Recent Works
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2025 article
Criteria for prioritizing climate & ocean data preservation
(2025, September 25). Zenodo.
Contributors: K. Wing, R. Blake, S. Diggs, J. Gum, J. Lowndes, M. Parsons, Y. Rao
2025 journal article
Changes in Water-Industry Load on River Water Resources in the Volga-Kama and Angara-Yenisei Reservoir Catchments Under Contemporary Global Warming
WATER, 17(16).
2025 dataset
NOAA Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST), Version 6
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.
Contributors: B. Huang, X. Yin, T. Boyer, C. Liu, M. Menne, Y. Rao , T. Smith, R. Vose, H. Zhang
2025 journal article
Fire and Logging Decrease Soil CO<sub>2</sub> Efflux in Siberian Central Taiga Forests
FORESTS, 16(7).
2025 journal article
The Influence of Drought on Heat Wave Intensity, Duration, and Exposure
JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY, 64(5), 425–438.
2025 article
SA-Score: Measuring Data Sharing Effort through the Lens of Open Science and the FAIR Principles
(2025, June 2). Zenodo.
Contributors: S. Stall, A. Bandrowski, A. Nurnberger, D. Agarwal, J. Anderson, J. Ayliffe, B. Bishop, I. Bruno
2025 article
Urban complexity and digital twins: leveraging machine learning for hyper-local heat stress forecasting
Napoli, C. D., Siemen, S., Oliveira, A., Kihn, E. A., Rao, D., Webster, J. A. B., … Pappenberger, F. (2025, May 21).
2025 journal article
Impacts of drought on respiratory mortality in the upper midwest United States: a population subgroup assessment
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH: HEALTH, 3(2).
2025 article
Projected changes in rare extreme precipitation design values in the United States due to global warming
Kunkel, K. E., Sun, X., & Sun, L. (2025, April 25). FRONTIERS OF EARTH SCIENCE, Vol. 4.
2025 journal article
Long-term spatiotemporal variation in frequency of persistent hot spell events over Africa
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY, 156(5).

2025 journal article
Spatial inequities in greenspace: a spatial durbin model analyzing socio-demographic factors, heat risk, and neighborhood effects
GEOJOURNAL, 90(2).

2025 journal article
Eco-anxiety, climate concern, and fatalistic outlooks: Insights from U.S. crisis text conversations on climate distress
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH, 22.

2025 journal article
Mapping maternity care deserts: Driving distance and health outcomes in North Carolina
JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, 41(2).

2025 journal article
Mental health disparities among maternal populations following heatwave exposure in North Carolina (2011-2019): a matched analysis
LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH-AMERICAS, 42.

2025 journal article
Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 6 (ERSSTv6). Part I: An Artificial Neural Network Approach
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, 38(4), 1105–1121.
Ed(s): Y. Rao n

2025 journal article
Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 6 (ERSSTv6). Part II: Upgrades on Quality Control and Large-Scale Filter
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, 38(4), 1123–1136.
Ed(s): Y. Rao n

2025 journal article
Navigating complex waters: Designing a process for the development of the National Climate Assessment
CLIMATIC CHANGE, 178(3).

2025 journal article
Understanding the organizing scales of winter flood hydroclimatology and the associated drivers over the coterminous United States
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY X, 27.

2025 journal article
Speciation of Trace Metals in the Bottom Sediments of the Mozhaisk Reservoir and the Moskva River
WATER, 17(3).

2025 article
A small area analysis of acute exposure to temperatures and mental health in North Carolina
Ryan, S. C., Wertis, L., Sugg, M. M., & Runkle, J. D. (2025, February 4). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY, Vol. 2.
Contributors: S. Ryan *, L. Wertis *, M. Sugg * & J. Runkle n

2025 journal article
Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 21(1).

2025 review
Improving the reproducibility in geoscientific papers: lessons learned from a Hackathon in climate science
[Review of ]. ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SCIENCE, 4.

2024 article
Credibility Metrics for Student-Assigned Labels of Textual Comments
2024 IEEE FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE, FIE.
2024 journal article
Advancing Understanding on Greenspace and Mental Health in Young People
GeoHealth, 8(3).
Contributors: S. Ryan *, M. Sugg *, J. Runkle* & B. Thapa *
2024 article
Eco-Anxiety, Climate Concern, and Fatalistic Outlooks: Insights from U.S. Crisis Text Conversations on Climate Distress
SSRN. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85201131446&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Contributors: J. Runkle , K. Herbst, S. Ryan, K. Sewell, A. Mallare, I. Berry, E. Getz, M. Thompson, M. Sugg, A. McKee