Kevin E. Trenberth

Research interests

Publications

• Improved Estimates of Changes in Upper Ocean Salinity and the Hydrological Cycle

  Journal of Climate · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-20-0366.1

• Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015

  Science Advances · 2017 · 10.1126/sciadv.1601545

• Attribution of climate extreme events

  Nature Climate Change · 2015 · 10.1038/nclimate2657

• Challenges in Quantifying Changes in the Global Water Cycle

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-13-00212.1

• Global warming and changes in drought

  Nature Climate Change · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2067

• A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change

  Reviews of Geophysics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1002/rog.20022

• Changes in precipitation with climate change

  Climate Research · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.3354/cr00953

• The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission: Early Results

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2008 · 10.1175/bams-89-3-313

• Earth's Global Energy Budget

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2008 · 10.1175/2008bams2634.1

• Changes in Continental Freshwater Discharge from 1948 to 2004

  Journal of Climate · 2008 · 10.1175/2008jcli2592.1

• Estimates of the Global Water Budget and Its Annual Cycle Using Observational and Model Data

  Journal of Hydrometeorology · 2007 · 10.1175/jhm600.1

• Couplings Between Changes in the Climate System and Biogeochemistry

  eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2007

• Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change

  elib (German Aerospace Center) · 2007

• Atlantic hurricanes and natural variability in 2005

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2006 · 10.1029/2006gl026894

• Trends and variability in column-integrated atmospheric water vapor

  Climate Dynamics · 2005 · 10.1007/s00382-005-0017-4

• The ERA‐40 re‐analysis

  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1256/qj.04.176

• A Global Dataset of Palmer Drought Severity Index for 1870–2002: Relationship with Soil Moisture and Effects of Surface Warming

  Journal of Hydrometeorology · 2004 · 10.1175/jhm-386.1

• The Changing Character of Precipitation

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2003 · 10.1175/bams-84-9-1205

• Modern Global Climate Change

  Science · 2003 · 10.1126/science.1090228

• Estimates of Freshwater Discharge from Continents: Latitudinal and Seasonal Variations

  Journal of Hydrometeorology · 2002 · 10.1175/1525-7541(2002)003<0660:eofdfc>2.0.co;2

• Indices of El Niño Evolution

  Journal of Climate · 2001 · 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<1697:lioeno>2.0.co;2

• Estimates of Meridional Atmosphere and Ocean Heat Transports

  Journal of Climate · 2001 · 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<3433:eomaao>2.0.co;2

• Effects of Clouds, Soil Moisture, Precipitation, and Water Vapor on Diurnal Temperature Range

  Journal of Climate · 1999 · 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2451:eocsmp>2.0.co;2

• Progress during TOGA in understanding and modeling global teleconnections associated with tropical sea surface temperatures

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1998 · 10.1029/97jc01444

• The Definition of El Niño

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 1997 · 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2771:tdoeno>2.0.co;2

• Earth's Annual Global Mean Energy Budget

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 1997 · 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<0197:eagmeb>2.0.co;2

• GPS Sounding of the Atmosphere from Low Earth Orbit: Preliminary Results

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0019:gsotaf>2.0.co;2

• Decadal atmosphere-ocean variations in the Pacific

  Climate Dynamics · 1994 · 10.1007/bf00204745

• Recent Observed Interdecadal Climate Changes in the Northern Hemisphere

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 1990 · 10.1175/1520-0477(1990)071<0988:roicci>2.0.co;2

Current projects

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