Paper of the Year Award

CSG JOHN RUSSELL MATHER PAPER OF THE YEAR AWARD

As a result of a generous donation, the CSG awards the John Russell Mather Paper of the Year designation annual to an outstanding paper in climate science. Annual winners receive a commemorative plaque and a letter of citation, in addition to a cash award. An announcement will be made at the CSG Business Meeting by the Awards Committee. The winner will be recognized at the AAG awards luncheon (CSG sponsors cost for attending luncheon). 

PREVIOUS AWARD WINNERS:

2025 - Zhiying Li (Indiana University - Bloomington) with Jason Smerdon, Richard Seager, Noel Siegert and Justin Mankin: "Emergent trends complicate the interpretation of the United States Drought Monitor (USDM)." AGU Advances 5(2) e2023AV001070. (link to it here)

2024 - Jonathon Preece (University of Georgia) with Thomas Mote, Judah Cohen, Lori Wachowicz, John Knox, Marco Tedesco, and Gabriel Kooperman: "Summer atmospheric circulation over Greenland in response to Arctic amplification and diminished spring snow cover." Nature Communications, 14(1), p.3759. (link to it here)

2023 - Victoria Ford (Texas A&M University) with Oliver Frauenfeld. "Arctic precipitation recycling and hydrologic budget changes in response to sea ice loss." Global Planetary Change, 209 (link to it here)

2022 - Yuechun Wang (Ohio State University) with Steven Quiring. "Observed Influence of Soil Moisture on the North American Monsoon: An Assessment Using the Stepwise Generalized Equilibrium Feedback Assessment Method" Journal of Climate, 34, 2021 (link to it here)

2021 - Ariane Middel (Arizona State University) with V. Kelly Turner, Florian Schneider, Yujia Zhang, and Matthew Stiller. "Solar Reflective Pavements--A Policy Panacea to Heat Mitigation?" Environmental Research Letters, 15, 2020 (link to it here)

2020 - Matthew Dannenberg (University of Iowa) with Erika Wise and William Smith. "Reduced Tree Growth in the Semiarid United States due to Asymmetric Responses to Intensifying Precipitation Extremes" Science Advances, 5, 2019 (link to it here)

2019 - Jonathan Winter (Dartmouth College) with Fiona Bowen, Trevor Partridge, and Jonathan Chipman. "Future Extreme Event Risk in the Rural Northeastern United States" Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109: 1110-1130, 2018 (link to it here)

2018 - Kyle S. Mattingly (University of Georgia) with Lynne Seymour, Paul W. Miller. "Estimates of Extreme Precipitation Frequency Derived from Spatially Dense Rain Gauge Observations: A Case Study of Two Urban Areas in the Colorado Front Range Region" Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107: 1499-1518, 2017 (link to it here)

2017 - Justin Maxwell (Indiana University) with Grant L. Harley, Scott M. Robeson. "On the Declining Relationship Between Tree Growth and Climate in the Mid- west United States: the Fading Drought Signal" Climate Change, DOI:10.1007/s10584-016-1720-3. (link to it here)

2016 - Liang Chen (George Mason University) with O.W. Frauenfeld. "Impacts of urbanization on future climate in China." Climate Dynamics (in press).

2015 - Erika K. Wise (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) with M.P. Dannenberg. "Persistence of pressure patterns over North America and the North Pacific since AD 1500." Nature Communications, 5:4912, DOI:10.1038/ncomms5912, 2014 (link to it here)

2014 - Laiyin Zhu (Johns Hopkins University) with O.W. Frauenfeld and S.M. Quiring."Seasonal tropical cyclone precipitation in Texas: A statistical modeling approach based on a 60 year climatology" Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 118:8842-8856, DOI:10.1002/jgrd.50663, 2013 (link to it here)

2013 - None

2012 - Asher B. Siebert (Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey) with M.N. Ward. "Future Occurrence of Threshold-Crossing Seasonal Rainfall Totals: Methodology and Applications to Sites in Africa." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 50:560-578, DOI:10.1175/2010JAMC2530.1, 2011 (link to it here)

2011 - Justin T. Schoof (Southern Illinois University) with S.C. Pryor and J. Suprenant. "Development of daily precipitation projections for the United States based on probabilistic downscaling." Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 115, D13106, doi:10.1029/2009JD013030, 2010 (link to it here)

2010 - Hengchun Ye (California State University - Los Angeles) with Eric J. Fetzer. "Atmospheric moisture content associated with surface air temperatures over northern Eurasia." International Journal of Climatology 30:1463-1471, www.interscience.wiley.com, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1991 (link to it here)

2009 - Lei Meng (Texas A&M University) with Steven Quirin. "A Comparison of Soil Moisture Models Using Soil Climate Analysis Network Observations." Journal of Hydrometeorology 9:641-659 (link to it here)

2008 - Kevin Law (Marshall University) with Jay S. Hobgood. "A Statistical Model to Forecast Short-Term Atlantic Hurricane Intensity." Weather and Forecasting 22:967-980 (link to it here)

2007 - Mark D. Schwartz (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) with Rein Ahas and Anto Aasa. "Onset of spring starting earlier across the Northern Hemisphere." Global Change Biology 12:343-351 (link to it here)

2006 - Oliver W. Frauenfeld (University of Colorado) with R.E. Davis and M.E. Mann. "A distinctly interdecadal signal of Pacific ocean-atmosphere interaction." Journal of Climate 18:1709-1718 (link to it here)

2005 - None

2004 - Robert E. Davis (University of Virginia) with P.C. Knappenberger, W.M. Novicoff, and P.J. Michaels. "Decadal changes in summer mortality in U.S. cities." International Journal of Biometeorology 47:166-175 (link to it here)

2003 - Scott Robeson (Indiana University). "Relationships between mean and standard deviation of air temperature: implications for global warming." Climate Research 22:205-213 (link to it here)

2002 - Franco Biondi (University of Nevada - Reno). "North Pacific decadal climate variability since 1661." Journal of Climate 14:5-10 (link to it here)