View publications below by topic (updated Feb 2026; email me for pdfs for papers that you are unable to access):
Reports
Singh, D., A.R. Crimmins, J.M. Pflug, P.L. Barnard, J.F. Helgeson, A. Hoell, F.H. Jacobs, M.G. Jacox, A. Jerolleman, and M.F. Wehner, 2023: Focus on compound events. In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA.
Marvel, K., W. Su, R. Delgado, S. Aarons, A. Chatterjee, M.E. Garcia, Z. Hausfather, K. Hayhoe, D.A. Hence, E.B. Jewett, A. Robel, D. Singh, A. Tripati, and R.S. Vose, 2023: Ch. 2. Climate trends. In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA.
Cohen, and multiple authors, 2018: Arctic change and possible influence on mid-latitude climate and weather. US CLIVAR Report, 2018-1, 41pp
Hydro2k Consortium PAGES2K-PMIP3, “Comparing data and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era”, Climate of the Past, 13, 1851-1900, 2017
Review papers and frameworks
D. L. Swain, Prein, A. F., Abatzoglou, J. , Albano, C. Brunner, M., Diffenbaugh, N.S., Singh D., Skinner, C. B., Touma, D., “Hydroclimate Volatility on a Warming Earth”, Nat Rev Earth Environ 6, 35–50, 2025.
A. Pisor, Touma, D., Singh, D., and Jones, J. To understand climate change adaptation, we must characterize climate variability: Here’s how. One Earth. 6. 1665-1676, 2023
S. McDermid and multiple authors, “Irrigation in the Earth system”. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 4, 435–453, 2023
D. Singh, A. Karembelas, K.F. Davis, A. Chhatre, P. Kinney, and R. DeFries, “A systems perspective on assessing the compound human health impacts of climate change, air quality, and agriculture”, One Earth, 4, 9, 2021
N.S. Diffenbaugh, C.B. Field, and multiple authors, “The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System”, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 1, 470-481, 2020
D. Singh, S. Ghosh, and M.K. Roxy, “Indian Summer Monsoon: Extreme Events, Historical Changes and Role of Anthropogenic Forcings”, (Invited Article) for WIREs Climate Change, 10, 2, e571, 2019
A. Seth, A. Giannini, S. A. Rauscher, S. Bordoni, D. Singh, and S. J. Camargo, “Monsoon Responses to Climate Changes-Similarities and Differences between Regions”, (Invited Article) for Current Climate Change Reports, 5, 2, 63-79, 2019
Temperature extremes
Bekris, Y., Ting. M., Singh, D., Kalashnikov, D., Distinct Characteristics of Contiguous Heatwaves Across Terrestrial, Marine, and Coastal Environments, accepted in Geophysical Research Letters
Singh, J., Singh, D., Sippel, S., and Fischer, E., Emergence of strong trends in humid heat intensity and duration in recent decades over South Asia, Environmental Research: Climate 5 015010, 2026
C. B. Skinner, C.B., Touma, D., Barlow, M., and D. Singh, The spatial extent of heat waves has changed over the past four decades. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 662, 2025
R. Jha, Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S., Singh, D., Kimutai, J., Libonati, R., Mondal, A. (2025). Extreme terrestrial heat in 2024. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6. 234-236. 10.1038/s43017-025-00661-2, 2025
D. Singh, *Bekris, Y., †Rogers, CDW., Doss-Gollin, J.,Coffel, E. D., and *D. Kalashnikov, “Enhanced solar and wind potential during widespread temperature extremes across the U.S. interconnected energy grids.” Environmental Research Letters. 19. 2024
Ivanovich, C. C., Horton, R. M., Sobel, A. H., and Singh, D. “Subseasonal variability of humid heat during the South Asian summer monsoon.” Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107382, 2024
C. Raymond, Waliser, D., Guan, B., Lee, H., Loikith, P., Massoud, E., Sengupta, A., Singh, D., and A. Wootten, “Regional and elevational patterns of extreme heat stress change in the US”, Environmental Research Letters, 17, 6, 2022
†C. Rogers, K. Kornhuber, S. Perkins-KirkPatrick, P. Loikith, and D. Singh, “Seven-fold increase in concurrent large heatwaves across the Northern Hemisphere driven by warming and changing atmospheric circulations”, Journal of Climate, 2022
†C. Rogers, M. Ting, C. Li, K. Kornhuber, E. Coffel, R.M. Horton, C. Raymond, and D. Singh, “Recent increases in exposure to extreme humid-heat events disproportionately affect populated regions”, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094183, 2021
Raymond, C., Singh, D., and Horton, R. M., “Spatiotemporal patterns and synoptics of extreme wet-bulb temperature in the contiguous United States”, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 122, 13, 108-13, 24, 2017
Precipitation
M. Ashfaq, Johnson, N., Kucharski, F., Diffenbaugh, N., Abid, M., Horan, M., Singh, D., Mahajan, S., Ghosh, S., Ganguly, A., Evans, K., Islam, S. The influence of natural variability on extreme monsoons in Pakistan. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6., 148, 2023
†J. Singh, Cook, B., Marvel, K., McDermid, S., Persad, G. G., Rajaratnam, B., andD. Singh, “Anthropogenic aerosols delay the emergence of greenhouse gas forcing on the South Asian monsoon by five decades”, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103949, 2023
D. Bishop, A. P. Williams, R. Seager, R., A.M. Fiore, B. I. Cook, J.S. Mankin, D. Singh, J.E. Smerdon, and M.P. Rao, “Investigating the causes of increased 20th century precipitation over the southeastern United States”, Journal of Climate, 32, 575?590, 2019
D. Singh, M. Bollasina, M. Ting, and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “Disentangling the influence of local and remote anthropogenic aerosols on South Asian Monsoon daily rainfall characteristics”, Climate Dynamics, 52, 9-10, 6301-6320, 2019
D. Singh, S. McDermid, B.I. Cook, M. Puma, L. Nazarenko, and M. Kelley, “Distinct influences of land-cover and land-management on seasonal climate”, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 123, 12,017?12,039, 2018
D. Singh, M. Ting, and A. Scaife, “California Winter Precipitation Predictability: Insights from the anomalous 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons”, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 9972-9980, 2018
Cook, B. I., Williams, A.P, Mankin, J.S., Seager, R., Smerdon, J. E. and D. Singh, “Revisiting the leading drivers of Pacific coastal drought variability in the Contiguous United States”, Journal of Climate, 31, 25-43, 2018
D. Singh, “South Asian Monsoon: Tug of war on rainfall changes”, Nature Climate Change, 6, 2016
D. Singh, Tsiang, M., Rajaratnam, B., and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “Observed Changes in Extreme Wet and Dry Spells in the South Asian Summer Monsoon Season”, Nature Climate Change, 4(6): 456-461, 2014
D. Singh, Tsiang, M., Rajaratnam, B. and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “Precipitation extremes over the continental United States in a transient, high-resolution, ensemble climate model experiment”, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 118 (13), 7063-7086, 2013
Wildfires drivers and impacts
*D. Kalashnikov, Abatzoglou, J. T., Davenport, F. V., Labe, Z. M., Loikith, P. C., Touma, D., & Singh, D. Projections of lightning-ignited wildfire risk in the western United States. Earth’s Future, 13, e2025EF006108, 2025
*D. Kalashnikov, Davenport, F., Labe, Z., Loikith, P., Abatzoglou, J., and D. Singh, “Predicting Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in the Western United States from the Large-Scale Environment using Explainable Neural Networks”, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 129, e2024JD042147, 2024
*D. Kalashnikov, Abatzoglou, J. T., Loikith, P. C., Nauslar, N. J., *Bekris, Y., and D. Singh, “Lightning-ignited wildfires in the western United States: Ignition precipitation and associated environmental conditions”. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103785, 2023
D.L. Swain, J.T. Abatzoglou, C.A. Kolden, K. Shive, *D. Kalashnikov, D. Singh, E. Smith, “Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States. Communications Earth and Environment 4, 340, 2023
D. Kalashnikov, Abatzoglou, J.T., Nauslar, N., Swain, D. L., Touma, D., and D. Singh, “Meteorological and geographical factors associated with dry lightning in central and northern California”, Environ. Research: Climate, 1, 2, 2022
D. Touma, S. Stevenson, D. Swain, D. Singh, *D. Kalashnikov, and X. Huang, “Climate change increases risk of extreme rainfall following wildfire in the western United States”, Science Advances, 8, 13, 2022
D. Kalashnikov, Schnell, J. L., Abatzoglou, J. T., Swain, D. L., and D. Singh, “Increasing co-occurrence of fine particulate matter and ground-level ozone extremes in the western United States”, Science Advances, 8,1 2022
Large-scale circulations
†X. Bai, Loikith, P., Kalashnikov, D.A, Bigalke, S., Liu, P., and D. Singh “Climatology of Atmospheric Ridges across Western North America and their Relationship with ENSO”, Climate Dynamics 64, 4, 2026.
P. Loikith, D. Singh, and G. Taylor, “Projected Changes in Atmospheric Ridges Over the Pacific-North American Region Using CMIP6 Models”, Journal of Climate, 35(15), 5151-5171, 2022
D.L. Swain, Singh, D., Horton, D., Mankin, J. S., Ballard, T., and N. S. Diffenbaugh, “Remote Linkages to Anomalous Winter Atmospheric Ridging Over the Northeastern Pacific”, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 122, 12, 2017, 194-12, 209, 2017
D.L. Swain, Horton, D.E., Singh, D., and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “Trends in atmospheric patterns conducive to seasonal precipitation and temperature extremes in California”, Science Advances, 2, 4, 2016
D.E. Horton, Johnson, N.C., Singh, D., Swain, D.L., Rajaratnam, B., and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “Contribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to extreme temperature trends”, Nature, 522, 465-469, 2015
Compound events
*Gurazada, M., Abatzoglou, J., and D. Singh, “ENSO’s Influence on Co-occurring Hot-Dry and Hot-Wet Extremes across Global Croplands”, accepted, 2026
Cook, B. I., E. R. Cook, K. J. Anchukaitis, and D. Singh, “Characterizing the 2010 Russian heatwave-Pakistan flood concurrent extreme over the last millennium using the Great Eurasian Drought Atlas.” J. Climate, 37, 4389–4401, 2024
†J. Singh, M. Ashfaq, C.B. Skinner, W.B. Anderson, V. Mishra, and D. Singh, “Enhanced risk of concurrent regional droughts with increased ENSO variability and warming”, Nature Climate Change, 12, 163–170, 2022
†J. Singh, M. Ashfaq, C.B. Skinner, W.B. Anderson, and D. Singh, “Amplified Risk of Spatially Compounding Droughts during Co-occurrences of El Nino and other Modes of Natural Ocean Variability”, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 4,7, 2021
V. Mishra, K. Thirumalai, D. Singh, and S. Aadhar, “Future exacerbation of hot and dry summer monsoon extremes in India”, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 3, 10, 2020
D. Singh, R. Seager, B.I. Cook, M. Cane, M. Ting, E. Cook, and M. Davis, “Climate and the Great Global Famine of 1876-78″, Journal of Climate, 31, 9445-9467, 2018
D. Singh, Swain, D.L., Mankin, J.S., Horton, D.E., Thomas, L., Rajaratnam, B. and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “Recent amplification of the North American winter temperature dipole”, JGR-Atmospheres, 121, 2016
Extreme event attribution
D. Kalashnikov, Singh. D, Ting, M., Cook, B.I, “Contribution of Atmospheric Ridging, Low Soil Moisture, and Long-Term Warming to the Record-Breaking June 2023 Mexico-Texas Heatwave”, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL114987, 2025
D. L. Swain, D. Singh, D. Touma, and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “Attributing extreme events to climate change: a new frontier in a warming world”, One Earth, 2,6, 2020
N. S. Diffenbaugh, Singh, D., and Mankin, J.S., “Probability of unprecedented climate events: comparing historical changes with the UN aspirational targets and NDC commitments”, Science Advances, 4, 2, 2018
N.S. Diffenbaugh, D. Singh, J. S. Mankin, Horton, D., Swain, D., Touma, D., Charland, A., Liu, Y., Haugen, M., Tsiang, M., and B. Rajaratnam, “Quantifying the influence of observed global warming on the probability of historically unprecedented extreme climate events”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 19, 2017
D. Singh, Horton, D.E., Tsiang, M., Haugen, M., Ashfaq, M., Mei, R., Rastogi, D., Johnson,N., Charland, C., Rajaratnam, B., and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “Severe Precipitation in Northern India in June 2013: Causes, Historical Context, and Changes in Probability”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95(9), 2014
D.L. Swain, Tsiang, M.,Haugen, M., Singh, D., Charland, A., Rajaratnam, B., and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “The Extraordinary California drought of 2013-2014: Character, Context and Role of Climate Change”,Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95(9), 2014
Climate impacts on agriculture
*S. Preston, Rajagopalan, K., Yourek, M., Kalcsits, L., and D. Singh, “Changing Climate Risks for High-Value Tree Fruit Production across the United States”, Environmental Research Letters, 19 124092, 2024
*M. Gurazada, McDermid, S., DeFries, R., Davis, K.F., Singh, J., and D. Singh, “El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions simultaneously reduce the production of multiple cereals across India”, Environ. Res. Lett. 19 104059, 2024
*C. Diaz, Ting, M., Horton, R., Singh, D., †Rogers, CDW, Coffel, E. Increased Extreme Humid Heat Hazard Faced by Agricultural Workers. Environmental Research Communications,5, 115013, 2023
R. DeFries, Liang S., ChhatreA., Davis, K.F., Ghosh S., Rao N., and Singh. D., “Climate Resilience of Dry Season Cereals in India”, Nature Scientific Reports 13, 9960, 2023.
M. Ting, Lesk, C., Liu, C., Li, C., Horton, R.M., Coffell, E., †Rogers, C.D.W, and D. Singh, “Contrasting impacts of dry versus humid heat on US corn and soybean yields”, Scientific Reports, 13, 710, 2023
K. Ebi, C.L. Anderson, J.J. Hess, S-H Kim, I. Lolazde, R.B. Neumann, D. Singh, L. Ziska, and R. Wood, “Nutritional quality of crops in a high CO2 world: an agenda for research and technology development”, Environmental Research Letters, 16, 064045, 2021
K.F. Davis, A. Chhatre, N.D. Rao, D. Singh, S.G. Jerath, A. Mridul, M Poblete-Cazenave, N. Pradhan, R. S. DeFries, “Beyond the Green Revolution: Balancing multiple objectives for sustainable cereal production”, PNAS, 116 (50), 2019
K.F. Davis, A. Chhatre, N.D. Rao, D. Singh, and R. DeFries,“Sensitivity of Grain Yields to Historical Climate Variability”, Environmental Research Letters, 14, 6, 2019
K.F. Davis, Chiarelli, D.D., Chhatre, A., Richter, B., Singh, D., and R. DeFries, “Alternative cereals can improve water use and nutrient supply in India”, Science Advances, 4, 7, 2018
R. DeFries, Mondal, P., Singh, D., Agrawal, I., Fanzo, J., Remans, R., and Wood, S. ,“Synergies and Trade-offs for Sustainable Agriculture: Nutritional Yields and Climate-Resilience for Cereal Crops in Central India, Global Food Security, 2016
Climate impacts on migration and health
Eskew, E.A, Clancey, E., Singh, D., Situma, S., Nyakarahuka, L., Njenga, M.K, Nuismer SL., Projecting climate change impacts on inter-epidemic risk of Rift Valley fever across East Africa, Proc Biol Sci 1 January 2026; 293 (2063): 20252193, 2026
Karani, A., Ngere, I., Ombok, C., Singh, D., Jaoko, W., Njenga, M.K., Palmer G.H., Low Prevalence of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection in Camel-Exposed Patients Presenting with Respiratory Symptoms in Northern Kenya. Am J Trop Med Hyg. Jun 17;113(3):537-542, 2025
Situma S., Nyakarahuka L., Omondi E., Mureithi M., Mweu M., Muturi M., Mwatondo A., Dawa J., Konongoi L., Khamadi S., Clancey E., Lofgren E., Osoro E., Ngere I., Breiman R.F, Bakamutumaho B., Muruta A., Gachohi J., Oyola S.O., Njenga M.K., Singh D. “Widening geographic range of Rift Valley fever disease clusters associated with climate change in East Africa.”, BMJ Global Health, 9:e014737, 2024
*A. Ivanova, Singh, D., Rai, P., Richards, C., *Vasconcelos, H., M. Goldsby, “Climate Change and Migration: Literature Review”, 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 104059, 2024
P. Choksi, D. Singh, †J. Singh, P. Mondal, H. Nagendra, J. Urpelainen, and R. DeFries, “Sensitivity of Seasonal Migration to Climatic Variability in Central India”, Environmental Research Letters,16, 064074, 2021
Other miscellaneous
Redensek, V.J., McDermid, S., Singh, D. and Persad, G., Nonlinear response of the surface energy balance to changes in anthropogenic aerosols and irrigation over South Asia. Earth’s Future, 13, e2024EF005555, 2025
D. Singh, “Implications of a varying observational network for accurately estimating recent climate trends”, (Invited Commentary) Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 10, 5430-5435, 2019
J.S. Mankin, Viviroli, D., Singh, D., Hoekstra, A., and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “The potential for snow to supply human water demand in the present and future”, Environmental Research Letters, 10, 114016, 2015
D.E. Horton, Skinner, C.B., Singh, D., and N.S. Diffenbaugh, “Occurrence and persistence of future atmospheric stagnation events”, Nature Climate Change, 4: 698-703, 2014