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Climate Change Science Essentials



This video series, created as a collaboration between the Utah Climate Center and Utah Extension, comprises 16 bite-size videos covering the basic scientific story of climate change:

  • Earth is warming
  • Because of us
  • Disrupting the entire planetary climate system
  • With great risk for humans, human civilization, and the human ecosystem

Selected Publications


PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL

Wang, S.-Y., R. E. Davies, and R. R. Gillies, 2013: Identification of extreme precipitation threat across midlatitude regions based on short-wave circulations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 11059-11074 (pdf)

Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, R. Martin, R. E. Davies, and M. R. Booth, 2012: Connecting subseasonal movements of the winter ridge in western North America to inversion climatology in Cache Valley, Utah. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 51, 617-627. (pdf)

Wang, S.-Y., Davies, R. E., Huang, W. R., Gillies, R. R. (2011). “Pakistan’s two-stage monsoon and links with the recent climate change.” Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 116, D16114, 15 PP., 2011

M.S. Neel, J.J. Thorn, V.W. Donato, G. S. Bergreen, R.E. Davies, and M. Beck, “Observing the Quantum Behavior of Light in an Undergraduate Laboratory,” Am. J. Phys. 72 (9), September 2004

Davies, R.E. and J.R. Dennison, “Evolution of Secondary Electron Emission Characteristics of Spacecraft Surfaces”, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1997


BOOK CHAPTERS

Wang, S.-Y., Davies, R., Gillies, R. R., Jin, J. (2011). Changing Monsoon Extremes and Dynamics: Example in Pakistan, in J. Zhao & W. Higgins (Ed.), NOAA NWS, Science & Technology Infusion Climate Bulletin. pp. 61-68

Davies, R.E. (In Review), An Overview on the Science of Climate Change and Implications at the Community Level, in D. Albrecht and P. Lahapelle (Ed.), Approaches to Address Climate Change at the Community Level (Routledge, 2017).


ESSAYS

“Finding Words”, Isotope, a Journal of Science and Literature, Iss. 6.2, Fall/Winter 2008


SOLICITED OP-ED

“Don’t base energy policy on a few outliers”, Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Nov., 2009

“Global Warming Skeptic Aims to Mislead”, Deseret Morning News, 16 Nov., 2007

“Space Station is Worth It”, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar., 2001.