Noah Diffenbaugh

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Noah Diffenbaugh

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473 Via Ortega
Stanford,  California  94305 

Biography

Dr. Noah Diffenbaugh is the Kara J Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University. He studies the climate system, including the processes by which climate change could impact agriculture, water resources, and human health. Dr. Diffenbaugh is currently Editor-in-Chief of the peer-review journal Geophysical Research Letters. He has served as a Lead Author for Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and has provided testimony and scientific expertise to the White House, the Governor of California, and U.S. Congressional offices. Dr. Diffenbaugh is a recipient of the James R. Holton Award from the American Geophysical Union, a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, and a Terman Fellowship from Stanford University. He has also been recognized as a Kavli Fellow by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and as a Google Science Communication Fellow.

publications

Journal Articles
January 2021

Contribution of historical precipitation change to US flood damages

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Journal Articles
March 2020

Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

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Journal Articles
March 2020

Verification of extreme event attribution: Using out-of-sample observations to assess changes in probabilities of unprecedented events

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