Siler, N., Koszuta, M., Rahimi, S., Norris, J., Hall, A., and Ullrich, P.: Examining the robustness of weakened orographic influence on precipitation in downscaled climate projections over the western US. Geophys. Res. Lett. In prep.
Liu, W. and Rahimi, S.: Energy production tradeoffs: Future western U.S. wind energy suffers if fossil fuels unmitigated. J. Geopys. Res.-Atmos. In prep.
Corrie, T., Rhoades, a., and Rahimi, S.: Does Bias Correction matter when analyzing simulated climate projections from an Atmospheric River? Part I. J. Climate, In prep.
Rahimi, S., Huang, L., Thackerary, C. W., Tarouilly, E., Norris, J., Risser, M. D., Rhoades, A. R., Bass, B., Hall, A., Lebo, Z. J., Liu, W., Lehner, F., Dixit, A., and Corrie, T.: Bias correction reshapes the future risk of California's megaflood, Sci. Advances. In prep.
Koszuta, M., Siler, N., Rupp, D., Leung, R., Bowers, J. E., Rahimi, S., and Hall, A.: Leveraging an economic indicator as a precipitation flashiness index (PFI): Example from the Western United States, Bull. American Met. Soc. In prep.
Cropper, S., Thackeray, C. W., Bass, B., Huang, L., Norris, J., Rahimi, S., Sukhdeo, R., and Hall, A.: Seasonal Soil Moisture Dynamics Constrain Projected Future Drying Over Interior Western United States, Comms. Earth & Environ. In prep.
Smith, K., Geerts, B., Adhikari, P., Day, K., Rahimi, S., Shuman, B., Xue, L., and Schneider, T.: Evaluation of CONUS404 cold-season precipitation and snowpack over the mountainous western United States. J. Hydrometeor. In prep.
Cowherd, M., Rahimi, S., Zeppetello, L. V., Hall, A., and Girotto, M.: Future snow drought drivers are topographically dependent, Water Resources Res. In prep.
Krantz, W., Goldenson, G., Pierce, D. W., Simpson, I., Norris, J.,Lin, Y-H., Chen, D., Cayan, D., Rahimi, S., and Hall, A.: Decision relevant GCM evaluation for studying climate change in California, J. Geophys. Res. in prep.
Rhoades, A. M., North, J. S. , Rudisill, W. , Hatchett, B. J. , Risser, M. D. , Beltran-Peña, A., Heggli, A., Hotaling, S., Huning, L. S., LaPlante, M., Mahesh, A., Marshall, A., McCrary, R., McEvoy, D., Rahimi, S., Raleigh, M. S., Randall, C., Srivastava, A., Wehner, M. , Zhou, Y., and Jones, A. D.: Snow-eater heatwaves of the western United States, J. Clim. In review.
Laurinaitis, S., Lebo, Z., Gensini, V., Rahimi, S., Walker, A., and Haberlie, A.: Changes in Lake-Effect Snow across the Great Lakes Revealed Using Dynamically Downscaled Simulations, Nature Clim. & Atmos. In review.
Graves, S., Bass, B., Hall, A., Rahimi, S., and Huang, L.: Warming Drives Streamflow Reductions and Intensifies Hydrologic Whiplash, Threatening California's Water Supply, Earth's Future, submitted.
Dixit, A., Rahimi, S., Huang, L., Musselman K., Vano, J. A., Addor, N., and Lehner, F.: Assessing the resolution-dependency of simulated snowpack trends in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Geophys. Res. Lett. In review.
Bass, B., Lettenmaier, D., Pierce, D. W., Rahimi, S., Hall, A., Cayan, D., Krantz, W., Kalansky, J., Rhoades, A., and Ullrich, P.: Unprecedented Shifts in Hydrology are Emerging across California's Critical Basins: An Evaluation from 0.5 to 3.5°C, Water Resources Res. In review.
Schollaert, C., Camponuri, S.,Couper, L., Held, J., Heaney, A., Rahimi, S., Remais, J., and Marlier, M.: Downscaling method matters: Projections of Valley Fever Seasonality in a Warming Climate, AGU Geohealth, In revisions.
Pierce, D. W., Cayan, D. R., Yao, P., Rahimi, S., and Kalansky, J.: LOCA version 2 Hybrid Downscaling. Report to California Energy Commission. In revisions.
Taylor, G., Loikith, P. C., Huikyo, L., Rahimi, S., and Hall, A.: Historical and Future Autumn Rain and Wind Onset over Western North America Using Regional Climate Models. J. Geophys. Res-Atmos., In revisions.
Lund, C., Rahimi, S., Gunshenan, C., and Inouye, M.: Engaging high school students with big, messy, current data. The Science Teacher. In revisions.
Wang, B., Bass, B., Hall, A., Rahimi, S., and Huang, L.: Disentangling Climate and Policy Uncertainties for the Colorado River Post-2026 Operations, Nature Comms., https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63635-4.
Adhikari, P., Geerts, B., Rahimi, S., Shuman, B., Smith, K., and Day, K.: Global Warming Induced Changes in Extreme Precipitation in the Western United States: Projections from Dynamically Downscaled CMIP6 GCMs. Geophys. Res. Lett. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116113.
Madakumbura, G.,Moritz, M., McKinnon, K., Rahimi, S., Norris, J., Bass, B., and Hall, A.: Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California. Science Advances. 2025 Aug 6;11(32):eadt2041, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt2041.
Greenspan, K., Williams, B., Williams H., Rahimi, S., Hall, A., and Huang, L.: Preparing for Uncertain Water Futures: An Analysis of Intrannual Snowpack Processes in the Southern Sierra Nevada Under Climate Change. Geophys. Res. Lett. 2025;52(15):e2025GL115768, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2025GL115768.
Graves, S., Bass, B., Rahimi, S., Dennis, E., Hall, A., and Norris, J.: Methodological Considerations in Climate Attribution: Disparities in Representing the Impact of Climate Change during the 2020–21 Record Breaking Western United States Drought. 2025 Jul 28 [cited 2025 Aug 5]; Available from: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/38/16/JCLI-D-24-0157.1.xml
Risser,, M. D., Feldman, D. R., Boos, W. R., and Rahimi, S.: Upper bounds for 21st-century surface air temperatures in the Western United States. Environ. Res. Lett.., May;20(6):064043, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adda62.
Norris J., Rahimi S., Huang L., Bass B., Thackeray C. W., and Hall A.: Uncertainty of 21st Century western U.S. snowfall loss derived from regional climate model large ensemble. npj Clim Atmos Sci. Apr 1;8(1):1–12. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-01002-2.
Gao, X., Koven, C., Longo, M., Robbins, Z., Buotte, P., Hall, A.; Levis, S., Rahimi, S., Xu, C. and Kueppers, L.: California annual grass phenology and allometry influence ecosystem dynamics and fire regime in a vegetation demography model, New Phytologist. http://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20421.
Jorge, E-B., Fernández-Álvarez, J. C., Rahimi, S., Álvarez-Socorro, G., Carrasco-Pena, P., and Nieto, R.: Projecting Changes in Moisture Sources and Sinks Affecting the US East Coast and Caribbean Sea, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., http://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15289.
Contributing author to Chapter 2 of the workshop report on "Understanding Decision-Relevant Regional Climate Data Products". https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2474992
Rahimi, S., Pierce, D. W., Cayan, D., and Kalansky, J. Memo on WRF Downscaling with Bias Corrected Boundary Conditions. Report to California Energy Commission. https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/e_Memo_2ndSet_WRF_runs_BC_Sept2024_ada.pdf.
Tarouilly, E. G., Rahimi, S. R., Cordeira, J. M., & Lettenmaier, D. P. Did Historical Storms Used in Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) Estimation Reach Maximum Efficiency? A Large Model Ensemble Approach. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(24), e2023JD040055. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040055
Hall, A., Rahimi, S., Norris, J., Ban, N., Siler, N., Leung, L. R., et al. An Evaluation of Dynamical Downscaling Methods Used to Project Regional Climate Change. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(24), e2023JD040591. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040591
Adhikari, P., Geerts, B., Rahimi-Esfarjani, S., Smith, K., Shuman, B. N., & Schneider, T. L.: Evaluation of the mountain hydroclimate across the western United States in dynamically downscaled climate models. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 1(aop). https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-24-0063.1
Rhoades, A. M., Zarzycki, C.M., Hatchett, B.J., Inda-Diaz, H., Rudisill, W., Bass, B. Dennis, E., Heggli, A., McCrary, R., McGinnis, S., Omabadi, M., Rahimi-Esfarjani, S., Slinksey, E., Srivastava, A., Szinai, J., Ullrich, P. A., Wehner, M., Yates, D., and Jones, A. D.: Anticipating how rain-on-snow events will change through the 21st century: lessons from the 1997 new year’s flood event. Clim Dyn. 2024 Sep 1;62(9):8615–37. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-024-07351-7.
Cowherd, M., Mital, U., Rahimi, S., Girotto, M., Schwartz, A., & Feldman, D.: Climate change-resilient snowpack estimation in the Western United States. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01496-3
Werapitiya, G., McCoy, D., Elsaesser, G., Field, P., and Rahimi, S..: Meteorology Modulates the Impact of GCM Horizontal Resolution on Underestimation of Midlatitude Ocean Wind Speeds. Geophysical Research Letters 51, no. 13, e2024GL108512. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108512.
Bass, B., Thackeray, C. W., Hall, A., Rahimi, S. and Huang, L.. A Novel Emergent Constraint Approach for Refining Regional Climate Model Projections of Peak Flow Timing. Geophysical Research Letters 51, no. 12, e2024GL108575. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108575.
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.