Publications

Graves, S., Rahimi, S., Bass, B., Dennis, E., Hall, A., and Norris, J.: Conflicting Perspectives on the Impact of Human-Induced Climate Change on the 2020 - 2021 Record Breaking Western United States Drought, J. Climate.

Madakumbura, G.,Moritz, M., McKinnon, K., Rahimi, S., Norris, J., and Hall, A.: 2024: Climate change drives earlier wildfire season onset in California, in prep, https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-883244/v1.

Tarouilly, E., Rahimi, S., Cordeira, J., and Lettenmaier, D.: Did Historical Storms Used in Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) Reach Maximum Efficiency? A Large Model Ensemble Approach. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. In revisions.

Bass, B., Thackeray, C. Hall, A., and Rahimi, S.: A Novel Emergent Constraint Approach for Refining Regional Climate Model Projections of Flood Timing. Geophys. Res. Lett. In review.

Frei, B., Gao, J., Veron, D., Rahimi, S., and Bukovsky, M.: Urbanization and Climate Change Increase Future Coastal Wind Resources in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. In revisions

Norris, J., Rahimi, S., Bass, B., and Hall, A.: Sensitivity of western U.S. snowfall loss to global climate model projections. Nat. Clim. Change, In preparation

Hall, A., Rahimi, S., Norris, J., Ban, N., Siler, N., Leung, R., Ullrich, P., Reed, K., Prein, A., and Qian, Y.: An Evaluation of Dynamical Downscaling methods Used to Project Regional Climate Change. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. In revisions.

Werapitiya, G., McCoy, D., Elsaesser, G., Field, P., and Rahimi, S.:  Meteorology Modulates the Impact of GCM Horizontal Resolution on Midlatitude Ocean Wind Speed Biases. Geophys. Res. Lett. In revisions.

Cowherd, M., Mital, M., Rahimi, S., Girotto, M., Schwartz, A., and Felman, D.: Climate change-resilient snowpack estimation in the Western United States, Commun. Earth Environ. In review.

 Risser, M. D., Rahimi, S., Goldenson, N., Hall, A., Lebo, Z. J., and Feldman, D. R.: Is Bias Correction in Dynamical Downscaling Defensible?, Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL105979, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105979

 Rahimi, S., Huang, L., Norris, J., Hall, A., Goldenson, N., Risser, M., Feldman, D. R., Lebo, Z. J., Dennis, E., and Thackeray, C.: Understanding the Cascade: Removing GCM Biases Improves Dynamically Downscaled Climate Projections, Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106264, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106264

Rahimi, S., Huang, L., Norris, J., Hall, A., Goldenson, N., Krantz, W., Bass, B., Thackeray, C., Lin, H., Chen, D., Dennis, E., Collins, E., Lebo, Z. J., Slinskey, E., Graves, S., Biyani, S., Wang, B., Cropper, S., and the UCLA Center for Climate Science Team: An overview of the Western United States Dynamically Downscaled Dataset (WUS-D3), Geoscientific Model Development, 17, 2265–2286, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2265-2024.

Marshall, A. M., Abatzoglou, J. T., Rahimi, S., Lettenmaier, D. P., and Hall, A.: California’s 2023 snow deluge: Contextualizing an extreme snow year against future climate change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121, e2320600121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2320600121,

Fernández-Alvarez, J. C., Pérez-Alarcón, A., Eiras-Barca, J., Rahimi, S., Nieto, R., & Gimeno, L. Projected changes in atmospheric moisture transport contributions associated with climate warming in the North Atlantic. Nature Communications, 14(1), 6476. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41915-1

Rhoades, Alan M., Zarzycki, C. M., Inda-Diaz, A. H., Ombadi, M., Pasquier, U., Srivastava, A., Hatchett, B. J., Dennis, E., Heggli, A., McCrary, R., McGinnis, S., Rahimi-Esfarjani, S., Slinskey, E., Ullrich, P. A., Wehner, M., and Jones, A. D.: Recreating the California New Year’s Flood Event of 1997 in a Regionally Refined Earth System Model.” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 15, no. 10. e2023MS003793. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003793.

Goldenson, N., Leung, L. R., Mearns, L. O., Pierce, D. W., Reed, K. A., Simpson, I. R., Ullrich, P., Krantz, W., Hall, A., Jones, A., and Rahimi, S.: Use-Inspired, Process-Oriented GCM Selection: Prioritizing Models for Regional Dynamical Downscaling, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 1, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0100.1.

Bass, B., Goldenson, N., Rahimi, S., and Hall, A.: Aridification of Colorado River Basin’s Snowpack Regions Has Driven Water Losses Despite Ameliorating Effects of Vegetation, Water Resources Research, 59, e2022WR033454, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033454.

Bass, B., Rahimi, S., Goldenson, N., Hall, A., Norris, J., and Lebow, Z. J.: Achieving Realistic Runoff in the Western United States with a Land Surface Model Forced by Dynamically Downscaled Meteorology, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24, 269–283, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0047.1.

Fernández-Alvarez, J. C., Pérez-Alarcón, A., Eiras-Barca, J., Ramos, A. M., Rahimi-Esfarjani, S., Nieto, R., and Gimeno, L.: Changes in Moisture Sources of Atmospheric Rivers Landfalling the Iberian Peninsula With WRF-FLEXPART, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD037612, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037612.

Fernández-Alvarez, J. C., Costoya, X., Pérez-Alarcón, A., Rahimi, S., Nieto, R., and Gimeno, L.: Dynamic downscaling of wind speed over the North Atlantic Ocean using CMIP6 projections: Implications for offshore wind power density, Energy Reports, 9, 873–885, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2022.12.036.

Rahimi-Esfarjani, S.: Memo on the Evaluation of Downscaled GCM Using WRF, Report to California Energy Commission. https://cal-adapt.org/files/01_Memo_Evaluation_of_Downscaled_GCMs_Using_WRF_CEC_final.pdf

Rahimi-Esfarjani, S.: Memo on the Development and Availability of Dynamically Downscaled Projections Using WRF, Report to California Energy Commission. https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/20220907_CDAWG_MemoDynamicalDownscaling_EPC-20-006_May2022-ADA.pdf.

Gleason, K. E., McConnell, J. R., Arienzo, M. M., Sexstone, G. A., and Rahimi, S.: Black carbon dominated dust in recent radiative forcing on Rocky Mountain snowpacks, Environ. Res. Lett., 17, 054045, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac681b.

Wei, L., Lu, Z., Wang, Y., Liu, X., Wang, W., Wu, C., Zhao, X., Rahimi, S., Xia, W., and Jiang, Y.: Black carbon-climate interactions regulate dust burdens over India revealed during COVID-19, Nat Commun, 13, 1839, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29468-1.

Rahimi, S., Krantz, W., Lin, Y.-H., Bass, B., Goldenson, N., Hall, A., Lebo, Z. J., and Norris, J.: Evaluation of a Reanalysis-Driven Configuration of WRF4 Over the Western United States From 1980 to 2020, J. Geophys. Res: Atmos., 127, e2021JD035699, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035699.

 Abell, J. T., Rahimi, S. R., Pullen, A., Lebo, Z. J., Zhang, D., Kapp, P., Gloege, L., Ridge, S., Nie, J., and Winckler, G. 2020: A Quantitative Model-Based Assessment of Stony Desert Landscape Evolution in the Hami Basin, China: Implications for Plio-Pleistocene Dust Production in Eastern Asia, Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL090064, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090064.

Walton, D., Berg, N., Pierce, D., Maurer, E., Hall, A., Lin, Y.-H., Rahimi, S., and Cayan, D. 2020: Understanding Differences in California Climate Projections Produced by Dynamical and Statistical Downscaling, J. Geophys. Res: Atmos., 125, e2020JD032812, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032812.

Rahimi, S., Liu, X., Zhao, C., Lu, Z., and Lebo, Z. J. 2020: Examining the atmospheric radiative and snow-darkening effects of black carbon and dust across the Rocky Mountains of the United States using WRF-Chem, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 10911–10935, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10911-2020.

Rahimi, S., Liu, X., Wu, C., Lau, W. K., Brown, H., Wu, M., and Qian, Y. 2019: Quantifying snow darkening and atmospheric radiative effects of black carbon and dust on the South Asian monsoon and hydrological cycle: experiments using variable-resolution CESM, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 12025–12049, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12025-2019.

Rahimi, S. R., Wu, C., Liu, X., and Brown, H. 2019: Exploring a Variable-Resolution Approach for Simulating Regional Climate Over the Tibetan Plateau Using VR-CESM, J. Geophys. Res: Atmos., 124, 4490–4513, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028925.

Wu, C., Liu, X., Lin, Z., Rahimi-Esfarjani, S. R., and Lu, Z. 2018: Impacts of absorbing aerosol deposition on snowpack and hydrologic cycle in the Rocky Mountain region based on variable-resolution CESM (VR-CESM) simulations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 511–533, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-511-2018.

 Wu, C., Liu, X., Lin, Z., Rhoades, A. M., Ullrich, P. A., Zarzycki, C. M., Lu, Z., and Rahimi‐Esfarjani, S. R. 2017: Exploring a Variable-Resolution Approach for Simulating Regional Climate in the Rocky Mountain Region Using the VR-CESM, J. Geophys. Res: Atmos., 122, 10,939-10,965, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027008.

Shapiro, A., Fedorovich, E., and Rahimi, S. 2016: A Unified Theory for the Great Plains Nocturnal Low-Level Jet, J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 3037–3057, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-15-0307.1.

 Shapiro, A., Rahimi, S., Potvin, C. K., and Orf, L. 2015: On the Use of Advection Correction in Trajectory Calculations, J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 4261–4280, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-15-0095.1.