Publications

Evan, A. T., Porter, W. C., Clemesha, R., Kuwano, A., & Frouin, R. (2023). Characteristics of Dust Storms Generated by Trapped Waves in the Lee of Mountains. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 80(3), 743–761. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0128.1
Aguilera, R., Luo, N., Basu, R., Wu, J., Clemesha, R., Gershunov, A., & Benmarhnia, T. (2023). A novel ensemble-based statistical approach to estimate daily wildfire-specific PM2.5 in California (2006–2020). Environment International, 171, 107719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107719
Guirguis, K., Gershunov, A., Hatchett, B., Shulgina, T., DeFlorio, M. J., Subramanian, A. C., Guzman-Morales, J., Aguilera, R., Clemesha, R., Corringham, T. W., Delle Monache, L., Reynolds, D., Tardy, A., Small, I., & Ralph, F. M. (2022). Winter wet-dry weather patterns driving atmospheric rivers and Santa Ana winds provide evidence for increasing wildfire hazard in California. Climate Dynamics, 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06361-7
Evan, A. T., Porter, W., Clemesha, R., Kuwano, A., & Frouin, R. (2022). Measurements of a dusty density current in the western Sonoran Desert. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 127(8), 22. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jd035830
Schwarz, L., Castillo, E. M., Chan, T. C., Brennan, J. J., Sbiroli, E. S., Carrasco-Escobar, G., Nguyen, A., Clemesha, R. E. S., Gershunov, A., & Benmarhnia, T. (2022). Heat Waves and Emergency Department Visits Among the Homeless, San Diego, 2012–2019. American Journal of Public Health, 112(1), 98–106. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306557
Clemesha, R. E. S., Gershunov, A., Lawson, D. M., Longcore, T., MacDonald, B., Booker, M., Munson, B., & O’Connor, K. (2021). A high-resolution record of coastal clouds and fog and their role in plant distributions over San Clemente Island, California. Environmental Research Communications, 3(10), 16. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ac2894
Gershunov, A., Morales, J. G., Hatchett, B., Guirguis, K., Aguilera, R., Shulgina, T., Abatzoglou, J. T., Cayan, D., Pierce, D., Williams, P., Small, I., Clemesha, R., Schwarz, L., Benmarhnia, T., & Tardy, A. (2021). Hot and cold flavors of southern California’s Santa Ana winds: their causes, trends, and links with wildfire. Climate Dynamics, 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05802-z
Baguskas, S. A., Oliphant, A. J., Clemesha, R. E. S., & Loik, M. E. (2021). Water and Light‐Use Efficiency Are Enhanced Under Summer Coastal Fog in a California Agricultural System. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006193
Dye, A. W., Rastogi, B., Clemesha, R. E. S., Kim, J. B., Samelson, R. M., Still, C. J., & Williams, A. P. (2020). Spatial Patterns and Trends of Summertime Low Cloudiness for the Pacific Northwest, 1996–2017. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(16). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088121
Skaff, N. K., Cheng, Q., Clemesha, R. E. S., Collender, P. A., Gershunov, A., Head, J. R., Hoover, C. M., Lettenmaier, D. P., Rohr, J. R., Snyder, R. E., & Remais, J. V. (2020). Thermal thresholds heighten sensitivity of West Nile virus transmission to changing temperatures in coastal California. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 287(1932). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1065
Ilango, S. D., Weaver, M., Sheridan, P., Schwarz, L., Clemesha, R. E. S., Bruckner, T., Basu, R., Gershunov, A., & Benmarhnia, T. (2020). Extreme heat episodes and risk of preterm birth in California, 2005-2013. Environment International, 137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105541
Gershunov, A., Shulgina, T., Clemesha, R. E. S., Guirguis, K., Pierce, D. W., Dettinger, M. D., Lavers, D. A., Cayan, D. R., Polade, S. D., Kalansky, J., & Ralph, F. M. (2019). Precipitation regime change in Western North America: The role of atmospheric rivers. Scientific Reports, 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46169-w
Guirguis, K., Gershunov, A., Shulgina, T., Clemesha, R. E. S., & Ralph, F. M. (2019). Atmospheric rivers impacting Northern California and their modulation by a variable climate. Climate Dynamics, 52(11), 6569–6583. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4532-5
Guirguis, K., Gershunov, A., Clemesha, R. E. S., Shulgina, T., Subramanian, A. C., & Ralph, F. M. (2018). Circulation drivers of atmospheric rivers at the North American West Coast. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(22), 12576–12584. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl079249
Clemesha, R. E. S., Guirguis, K., Gershunov, A., Small, I. J., & Tardy, A. (2018). California heat waves: their spatial evolution, variation, and coastal modulation by low clouds. Climate Dynamics, 50(11–12), 4285–4301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-3875-7
Wu, E., Clemesha, R. E. S., & Kleissl, J. (2018). Coastal Stratocumulus cloud edge forecasts. Solar Energy, 164, 355–369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2018.02.072
Baguskas, S. A., Clemesha, R. E. S., & Loik, M. E. (2018). Coastal low cloudiness and fog enhance crop water use efficiency in a California agricultural system. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 252, 109–120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.01.015
Simonis, A. E., Roch, M. A., Bailey, B., Barlow, J., Clemesha, R. E. S., Iacobellis, S., Hildebrand, J. A., & Baumann-Pickering, S. (2017). Lunar cycles affect common dolphin Delphinus delphis foraging in the Southern California Bight. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 577, 221–235. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12247
Clemesha, R. E. S., Gershunov, A., Iacobellis, S. F., & Cayan, D. R. (2017). Daily variability of California coastal low cloudiness: A balancing act between stability and subsidence. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(7), 3330–3338. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl073075
Clemesha, R. E. S., Gershunov, A., Iacobellis, S. F., Williams, A. P., & Cayan, D. R. (2016). The northward march of summer low cloudiness along the California coast. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(3), 1287–1295. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015gl067081
Williams, A. P., Schwartz, R. E., Iacobellis, S., Seager, R., Cook, B. I., Still, C. J., Husak, G., & Michaelsen, J. (2015). Urbanization causes increased cloud base height and decreased fog in coastal Southern California. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(5), 1527–1536. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015gl063266
Schwartz, R. E., Gershunov, A., Iacobellis, S. F., & Cayan, D. R. (2014). North American west coast summer low cloudiness: Broadscale variability associated with sea surface temperature. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(9), 3307–3314. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gl059825
Leaitch, W. R., Macdonald, A. M., Brickell, P. C., Liggio, J., Sjostedt, S. J., Vlasenko, A., Bottenheim, J. W., Huang, L., Li, S. M., Liu, P. S. K., Toom-Sauntry, D., Hayden, K. A., Sharma, S., Shantz, N. C., Wiebe, H. A., Zhang, W. D., Abbatt, J. P. D., Slowik, J. G., Chang, R. Y. W., … Ng, N. L. (2011). Temperature response of the submicron organic aerosol from temperate forests. Atmospheric Environment, 45(37), 6696–6704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.08.047
Takahama, S., Schwartz, R. E., Russell, L. M., Macdonald, A. M., Sharma, S., & Leaitch, W. R. (2011). Organic functional groups in aerosol particles from burning and non-burning forest emissions at a high-elevation mountain site. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11(13), 6367–6386. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-6367-2011
Schwartz, R. E., Russell, L. M., Sjostedt, S. J., Vlasenko, A., Slowik, J. G., Abbatt, J. P. D., Macdonald, A. M., Li, S. M., Liggio, J., Toom-Sauntry, D., & Leaitch, W. R. (2010). Biogenic oxidized organic functional groups in aerosol particles from a mountain forest site and their similarities to laboratory chamber products. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10(11), 5075–5088. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-5075-2010