and J. P. Abraham, 2011: Issues in establishing climate sensitivity in recent studies. Remote Sensing, 3(9), 2051-2056, doi: 10.3390/rs3092061. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Fasullo, and J. Mackaro, 2011: Atmospheric moisture transports from ocean to land and global energy flows in reanalyses. J. Climate, 24, 4907-4924, doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI4171.1. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2011: Water Cycles and Climate Change. Section: Global change and climate in Handbook of Global Environmental Change. Springer, Heidelberg, Chapter DOI: HB_GlobalEnvChange_30 from: Book Title: Global Environmental Change, in press. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2011: The New GEWEX. 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, Special invited session on WCRP project and future plans. AMS, 23-27 January 2011, Seattle, Washington. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2011: Communicating climate science and thoughts on Climategate. "Joint Presidential Session on Communicating Climate Change," AMS, 23-27 January 2011, Seattle, Washington. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2011: Commentary: Challenges in GEWEX. GEWEX News, 21, November 2011, 2. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2012: Framing the way to relate climate extremes to climate change. Climatic Change, 115, Issue 2, 283-290, doi: 10.1007/s10584-012-0441-5. [Article] [PDF].

Trenberth, K. E. and J. T. Fasullo, 2012: Climate extremes and climate change: The Russian Heat Wave and other Climate Extremes of 2010. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D17103, doi: 10.1029/2012JD018020. [PDF]

Wang, K., R. E. Dickinson, L. Su, and K. E. Trenberth, 2012: Contrasting Trends of Mass and Optical Properties of Aerosols over the Northern Hemisphere from 1992 to 2011. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 9387-9398, doi:10.5194/acp-12-9387-2012. [Article]

Fasullo, J. T., and K. E. Trenberth, 2012: A less cloudy future: The role of subtropical subsidence in climate sensitivity. Science, 338, 792-794. doi: 10.1126/science.1227465. Article: [Article]

Bengtsson, L, S Koumaoutsaris, R-M. Bonnet, R. P. Allan, C. Frohlich, J. Heintzenberg, P. Ingmann, R. Kandel, N. G. Loeb, B. Soden, and K. E. Trenberth (eds) 2012: Observing and modeling Earth's Energy Flows. Space Sci. Ser. of ISSI. Springer. 484 pp.

Trenberth, K. E., Anthes, R. A., Belward, A., Brown, O., Haberman, E., Karl, T. R., Running, S., Ryan, B., Tanner, M., and Wielicki, B., 2012: Challenges of a sustained climate observing system. In Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Modelling and Prediction Priorities, G. R. Asrar and J. W. Hurrell, Eds. Springer, 484 pp, 13-50. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2012: Will the West Survive? Men's Journal, The Magazine [Article]

Trenberth, K. E., 2012: Super storm Sandy. The Scientist [Article]

Corell, Bob, J. Masters and K. E. Trenberth, 2012: Commentary - Did climate change contribute to Sandy? Yes. Politico. [Article]

Trenberth, K. E., 2012: Eyes on the Atmosphere. John Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth: Imagine, Vol. 20, No. 3, ISSN: 1071-605X. [PDF] [Article]

Trenberth, K.E., et al., 2012: Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate, The Wall Street Journal, February 1, 2012. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2013: Commentary: The New Normal. GEWEX News, February 2013. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and G. R. Asrar 2013: Challenges and opportunities in water cycle research: WCRP contributions. Surveys in Geophysics, doi: 10.1007/s10712-012-9214-y [PDF]

Mayer, M, K. E. Trenberth, L. Haimberger and J. T. Fasullo, 2013: The response of tropical atmospheric energy budgets to ENSO. J. Climate, 26, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00681.1, in press. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2013: North American water and energy cycles. Geophys. Res Lett., 40, 365-369, doi: 10.1002/grl.50107 [PDF]

Balmaseda, M. A., K. E. Trenberth and E. Kallen, 2013: Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content, Geophys. Res Lett., 40, 1-6, doi: 10.1002/grl.50382, 2013 [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2013: Regional energy and water cycles: Transports from ocean to land . J. Climate, 26, 7837-7851, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-00008.1. [PDF]

Schneider,D, C. Deser, K. Trenberth, and J. Fasullo, 2013: Climate Data Guide spurs discovery and understanding, Eos Trans. AGU, 94(13), 121-122. [PDF]

Meehl, G. A., A. Hu, J. Arblaster, J. T. Fasullo, and K. E. Trenberth, 2013: Externally forced and internally generated decadal climate variability in the Pacific, J. Clim, 26, 7298-7310. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00548.1 [PDF]

Ning Lu; K. E. Trenberth; J. Qin; K. Yang and L. Yao, 2014: Detecting long-term trend in precipitable water over the Tibetan Plateau by synthesis of station and MODIS observations. J. Clim., 28, 1707-1722, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00303 [PDF]

Abraham, J. P., M. Baringer, N.L. Bindoff, T. Boyer, L. J. Cheng, J. A. Church, J. L. Conroy, C. M. Domingues, J. T. Fasullo, J. Gilson, G. Goni, S. A. Good, J. M. Gorman, V. Gouretski, M. Ishii, G. C. Johnson, S. Kizu, J. M. Lyman, A. M. Macdonald, W. J. Minkowycz, S. E. Moffitt, M. D. Palmer, A. R. Piola, F. Reseghetti, K. Schuckmann, K. E. Trenberth, I. Velicogna, J. K. Willis, 2013: A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change, Reviews of Geophysics, 51, 450-483. Doi: 10.1002/rog.20022. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2013: An apparent hiatus in global warming? Earth's Future. Doi: 10.002/2013EF000165. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2013. El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier, 2013. Available [Article] [PDF]

2004-2008

Dai, A., and K. E. Trenberth, 2004: The diurnal cycle and its depiction in the Community Climate System Model. J. Climate, 17, 930-951. [Abstract] [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2004: Rural land-use change and climate. Nature, 427, 213-214.[PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., J. Overpeck and S. Solomon, 2004: Exploring drought and its implications for the future. Eos, 85, No. 3, 20 Jan 2004, 27-29. [PDF]

Dai, A., K. E. Trenberth and T. Qian, 2004: A global data set of Palmer Drought Severity Index for 1870-2002: Relationship with soil moisture and effects of surface warming. J. Hydrometeor., 5, 1117-1130. [PDF]

Dai, A., P. J. Lamb, K. E. Trenberth, M. Hulme, P. D. Jones and P. Xie, 2004: The recent Sahel drought is real. Intl. J. Climatol., 24, 1323-1331. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and D. P. Stepaniak, 2004: The flow of energy through the Earth's climate system. Symons Lecture 2004. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 130, 2677-2701. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2004: Earth's Energy Balance. Encyclopedia of Energy, Cutler J. Cleveland (Ed. in Chief), Vol. 1, Elsevier Inc. 859-870.

Overpeck, J., and K. Trenberth, 2004: A multi-millennia perspective on drought and implications for the future. Proc of a joint CLIVAR-PAGES-IPCC workshop. Nov 18-21, 2003, Tucson, AZ. 30 pp.

Trenberth, K. E., 2004: The role of the ocean in climate. Chap. 1, Annual Rep. The state of the ocean and the ocean observing system for climate, Ed. D. M. Stanitski, Office of Climate Observations, NOAA, 307 pp. 1-6.

Arkin, P., E. Kalnay, J. Laver, S. Schubert and K. Trenberth, 2004: Ongoing analysis of the climate system: A workshop report. Proc workshop Boulder CO 18-20 August, 2003. 48 pp.

Trenberth K.E., 2004: Manifestations of global climate change on accelerating the hydrological cycle: prospects for increasing extremes, in Proceedings of the 2nd international CAHMDA workshop on: The Terrestrial Water Cycle:Modelling and Data Assimilation Across Catchment Scales, edited by A.J. Teuling, H. Leijnse, P.A. Troch, J. Sheffield and E.F. Wood, Princeton, NJ, October 25-27, 2004 pp. 33-35.

Trenberth, K. E., and D. J. Shea, 2005: Relationships between precipitation and surface temperature. Geophys. Res. Lttrs., 32, L14703, doi:10.1029/2005GL022760.[PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., J. Fasullo, and L. Smith, 2005: Trends and variability in column-integrated atmospheric water vapor. Clim. Dyn., 24, 741-758. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and L. Smith, 2005: The Mass of the Atmosphere: a Constraint on Global Analyses. J. Climate, 18, 864-875. [Abstract] [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., D. P. Stepaniak and L. Smith, 2005: Interannual variability of patterns of atmospheric mass distribution. J. Climate, 18, 2812-2825. [Abstract] [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2005: Uncertainty in Hurricanes and Global Warming. Science, 308, 1753-1754. [Summary] [Paper]

Trenberth, K. E., 2005: A changing world for climate research. Geotimes, December 2005, 24-25.

Trenberth, K. E., 2005: Observed global changes in climate. Changements Climatiques: quels impacts en France. Greenpeace Climate Impact Report, November 2005, 16pp.

Trenberth, K. E., J. W. Hurrell, D. P. Stepaniak, 2005: The Asian monsoon: Global perspectives. Asian Monsoon, B. Wang, Ed., Praxis Publishing Ltd. 67-87 and color section 9-19.

Uppala, S. M., P. W. Kållberg, A. J. Simmons, U. Andrae, V. da Costa Bechtold, M. Fiorino, J. K Gibson, J. Haseler, A. Hernandez, G. A. Kelly, X. Li, K. Onogi, S. Saarinen, N. Sokka, R. P. Allan, E. Andersson, K. Arpe, M. A. Balmaseda, A. C. M. Beljaars, L. van de Berg, J. Bidlot, N.Bormann, S. Caires, A. Dethof, M. Dragosavac, M. Fisher, M. Fuentes, S. Hagemann, E. Hólm, B. J. Hoskins, L. Isaksen, P. A. E. M. Janssen, A. P. McNally, J.-F. Mahfouf, R. Jenne, J.-J. Morcrette, N. A Rayner, R. W. Saunders, P. Simon, A. Sterl, K. E. Trenberth, A. Untch, D. Vasiljevic, P. Viterbo and J. Woollen 2005: The ERA-40 reanalysis. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc.131, 2961-3012.[PDF]

Anthes, R. A., R.W. Corell, G. Holland, J. W. Hurrell, M. MacCracken, K.E. Trenberth, 2006: Hurricanes and Global Warming: Potential Linkages and Consequences. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 87, 623-628.

Dai, A., T. R. Karl, B. Sun, K. E. Trenberth, 2006: Recent trends in cloudiness over the United States: A tale of monitoring inadequacies. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 87, 597-606. [PDF]

Qian, T., A. Dai, K. E. Trenberth, K. W. Oleson, 2006: Simulation of Global Land Surface Conditions from 1948 to 2002: Part I: Forcing Data and Evaluations. J. Hydromet., 7, 953-975. [PDF]

Simmons, A., K. E. Trenberth and S. Uppala, 2006: Future needs in atmospheric reanalysis. Eos, 87, pp 583, 587.

Su, F., J. C. Adam, K. E. Trenberth, D. P. Lettenmaier, 2006: Evaluation of surface water fluxes of the pan-Arctic land region with a land surface model and ERA-40 reanalysis. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D05 110, doi:10.1029/2005JD006387. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2006: The role of the oceans in climate. Flotsam and Jetsam, 35, 1, 5-7.

Trenberth, K. E., B. Moore, T. R. Karl, and C. Nobre, 2006: Monitoring and prediction of the Earth's climate: A future perspective. J. Climate, (CLIVAR special issue), 19, 5001-5008. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and D. J. Shea (2006), Atlantic hurricanes and natural variability in 2005, Geophys. Res. Lttrs., 33, L12704, doi:10.1029/2006GL026894. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and L. Smith, 2006: The vertical structure of temperature in the tropics: Different flavors of El Nino. J. Clim., 19, 4956-4973. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2006: Observed changes to the climate and their causes. Chapter 9 of Confronting Climate Change: Critical Issues for New Zealand. R. Chapman, J. Boston and M. Schwass (Eds.) Victoria Univ. Press. Pp 93-102.

Trenberth, K. E., 2006: Evaluation of the atmospheric water cycle in ERA-40 using observationally-constrained land model results. GEWEX News, May 2006, 8-10. [PDF]

Qian, T., A. Dai, and K. E. Trenberth, 2007: Hydroclimatic trends in the Mississippi river basin from 1948 to 2004. J. Climate, 20, 4599-4614. [PDF]

Serreze, M. C., A. P. Barrett, A. J. Slater, M. Steele, J. Zhang, and K. E. Trenberth, 2007: The large-scale energy budget of the Arctic. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D11122, doi:10.1029/2006JD008230. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and A. Dai, 2007: Effects of Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption on the hydrological cycle as an analog of geoengineering. Geophys. Res. Lttrs., 34, L15702, doi:10.1029/2007GL030524. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., C. A. Davis and J. Fasullo, 2007: Water and energy budgets of hurricanes: Case studies of Ivan and Katrina . J. Geophys. Res., 112, D23106, doi:10.1029/2006JD008303. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. Fasullo, 2007: Water and energy budgets of hurricanes and implications for climate change. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D23107, doi:10.1029/2006JD008304. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., L. Smith, T. Qian, A. Dai and J. Fasullo, 2007: Estimates of the global water budget and its annual cycle using observational and model data. J. Hydrometeor, 8, 758-769. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2007: Warmer oceans, stronger hurricanes. Scientific American, July, 2007, 45-51. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., P. D. Jones, P. Ambenje, R. Bojariu, D. Easterling, A. Klein Tank, D. Parker, F. Rahimzadeh, J. A. Renwick, M. Rusticucci, B. Soden, P. Zhai 2007: Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2007. The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of WG 1 to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. C. Marquis, K. B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H. L. Miller (Eds.) Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, U. K., and New York, NY, USA, 235-336, plus annex online.

Rasmusson, R., A. Dai and K. E. Trenberth, 2007: Impact of climate change on precipitation. Chapter 16 of Large-scale Disasters, Prediction. Control and Mitigation. Mohamed Gad-el-Hak (Ed.) Cambridge Univ. Press, London. 453-472.

Shapiro, M., J. Shukla, B. Hoskins, J. Church, K. Trenberth, M. Béland, G. Brasseur, M. Wallace, G. McBean, J. Caughey, D. Rogers, G. Brunet, L. Barrie, A. Henderson-Sellers, D. Burridge, T. Nakazawa, M. Miller, P. Bougeault, R. Anthes, Z. Toth, and T. Palmer,.2007: The socioeconomic and environmental benefits of a revolution in weather, climate and earth-system prediction: A weather, climate and earth-system prediction project for the 21^st century. In The Full Picture Tudor Rose (Pub.) on behalf of Group on Earth Observations. ISBN 978-92-990047-0-8, 278pp; 136-138.

Forster, P., R. Somerville, N. Bindoff, J. Christensen, K. Denman, G. Hegerl, B. Hewitson, E. Jansen, P. Jones, P. Lemke, G. Meehl, J. Overpeck, V. Ramaswamy, D. Randall, T. Stocker, K. Trenberth, H. Le Treut, J. Willebrand, R. Wood, F. Zwiers, 2007: Climate with care. New Scientist. 24 March 2007, p 27.

Anthes, R. A., P. A. Bernhardt, Y. Chen, L. Cucurull, K. F. Dymond, D. Ector, S. Healy, S.-P. Ho, D. C. Hunt, Y.-H. Kuo, H. Liu, K. Manning, C. McCormick, T. K. Meehan, W. J. Randel, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, S. V. Sokolovskiy, S. Syndergaard, D. C. Thompson, K. E. Trenberth, T-K. Wee, N. L. Yen, and Z. Zeng, 2008: The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 mission: Early results. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 313-333. [PDF]

Fasullo, J. T., and K. E. Trenberth, 2008: The annual cycle of the energy budget. Part I: Global mean and land-ocean exchanges. J. Climate, 21, 2297-2312. [PDF]

Fasullo, J. T., and K. E. Trenberth, 2008: The annual cycle of the energy budget. Part II: Meridional structures and poleward transports. J. Climate, 21, 2313-2325. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2008: Observational needs for climate prediction and adaptation. WMO Bulletin, 57 (1), 17-21. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. Fasullo, 2008: An observational estimate of ocean energy divergence. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 984-999. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. Fasullo, 2008: The energy budgets of Atlantic hurricanes and changes from 1970. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, doi:10.1029/2007GC001847. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and L. Smith, 2008: Atmospheric energy budgets in the Japanese Reanalysis: Evaluation and variability. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 86, 579-592. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., T. Koike, and K. Onogi, 2008: Progress and prospects in reanalysis. Eos, 89, 26, 24 June 2008, 234-235. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2008: Global warming is unequivocal. Chapter 2 in Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region, starting a public discussion. Summary report by S. Wittman, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, 19-26.

Trenberth, K. E., 2008: The Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Heavy Precipitation, Floods, and Droughts, The Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK. DOI 10.1002/0470848944.hsa211. PDF.

Hurrell, J. W., and Trenberth, K. E., 2010: Climate Change. Chapter 2 in The Effects of Climate Change on Birds. A. P. Møller, W. Fiedler, and P. Berthold (Eds.) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 9-29. [Frontmatter] [Chapter 2 PDF] [Chapter 2 Color Plates PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2008: Climate change and extreme weather events. Catastrophe Modeling Forum, New York, NY, 11-12 June 2008. 7 pp.

Trenberth, K. E., 2008: The role of the ocean in climate. Chapter 1, Annual Rep FY2007. The state of the ocean and the ocean observing system for climate, Ed. J. Levy, Office of Climate Observation, NOAA. 10 pp.

Trenberth, K. E., 2008: An update on human-induced climate change: global warming: coming, ready or not. Diritto e Libertà (Right and Freedom) (Italian international politics magazine) www.dirittoeliberta.it [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2008: Models can be useful tools for planning ahead: A response to Thomas Chase: ‘A caution to policymakers: climate models fail key tests for accuracy’, Ogmius, 22, summer 2008, pp 2-3. [PDF]

1999-2003

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: Conceptual framework for changes of extremes of the hydrological cycle with climate change. Climatic Change, 42, 327-339.[PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: Atmospheric moisture recycling: Role of advection and local evaporation. J. Climate, 12, 1368-1381. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and T. Owen, 1999: Workshop on indices and indicators for climate extremes, Asheville, NC, USA., 3-6 June 1997: Breakout Group A: Storms. Climatic Change, 42, 9-21.

Dai, A., F. Giorgi and K. E. Trenberth, 1999: Observed and model simulated precipitation diurnal cycles over the contiguous United States [PDF] J. Geophys. Res., 104, 6377-6402.

Dai, A., K. E. Trenberth and T. R. Karl, 1999: Effects of clouds, soil moisture, precipitation and water vapor on diurnal temperature range. J. Climate, 12, 2451-2473. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: Global climate project shows early promise. Eos, 80, 24, (June 15, 1999), 269, 274-275.

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: The climate system and climate change. Current topics in Wetland Biogeochemistry, 3, 4-15.

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: The extreme weather events of 1997 and 1998 [PDF] Consequences, Vol 5, 1, 2-15.

Hurrell, J. W., and K. E. Trenberth, 1999: Global sea surface temperature analyses: multiple problems and their implications for climate analysis, modeling and reanalysis. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 80, 2661-2678. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. W. Hurrell, 1999: Comment on ``The interpretation of short climate records with comments on the North Atlantic and Southern Oscillations", Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 80, 2721-2722.

Trenberth, K. E., and J. W. Hurrell, 1999: Reply to Rajagopalan, Lall and Cane's comment about ``The interpretation of short climate records with comments on the North Atlantic and Southern Oscillations'', Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 80, 2726-2728.

Karl, T., and K. Trenberth, 1999: The human impact on climate. Scientific American. December. 100-105.

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: Short-term Climate Variations. Recent accomplishments and issues for future progress. Storms Vol 1. R. Pielke Sr and R. Pielke Jr (Eds). Routledge Press. London. 126-141.

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: Forecasts of the development of the 1997-98 El Niño event. Proc. Intl. Symp. Triangle '98, Kyoto, Japan, Sept 29-Oct 2, 1998. 14-20.

Trenberth K. E., 1999: The evolution of CLIVAR science. Proc. Intl. CLIVAR Conf. UNESCO, Paris, 2-4 Dec 1998. WCRP-108, WMO/TD 954, ICPO 27. 17-19.

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: Implementing CLIVAR. Proc. Amer. Met. Soc. Tenth Symposium on Global Change Studies. 11-15 Jan. 1999. Dallas TX. 1-3.

Hurrell, J. W., and K. E. Trenberth, 1999: A comparison of different global SST data sets. Proc. Amer. Met. Soc. Tenth Symposium on Global Change Studies. 11-15 Jan. 1999. Dallas TX. 89-90.

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: El Niño and global warming. Proc. Amer. Met. Soc. Tenth Symposium on Global Change Studies. 11-15 Jan. 1999. Dallas TX. 258-260.

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: Forecasts of the development of the 1997-98 El Niño event. Proc. Amer. Met. Soc. Second Hayes Symposium on seasonal to interannual climate variability - The 1997/98 ENSO cycle. 12-15 Jan. 1999. Dallas TX. 51-54.

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: Future ENSO diagnostics, Proc. Amer. Met. Soc. Second Hayes Symposium on seasonal to interannual climate variability - The 1997/98 ENSO cycle. 12-15 Jan. 1999. Dallas TX. 110-113.

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: Global climate system change and observations. NASA Scientific Forum on Climate Variability and Global Change. UNISPACE III, 19-30 July 1999, Vienna, Austria. NASA/CP-1999-209240, R. A. Schiffer and S. Unninayar, Eds. 15-29.

Trenberth, K. E., 1999: The Evolution of CLIVAR Science. Proc. Intl. CLIVAR conference. Paris France, 2-4 Dec, 1998. WCRP-108, WMO/TD 954, ICPO 27. 17-19.

Trenberth, K. E., D. P. Stepaniak and J. M. Caron, 1999: The global monsoon. Proc. Second International Conf. on Reanalyses. 23-27 Aug 1999, Reading, U.K. WCRP-109, WMO/TD-No 985, 313-316.

Trenberth, K. E., and D. P. Stepaniak, 1999: Global energy and moisture budgets of the atmosphere. Proc. Second International Conf. on Reanalyses. 23-27 Aug 1999, Reading, U.K. WCRP-109, WMO/TD-No 985, 369-372.

Trenberth K. E., 1999: Perspectives on Implementing CLIVAR. Exchanges,4, 2 (June 1999), 5-6.

Gould, J., and K. E. Trenberth, 1999: The WCRP Joint Scientific Committee - 20th Meeting (JSC XX). Exchanges, 4, 2 (June 1999), 7.

Trenberth K. E., and R. A. Clarke, 1999: Preface. Proc. Intl. CLIVAR Conf. UNESCO, Paris, 2-4 Dec 1998. WCRP-108, WMO/TD 954, ICPO 27. p iii.

Trenberth, K. E., D. P. Stepaniak and J. M. Caron, 2000: The global monsoon as seen through the divergent atmospheric circulation. J. Climate, 13, 3969-3993. [PDF]

Hurrell, J. W., S. J. Brown, K. E. Trenberth and J. R. Christy, 2000: Comparison of tropospheric temperatures from radiosondes and satellites: 1979-1998. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 81, 2165-2177. [PDF]

Easterling, D. R., T. R. Karl, K. P. Gallo, D. A. Robinson, K. E. Trenberth, and A. Dai, 2000: Observed climate variability and change of relevance to the Biosphere. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 20101-20114.

Trenberth, K. E., and J. M. Caron, 2000: The Southern Oscillation revisited: Sea level pressures, surface temperatures and precipitation. J. Climate, 13, 4358-4365.[PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., K. Miller, L. Mearns, and S. Rhodes, 2000: Effects of Changing Climate on Weather and Human Activities. Understanding Global Change: Earth Science and Human Impacts Series, Global Change Instruction Program, UCAR. University Science Books. 46 pp. [Download pdf file.]

Trenberth, K. E., 2000: Challenges for Southern Hemisphere atmospheric and ocean sciences in the 21st century. Proc. Sixth International Conf. on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography. Santiago, Chile, 3-7 April 2000. 1-2.

Trenberth, K. E., 2000: Science of climate change and climate variability Proc. Commission on Climatology International Symposium, Climate Change and Variability, and their Impacts. Aug 9-13, 2000, Seoul, Korea. 11-20.

Trenberth K. E., 2000: Millenium Perspectives. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., vol 81, 100.

Trenberth K. E., 2000: Conceptual framework for changes of rainfall and extremes of the hydrological cycle with climate change. Exchanges, 5, 1, 12-13.

Trenberth K. E., 2000: A perspective on the extreme events of 1997-98. The Climate Report. Maryam Golnaraghi (Ed.), Climate Risk Solutions, Inc. 1, 2, 2-8.

Trenberth, K. E., J. M. Caron and D. P. Stepaniak, 2000: The atmospheric energy budget and implications for surface fluxes. Exchanges, 5, No. 4, 4-6.

Trenberth K. E., 2000: Predictability of climate and the global water cycle. Proc. workshop of National Research Council Committee on Hydrological Sciences "Predictability and limit of prediction for hydrological systems''. Boulder, CO 21-22 Sept., 2000.

Trenberth, K. E., J. M. Caron and D. P. Stepaniak, 2001: The atmospheric energy budget and implications for surface fluxes and ocean heat transports [PDF]. Clim. Dyn., 17, 259-276.

Trenberth, K. E., and D. P. Stepaniak, 2001: Indices of El Niño evolution. J. Climate., 14, 1697-1701. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. M. Caron, 2001: Estimates of meridional atmosphere and ocean heat transports. J. Climate., 14, 3433-3443. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2001: Climate variability and global warming. Science, 293, 48-49.

Trenberth K. E., 2001: Stronger Evidence of Human Influence on Climate: The 2001 IPCC Assessment [PDF], Environment, 43, 4, pp. 8-19. (cover story).

Trenberth, K. E., D. P. Stepaniak, J. W. Hurrell and M. Fiorino, 2001: Quality of reanalyses in the tropics. J. Climate, 14, 1499-1510. [PDF]

Stocker, T. G., K. C. Clarke, H. Le Treut, R. S. Lindzen, V. P. Meleshko, R. K. Mugara, T. N. Palmer, R. T. Pierrehumbert, P. J. Sellers, K. E. Trenberth, and J. Willebrand, 2001: Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks. Chapter 7 of Climate Change 2001. The scientific basis. Contribution of WG 1 to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. J.T. Houghton, et al. (Eds). Cambridge University Press. 417-470.

Albritton D., G. Meira Filho, U. Cubasch, X. Dai, Y. Ding, D. Griggs, B. Hewitson, J. Houghton, I. Isaksen, T. Karl, M. McFarland, V. Meleshko, J. Mitchell, M. Noguer, B. Nyenzi, M. Oppenheimer, J. Penner, S. Pollonais, T. Stocker, and K. Trenberth, 2001: Technical Summary. Climate Change 2001. The science of Climate Change. Contribution of WG 1 to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Houghton, J.T., Y. Ding, D. J. Griggs, M Noguer, P. J. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell, and C. A. Johnson (Eds). Cambridge University Press. 21-83.

Trenberth, K. E., 2001: Earth System Processes. Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change. T. Munn (Ed. in Chief). Vol. 1. The Earth System: Physical and Chemical Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. M. C. MacCracken and J. S. Perry (Eds) John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 13-30. Download pdf file.

Trenberth, K. E., 2001: Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (GOALS), Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change. T. Munn (Ed. in Chief). Vol. 1. The Earth System: Physical and Chemical Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. M. C. MacCracken and J. S. Perry (Eds) John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 411-413.

Trenberth, K. E., 2001: Climate: El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. Academic Press. J. Steele, S. Thorpe, and K. Turekian Eds. 815-827.

IPCC, 2001: Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report. A contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Watson, R. T. and the Core writing team (eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. and New York, 398 pp. [K. E. Trenberth, author but omitted from list]

Caron, J. M., and K. E. Trenberth, 2001: Exploring the Heat Budget of ENSO. Proc. 25th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, 39-42.

Trenberth, K. E., 2001: Global warming is happening. Proc. American Association Petroleum Geologists conference, June 3-6, 2001, Denver CO. 6pp.

Trenberth, K. E., and J. M. Caron, 2001: Meridional atmosphere and ocean heat transports. Proc. WCRP/SCOR Workshop on Intercomparison and Validation of Ocean-Atmosphere flux fields, 21-24 May 2001, WCRP-115, WMO/TD 1083. 10-13.

Trenberth, K. E., 2001: Outstanding issues in the hydrological cycle in climate change research. Proc. Climate and Ozone Programme Conference, Bergen 27-29 November, 2001. Norwegian Inst. for Air Research N-95102. 39-42.

Trenberth K. E., 2001: The evolution of ENSO and global atmospheric temperatures. Proc. Sino-US Workshop on Climate change and modeling, 15-16 Jan, 2001, 28-29.

Trenberth K. E., 2001: How should precipitation change as climate changes: Prospects for increases in extremes. The Climate Report. Maryam Golnaraghi (Ed.), Climate Risk Solutions, Inc. 2, 1, 11-13.

Trenberth K. E., 2001: Book review of "Global Warming: The science of climate" by Francis Drake. Climatic Change, 50, 511-513.

Trenberth, K. E., 2001: The IPCC assessment of global warming 2001. THE FORUM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, SCIENCE, ENGINEERING and FINANCE (FAILSAFE) electronic journal spring (March) issue, pp 8-26.

Wallace, J. M. and K. E. Trenberth, 2000: The Earth's surface temperature in the 20th Century: Coming to grips with satellite and surface-based records of temperature. Inter-American Institute (IAI) for Global Change Research Newsletter, 23, 44-48. (English and Spanish)

Trenberth, K. E., and D. P. Stepaniak, 2001: A new index of El Niño related to decadal variability. Exchanges, 6, 25-27.

Trenberth, K. E., and D. P. Stepaniak, 2001: A new index of El Niño related to decadal variability. Subtle Signals 1

Spence, T. W., and K. E. Trenberth, 2001: Climate Observing System. Paper prepared for the Presidential Climate Change Research Initiative.

Trenberth, K. E., 2002: The extreme weather events of 1997 and 1998. Water Resources and Climate Change. K. D. Frederick (Ed.), Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd. Cheltenham, U.K., 3-16.

Trenberth K. E., and D. P. Stepaniak, 2002: A pathological problem with NCEP reanalyses in the stratosphere, J. Climate, 15, pp. 690-695. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., D. P. Stepaniak, and J. M. Caron 2002: Interannual variations in the atmospheric heat budget [PDF] J. Geophys. Res., 107, D8, 10.1029/2000JD000297.

Trenberth, K. E., J. M. Caron, D. P. Stepaniak, and S. Worley 2002: The evolution of ENSO and global atmospheric surface temperatures [PDF] J. Geophys. Res., 107, D8, 10.1029/2000JD000298.

Trenberth, K. E., D. P. Stepaniak and J. M. Caron, 2002: Accuracy of atmospheric energy budgets from analyses. J. Climate, 15, 3343-3360. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., T. R. Karl and T. W. Spence, 2002: The need for a systems approach to climate observations. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 1593-1602. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2002: Changes in tropical clouds and radiation: Are they real? Science, 296, (21 June 2002) 2095a.

Dai, A., and K. E. Trenberth, 2002: Estimates of freshwater discharge from continents: Latitudinal and seasonal variations. J. Hydrometeor, 3, 660-687. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 2002: Climate Change and the ENSO Cycle. Facts and Speculation about La Niña and Its Societal Impacts. Glantz, M.H. (Ed.) Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press. UNUP-1071, 51-56..

Trenberth, K. E., 2002: Why and how does precipitation change? In Report of a workshop on Predictability & limits-to-prediction in Hydrological Systems. Committee on Hydrology, National Research Council, National Academy Press. 94-97.

Karl, T. R., and K. E. Trenberth, 2002: What is Climate Change. Chapter 8 of Climate Change and Biodiversity, Eds. L. Hannah and T. E. Lovejoy. Yale University Press.

Trenberth, K. E. and D. P. Stepaniak, 2002: Diagnostics of vertically integrated fluxes of energy. 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations; Amer. Met. Soc., Orlando FL, 13-17 Jan. 2002; 60-61.

Trenberth, K. E., 2002: Components of a climate observing system. 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations; Amer. Met. Soc., Orlando FL, 13-17 Jan. 2002; 1-2.

Trenberth, K. E., D. P. Stepaniak and J. M. Caron, 2002: Accuracy of atmospheric energy budgets. WGNE report "Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling."

Trenberth, K. E., 2002: An uphill battle ? Denver Post, June 30th.

Trenberth, K. E., D. P. Stepaniak and J. M. Caron, 2003: Preliminary evaluation of vertically-integrated fluxes of moisture and energy from ERA-40. Proj. Rep. Ser. 3, 265-266

Karl, T. R., Trenberth, K. E., 2003: Modern Global Climate Change. Science 302, 1719-1723. [Abstract] [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., A. Dai, R. M. Rasmussen and D. B. Parsons, 2003: The changing character of precipitation. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84, 1205-1217. [Abstract] [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and B. L. Otto-Bliesner, 2003: Toward integrated reconstructions of past climates. Science, 300, 589-591. [Summary] [Paper]

Trenberth, K. E., and D. P. Stepaniak, 2003: Co-variability of components of poleward atmospheric energy transports on seasonal and interannual timescales. J. Climate, 16, 3691-3705. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and D. P. Stepaniak, 2003: Seamless poleward atmospheric energy transports and implications for the Hadley circulation. J. Climate, 16, 3706-3722. [PDF]

Mann, M. E., C. Ammann, R. S. Bradley, K. Briffa, T. J. Crowley, M. Hughes, P. D. Jones, T. Osborn. M. Oppenheimer, J. Overpeck, S. Rutherford, K. E. Trenberth, T. M. L. Wigley, 2003: On past temperatures and anomalous late 20th Century warmth. Eos, 84, No. 27, 8 July 2003, 256-257.

Mann, M. E., C. Ammann, R. S. Bradley, K. Briffa, T. J. Crowley, M. Hughes, P. D. Jones, T. Osborn. M. Oppenheimer, J. Overpeck, S. Rutherford, K. E. Trenberth, T. M. L. Wigley, 2003: Response to comment "On past temperatures and anomalous late 20th Century warmth." Eos, 84, No. 44, 4 Nov 2003, 473,476

Trenberth, K. E., 2003: The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system. Chapter 14 of Handbook of Weather, Climate and Water: Climate, Physical Meteorology, Weather Systems and Measurements, Eds T. D. Potter and B. R. Coleman. J. Wiley & Sons. 163-173.

Mason, P., K. E. Trenberth et al., 2003: The Second Report on the Adequacy of the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC. GCOS-82, WMO/TD 1143. 84pp.

Trenberth, K. E. and D. P. Stepaniak, 2003: Seamless poleward atmospheric energy transports. 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations 83rd Annual AMS Meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 2003. CD-Rom 14GLOBAL Paper12.3.

Trenberth, K. E., and A. Dai, 2003: Evaluations of estimates of freshwater discharge from continents. Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; 83rd Annual AMS Meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 2003. CD-Rom VARIH2O paper J2.6.

Dai, A., and K. E. Trenberth, 2003: New estimates of continental discharge and oceanic freshwater transport. Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; 83rd Annual AMS Meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 2003. CD-Rom VARIH2O Paper JP1.11.

Dai, A., and K. E. Trenberth, 2003: Diurnal variations in the Community Climate System Model. 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations 83rd Annual AMS Meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 2003. CD-Rom 14Global Paper 9.2

Rasmussen, R. M., J. Hack, P. LeMone, M. Moncrieff, D. Parsons, K. E. Trenberth, T. Warner and J. Wilson, 2003: The Water Cycle Across Scales: An NCAR initiative. Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; 83rd Annual AMS Meeting, Long Beach, CA, February 2003. CD-Rom VARIH2O Paper J7.11

Trenberth, K. E., and D. P. Stepaniak, 2003: Heat budgets and poleward atmospheric energy transports. Seventh Intl Conf. Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography. Wellington, New Zealand. 24-28 Mar 2003. 7--9.

Trenberth, K. E., and A. Dai, 2003: New estimates of continental discharge and oceanic freshwater transport. Seventh Intl Conf. Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography. Wellington, New Zealand. 24-28 Mar 2003. 180--182.

Dai, A., and K. E. Trenberth, 2003: New estimates of continental discharge and oceanic freshwater transport. Paper presented at the Symposium on Observing and understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, 9-13 Feb. 2003, Long Beach, CA.

1994-1998

Trenberth, Kevin E. and Amy Solomon: 1994: The global heat balance: heat transports in the atmosphere and ocean. Climate Dynamics, 10, 3, 107-134. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E. and J. W. Hurrell, 1994:Decadal atmosphere--ocean variations in the Pacific. Climate Dynamics, 9, 303--319. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E. and J. W. Hurrell, 1995: Decadal coupled atmosphere-ocean variations in the North Pacific Ocean. In Climate change and northern fish populations. Canad. Spec. Publ. Fisheries Aquatic Sciences. R. J. Beamish (Ed.) 121, 15-24.

Trenberth, K. E., 1995: Truncation and use of model-coordinate data.Tellus, 47, 287-303.

Trenberth, K. E., J. W. Hurrell and A. Solomon, 1995: Conservation of mass in three dimensions. J. Climate, 8, 692-708. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and C. J. Guillemot, 1995: Evaluation of the global atmospheric moisture budget as seen from analyses. J. Climate, 8, 2255-2272. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 1995: Atmospheric circulation climate changes. Climatic Change, 31, 427-453.

Karl, T., F. Bretherton, W. Easterling and K. Trenberth, 1995: Long-term climate monitoring of the global climate observing system (GCOS). An editorial. Climatic Change, 31, 135-147.

Trenberth, K. E., 1995: Long-term climate monitoring of the global climate observing system (GCOS). Report of Breakout Group B – Climatic responses and feedbacks. An editorial. Climatic Change, 31, 163-180.

Guillemot C. J., and K. E. Trenberth, 1995: ENSO: SST monthly mean anomalies Pacific Sector. Jan. 1982-1994, 4 minutes 20 seconds, plus handout.

Trenberth, K. E., and J. W. Hurrell, 1995: Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales. D.G. Martinson, K. Bryan, M. Ghil, M.M. Hall, T.R. Karl, E.S. Sarachik, S. Sorooshian, and L.D. Talley, eds. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 472-482.

Trenberth, K. E., and C. J. Guillemot, 1995: Influence of sea surface temperatures and large-scale atmospheric dynamics on the 1988 drought and 1993 floods in North America. Proc. Intl. Conf. TOGA Prog., Melbourne, Australia, 3-7 April, 1995. WCRP-91, WMO/TD 717, 93-97.

Trenberth, K. E., 1995: Decadal variability in ENSO and extratropical teleconnections: Evidence of global warming? Proc. Intl. Conf. TOGA Prog., Melbourne, Australia, 3-7 April, 1995. WCRP-91, WMO/TD 717, 57-61.

Trenberth, K. E., 1995: Decadal variability and climate change in the atmosphere and ocean. Proc. First summer Inst. NOAA Postdoc Program in Climate and Global Change. 13-17 June 1994, Steamboat Springs. 67-68.

Karl, T., F. Bretherton, W. Easterlint, K. Ttenbertt and R. G. Quayle, 1995: Long-term climate monitoring of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Earth System Monitor.

Karl, T., F. Bretherton, W. Easterling, K. Trenberth and R. G. Quayle, 1995: Long-term climate monitoring of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). GCOS Newsletter, May 1995, 4-6.

Trenberth, K. E., and C. J. Guillemot, 1995: Evaluation of the global atmospheric moisture budget as seen from analyses. Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling. Rep. 21. WMO/TD-No. 665. 2.28

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: Using atmospheric budgets as a constraint on surface fluxes. WCRP Workshop on ``Air-sea flux fields for forcing ocean models and validating GCMs''. ECMWF, Reading, U.K. Oct 24-27, 1995. WCRP-95, WMO/TD 762. 99-105.

Trenberth, K. E., and T. J. Hoar, 1996: The 1990-1995 El Niño-Southern Oscillation event: Longest on record. Proc. Symposium on Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (GOALS). Atlanta, 28 January-2 February 1996, 84-87.

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: The climate system and climate variability. Seventh Symposium on Global Change Studies. Atlanta, 28 January-2 February 1996, 1-4.

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: Variability, climate and weather: El Niño teleconnections. Proc. An Institute on the Economics of the Climate Resource. 5-7 June 1995, Boulder CO., 91-116.

Ware, R., M. Exner, D. Feng, M. Gorbunov, K. Hardy, B. Herman, W. Kuo, T. Meehan, W. Melbourne, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, S. Sokolovskiy, F. Solheim, X. Zou, R. Anthes, S. Businger and K. Trenberth, 1996: GPS sounding of the atmosphere from low Earth orbit: Preliminary results. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 77, 19-40.

Trenberth, K. E., and T. J. Hoar, 1996: The 1990-1995 El Niño-Southern Oscillation Event: Longest on record. Geophys. Res. Lttrs., 23, 57-60.[PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and C. J. Guillemot, 1996: Physical processes involved in the 1988 drought and 1993 floods in North America. J. Climate, 9, 1288-1298. [Abstract]

Hurrell, J. W., and K. E. Trenberth, 1996: Satellite versus surface estimates of air temperature since 1979. J. Climate, 9, 2222-2232. [PDF] [Abstract]

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: Coupled climate system modelling, Chapter 3 of Climate Change, Developing Southern Hemisphere Perspectives Editors: T. Giambelluca and A. Henderson-Sellers. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 475pp, 63-88.

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: El Niño - Southern Oscillation, Chapter 6 of: Climate Change, Developing Southern Hemisphere Perspectives Editors: T. Giambelluca and A. Henderson-Sellers. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 475pp, 145-173.

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: What is happening to El Niño? 1996 Yearbook of Science and the Future. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 88-99.

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: What's happening to El Niño? 1996 Book of the Year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, p 164.

Trenberth, K. E., and C. J. Guillemot, 1996: Evaluation of the atmospheric moisture and hydro logical cycle in the NCEP reanalyses. NCAR Technical Note NCAR/TN-430+STR, 300 pp.

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: General circulation studies using NCEP reanalyses. Harry van Loon Symposium: Studies in Climate II, 21-22 October 1996, NCAR/TN-433+PROC, 30-43.

Trenberth, K. E., J. T. Houghton, and L. G. Meira Filho. 1996: The climate system: An overview. Chapter 1 of Climate Change 1995. The science of Climate Change. Contribution of WG 1 to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filho, B. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell (eds). Cambridge University Press. 51-64.

Trenberth, K. E. et al., 1996: Technical summary of Climate Change 1995. The science of Climate Change. Contribution of WG 1 to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filho, B. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell (eds). Cambridge University Press. 9-49.

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: Decadal variability in the Northern Hemisphere. JCESS/CLIVAR workshop on Decadal Climate Variability. Columbia MD, 22-24 April 1996. 5pp (no page numbers).

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: The global atmospheric moisture budget as seen from analyses. Second Intl Sci. Conf. on GEWEX. Wash. D.C. 17-21 June 1996. 48-49.

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: Decadal variability in ENSO and extratropical teleconnections. Intl. wkshp on Ocean Climate Variations from Seasons to Decades with Special Emphasis on Pacific Ocean Buoy Network. Mutsu City, Japan, 29-31 May 1996, JAMSTEC. 300-302.

Trenberth, K., and A. Clarke 1996: Editorial, Exchanges, 1, 1, 3-4.

Santer, B. D., K. E. Trenberth et al. (40 authors) 1996: Letter to Wall Street Journal on IPCC process. 25 June 1996.

Epstein, P, G. Grabherr, T. Karl, E. Mosley-Thompson, K. Trenberth and G. M. Woodwell, 1996. Current effects of climate change. An Ozone Action Round Table. 48 pp.

Clarke, A., and K. E. Trenberth 1996: News from the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group. Exchanges, 1, 3, 1-2.

Trenberth, K. E., 1996: El Niño definition. Exchanges, 1, 3, 6-8.

Clarke, A., K. E. Trenberth and M. Coughlan 1996: CLIVAR: Climate variability and predictability. WCRP Newsletter No 1. 9-11.

Kiehl, J. T., and K. E. Trenberth, 1997: Earth's annual global mean energy budget. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 78, 197-208. [Paper (.pdf)]

Trenberth, K. E., 1997: Using atmospheric budgets as a constraint on surface fluxes. J. Climate, 10, 2796-2809. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 1997: Short-term climate variations: Recent accomplishments and issues for future progress. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 78, 1081-1096.

Hurrell, J. W., and K. E. Trenberth, 1997: Spurious trends in the satellite MSU temperature record arising from merging different satellite records. Nature, 386, 164-167.

Trenberth, K. E., 1997: The use and abuse of climate models in climate change research. Nature, 386, 131-133. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., and J. W. Hurrell, 1997: How accurate are satellite `thermometers'. Nature, 389, 342-343.

Trenberth, K. E., 1997: The definition of El Niño. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 78, 2771-2777. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 1997: Global Warming: It's happening. naturalSCIENCE, 1, article 9. (Electronic journal.)

Trenberth, K. E., and T. J. Hoar, 1997: El Niño and climate change. Geophys. Res. Lttrs., 24, 3057-3060. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 1997: The science of global climate change. Jobs and Capital, VI, 4, 20-25.

Trenberth, K. E., et al. 1997: CLIVAR. A research programme on climate variability and predictability for the 21st century. Intl. CLIVAR Proj. Office Rep. 101, WCRP/TD No. 853. 48 pp.

Trenberth, K. E., et al. 1997: Common questions about climate change. WMO, UNEP. 24 pp.

Trenberth, K. E., and D. J. Shea, 1997: Atmospheric circulation changes and links to changes in rainfall and drought. Thirteenth Conf. on Hydrology. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Long Beach CA. 2-7 Feb 1997. pp J14-J17 Seventh Conf. on Climate Variations volume.

Trenberth, K. E., 1997: The WCRP CLIVAR Program. Eighth Symp. on Global Change Studies. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Long Beach CA. 2-7 Feb 1997. 13-16

Trenberth, K. E., and J. W. Hurrell, 1997: Satellite versus surface estimates of air temperature since 1979. Eighth Symp. on Global Change Studies. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Long Beach CA. 2-7 Feb 1997. 248-249.

Hurrell, J. W., and K. E. Trenberth, 1997: The MSU2R temperature record: Some puzzling aspects. Eighth Symp. on Global Change Studies. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Long Beach CA. 2-7 Feb 1997. 250-253.

Trenberth, K. E., 1997: Recent changes in El Niño/Southern Oscillation and climatic implications. In Elements of Change 1996, Aspen Global Change Inst. S. J. Hassol and J. Katzenberger Eds. 252-257.

Trenberth K. E., 1997: The heat budget of the atmosphere and ocean. Proc. First Intl. Conf. on Reanalyses, Silver Spring MD. 27-31 October, 1997.

Trenberth K. E., 1997: Evaluation of the atmospheric moisture and hydrological cycle. Proc. First Intl. Conf. on Reanalyses, Silver Spring MD. 27-31 October, 1997,

Trenberth, K. E., 1997: Commentary on Rep. George Brown's article ``Environmental science under seige in the U.S. Congress''. Environment, 39, 4 (May), pp 5 and 40-41.

Trenberth K. E. and A. Clarke, 1997: Climate variability and predictability study (CLIVAR). Report to JSC, JSC-XVIII/Doc 13. March 1997.

Trenberth K. E. and A. Clarke, 1997: Farewell Mike- Welcome Lydia Exchanges, 2, 2, 2-3.

Trenberth, K. E., 1997: Atmospheric moisture residence times and cycling: Implications for how precipitation may change as climate changes. GEWEX News. August 7, 3, pp 1, 4-6, 16.

Clarke, A., and K. E. Trenberth, 1997: Implementing CLIVAR. WCRP Conference. 26-28 August, Geneva Switzerland.

Trenberth K. E. et al., 1997: CLIVAR-Implementation Strategy. WCRP Newsletter 2, 15-18.

Trenberth K. E., 1997: ENSO and Anthropogenic Climate Variations. The ENSO SIGNAL. 8, Sept 1997, 5-6.

Trenberth K. E., 1997: Blaming it on El Niño. Letter to editor on Krauthammer Viewpoint column, TIME, December 8, p 8.

Trenberth, K. E., and C. J. Guillemot, 1998: Evaluation of the atmospheric moisture and hydrological cycle in the NCEP/NCAR reanalyses. Climate Dyn., 14, 213-231. [PDF]

Hurrell, J. W., and K. E. Trenberth, 1998: Difficulties in obtaining reliable temperature trends: Reconciling the surface and satellite MSU Records. J. Climate, 11, 945-967. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., G. W. Branstator, D. Karoly, A. Kumar, N-C. Lau, and C. Ropelewski, 1998: Progress during TOGA in understanding and modeling global teleconnections associated with tropical sea surface temperatures. J. Geophys. Res., 103 (special TOGA issue), 14291-14324. [PDF]

Trenberth, K. E., 1998: Atmospheric moisture residence times and cycling: Implications for rainfall rates with climate change. Climatic Change, 39, 667-694. [PDF]

Sun, D-Z, and K. E. Trenberth, 1998: Coordinated heat removal from the tropical Pacific during the 1986-87 El Niño. Geophys. Res. Lttrs., 25, 2659-2662.

Dai, A., K. E. Trenberth and T. R. Karl 1998: Global variations in droughts and wet spells: 1900-1995. Geophys. Res. Lttrs., 25, 3367-3370.

Trenberth, K. E., 1998: El Niño and global warming. Current: The J. Marine Education, 15, 12-18.

Trenberth, K. E., and C. J. Guillemot, 1998: Estimating evaporation-minus-precipitation as a residual of the atmospheric water budget. Chapter 7.1 of "Global energy and water cycles" K. Browning and R. Gurney (Eds.), Cambridge University Press. 236-246.

Trenberth, K. E., K. Miller, L. Mearns, and S. Rhodes, 1998: Weather Associated with Changing Climate and Consequences for Human Activities. Understanding Global Change: Earth Science and Human Impacts Series, Global Change Instruction Program, UCAR. To be published by University Science Books. 46 pp.

Trenberth, K. E., et al. 1998: The CLIVAR Initial Implementation Plan WCRP 103, WMO/TD 869, ICPO 14, 342 pp.ß

Henson, R. and K. E. Trenberth, 1998: Children of the Tropics: El Niño and La Niña. Learning about Science Easily and Readily Series (LASERS), NCAR

Dai, A., K. E. Trenberth and T. R. Karl, 1998: Recent large-scale changes in droughts and floods. Proc. Amer. Met. Soc. 9th Symp. Global Change Studies. 11-16 Jan. 1998. Phoenix AZ. 252-253.

Dai, A., K. E. Trenberth and T. R. Karl, 1998: Evidence of hydrological effects on diurnal temperature range. Proc. Amer. Met. Soc. 9th Symp. Global Change Studies. 11-16 Jan. 1998. Phoenix AZ. 251-252.

Trenberth K. E., 1998: Implementation of CLIVAR. COARE-98. Proc. Conf on the TOGA Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE). Boulder CO, 7-14 July 1998. WMO/TD 940, 148-149.

Clarke, R. A., and K. E. Trenberth, 1998: Implementing CLIVAR. Proc. Conference on the WCRP: Achievements, benefits and challenges. 26-28 August 1997, Geneva, Switzerland. WMO/TD-904, 222-225.

Trenberth, K. E., 1998: A case for slowing the pace of climate change. SOLAR '98 - ``Creating the Right Climate'', Proc. 36th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society. Christchurch, New Zealand 25-27 Nov, 1998, 200-207.

Trenberth K. E. and A. Clarke, 1998: Preface, CLIVAR Initial Implementation Plan. WCRP 103, WMO/TD 869, ICPO 14, 1-2.

Clarke, A., and K. E. Trenberth, 1998: Changes at the WOCE and CLIVAR International Project Offices. WOCE Newsletter. Spring 1998.

Clarke, A., and K. E. Trenberth, 1998: New Director of the ICPO. Exchanges, 3, 1, 1-2.

Trenberth K. E. and M. Coughlan, 1998: The 1997-98 El Niño Event. Exchanges, 3, 1, 11-12.

Trenberth K. E., 1998: Development and forecasts of the 1997-98 El Niño: CLIVAR scientific issues, Exchanges, 3, 4-14. https://usclivar.org.

Trenberth K. E., 1998: The different flavors of La Niña. La Niña summit. 15-17 July 1998, Boulder.

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2017

2016

2015

2014

2009-2013

2004-2008

1999-2003

1994-1998

Kevin Trenberth
Distinguished Senior Scientist