Publications 2005-2010

• General Public
  • Takle, E. S., 2005: Nighttime rainfall makes Iowa a special place. Des Moines Register, 19 August 2005. [Available online at http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050819/OPINION01/508190350/1035] Please note that the Register online version omits a key graphic given here.

• Refereed National and International Journals and Books

  • Takle, E. S., C. Anderson, M. Jha, and P. W. Gassman, 2006:  Upper Mississippi River Basin Modeling Systems Part 4:  Climate change impacts on flow and water quality.  Singh, V. P., and Y. J. Xu, (eds.), 2006:  Coastal Hydrology and Processes, Water Resources Publications LLC. Highlands Ranch, CO. 509 pp.

  • Wuebbles, D. J., and E. S. Takle, 2005: Geoscience heads and chairs tackle strategies for thriving departments. EOS 80, 187, 190 (10 May).
  • Takle, E. S., and D. J. Wuebbles, 2005: Promoting atmospheric, Earth, and space sciences in higher education. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 86, 989-991.
  • Takle, E. S., and Z. Pan, 2005: Climate Change and Crop Production: Challenges to Modeling Future Scenarios. In Lal, R., N. Uphoff, B. A. Stewart, and D. O. Hansen, 2005, ed., Climate Change and Global Food Security. Taylor & Francis. 383-403.

  • Takle, E. S., J. Roads, B. Rockel, W. J. Gutowski, Jr.. R. W. Arritt, I. Meinke, C. G. Jones, and A. Zadra, 2007:  Transferability intercomparison:  An opportunity for new insight on the global water cycle and energy budget.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 375-384.

  • Greenfield, T. M., and E. S. Takle, 2006:  Bridge frost prediction by heat and mass transfer methods.  J. Appl. Meteor., 45, 517-525. doi: 10.1175/JAM2356.1

  • Takle, E.S., M. Jha, and C.J. Anderson, 2005: Hydrological cycle in the Upper Mississippi River Basin: 20th century simulations by multiple GCMs. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L18407 10.1029/2005GL023630 (28 September).

  • Gutowski, W. J., Jr., K. A. Kozak, R. W. Arritt, J. H. Christensen, J. C. Patton, and E. S. Takle, 2007: A possible constraint on regional precipitation intensity changes under global warming.  J. Hydromet., 8, 1382-1412.

  • Zhou, X. H., J. R. Brandle, E. S. Takle, and C. W. Mize, 2007:  Relationship of three-dimensional structure to shelterbelt function:  A theoretical hypothesis. In Batish, D. R., R. K. Kohi, S. Jose, and H. P. Singh, eds., 2007: Ecological Basis of Agroforestry.  CRC Press. Pp.273-286.
  • Mize, C, J. Colletti, W. Batchelor, J.S. Kim, E.S. Takle, and J.R. Brandle, 2007.  Modeling a field shelterbelt system with the shelterbelt agroforestry modeling system. In Batish, D. R., R. K. Kohi, S. Jose, and H. P. Singh, eds., 2007: Ecological Basis of Agroforestry.  CRC Press.  Pp 287-299.

• Published Conference Presentations

  • Takle, E. S., M. Jha, C. J. Anderson, and P. W. Gassman, 2006: Climate change impacts on the hydrology of the Upper Mississippi River Basin as determined by an ensemble of GCMs. 20th Conference on Hydrology, Amer. Meteor. Soc. Atlanta GA.
  • Takle, E. S., J. Roads, B. Rockel, W. J. Gutowski, Jr., R. W. Arritt, I. Meinke, C. G. Jones, and A. Zadra, 2006: Do regional climate models perform better on their home domains? A transferability intercomparison. EGU Annual Meeting.
  • Takle, E. S., J. Roads, B. Rockel, W. J. Gutowski, Jr., R. W. Arritt, I. Meinke, C. G. Jones, and A. Zadra, 2006: Diurnal cycle of surface-flux probability distributions in regional climate models. EGU Annual Meeting.
  • Arritt, R. W., C. A. Clark, M. E. Westgate, B. Viner, E. S. Takle, and A. S. Goggi, 2005: Evaluation of pollen confinement techniques. North Central Weed Science Society 60th Annual Meeting. Kansas City, MO
  • Takle, E.S., B. Rockel, W.J. Gutowski, Jr., J. Roads, R.W. Arritt, I. Meinke, and C. Jones, 2005: Transferability Working Group (TWG). GEWEX Hydrometeorology Panel Meeting (GHP-11) Melbourne, AU. 26-29 September.
  • Takle, E., B. Rockel, W.J. Gutowski, J. Roads, J. R.W. Arritt, and I. Meinke, 2005: Transferability: A Global Approach to Regional Climate Model Simulations. Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), Beijing, China, 2-11 August 2005.
  • Takle, E. S., and D. J. Wuebbles, 2005: Promoting atmospheric, Earth, and space sciences in higher education. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86, 989-991.
  • Rockel, B., I. Meinke, J. Roads, W. J. Gutowski, Jr., R. W. Arritt, E. S. Takle, and C. Jones, 2005: The Inter-CSE Transferability Study. Submitted to CEOP Newsletter. (July 2005).
  • Takle, E.S., B. Rockel, W.J. Gutowski, Jr., J. Roads, I. Meinke, R.W. Arritt, and C. Jones, 2005: Transferability: Advancing the science of hydrometeorology. Indo-US Workshop on Applications of High-Performance Computing to Weather and Climate (invited presentation). Boulder CO, July 2005.
  • Rockel, B., J. Roads, I. Meinke, W.J. Gutowski, R.W. Arritt, and E.S. Takle, 2005: ICTS (Inter-CSE Transferability Study) of regional climate models within CEOP. Fifth Conference, Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX), Costa Mesa, CA, June 2005.
  • Wuebbles, D.J., and E.S. Takle, 2005: Geoscience heads and chairs tackle strategies for thriving departments. EOS, 80, 187, 190 (10 May).
  • Gutowski, W.J., Jr., R. Arritt, S. Biner, G. Boer, D. Caya, P. Duffy, M. Giguere, F. Giorgi, I. Held, R. Jones, R. Laprise, R. Leung, L. Mearns, A. Nunes, J. Pal, Y. Qian, J. Roads, L. Sloan, M. Snyder, R. Stouffer, E. Takle, and W. Washington, 2005: Initial results from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program. 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change. Amer. Meteor. Soc., San Diego.
  • Mearns, L.O., R.W. Arritt, G. Boer, D. Caya, P. Duffy, F. Giorgi, W.J. Gutowski, I.M. Held, R. Jones, R. Laprise, L.R. Leung, J. Pal, J. Roads, L. Sloan, R. Stouffer, E.S. Takle, and W. Washington, 2005: NARCCAP, North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program, A Multiple AOGCM and RCM Climate Scenario Project over North America. 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change. Amer. Meteor. Soc., San Diego.
  • Arritt, R.W. , C.J. Anderson, W.J. Gutowski, E.S. Takle, D. Caya, C.G. Jones, J.J. Katzfey, J.W. Larson, R. Laprise, J.L. McGregor, J. Roads, and J. Taylor, 2005: Influences on predictability in multi-year regional climate simulations for the continental United States. 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change. Amer. Meteor. Soc., San Diego.
  • Rockel, B., J. Roads, I. Meinke, W.J. Gutowski, R. Arritt, and E.S. Takle, 2005: ICTS (Inter-CSE Transferability Study): an application of CEOP data. 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change. Amer. Meteor. Soc., San Diego.
  • Takle, E.S., M. Jha, Z. Pan, and R. Gu, 2005: Climate change and uncertainty of stream flow scenarios of the Upper Mississippi River Basin by use of a regional climate model. 19th Conference on Hydrology. Amer. Meteor. Soc., San Diego.
  • Mearns, L.O., R. Arritt, G. Boer, D. Caya, P. Duffy, F. Giorgi, W. Gutowski, I. Held, R. Jones, R. Laprise, R. Lueng, J. Pal, J. Roads, L. Sloan, R. Stouffer, E. Takle, and W. Washington, 2005: North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program. 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change. Amer. Meteor. Soc., San Diego.
  • Pan, Z., E.S. Takle, L. Xue, and M. Segal, 2005: Improvements on CO₂ flux estimation over the central U.S. using explicit crop phenology. 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change. Amer. Meteor. Soc., San Diego.
  • Takle, E.S., M. Jha, P.W. Gassman, S. Secchi, and C. Kling, 2005: Climate change impacts on the hydrology and water quality of the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Third International SWAT Conference. 11-15 July, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Takle, E.S., M. Jha, and C.J. Anderson, 2005: Changes is Stream Flow due to Increases in Greenhouse Gas Forcing. International Workshop on IPCC Model Analysis. (March 2005, Honolulu).
  • Takle, E.S., B. Rockel, W.J. Gutowski, Jr., J. Roads, R.W. Arritt, and I. Meinke, 2005: Transferability: Advancing the science of Hydrometeorology. Geophys Res Abstr. 7, 08967. EGU Annual Meeting (invited)
  • Rockel, B., J. Roads, I. Meinke, I., W.J. Gutowski Jr., R.W. Arritt, and E.S. Takle, 2005: ICTS (Inter-CSE Transferability Study) of regional climate models within CEOP/GEWEX. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 7, 02373.
  • Takle, E.S., B. Rockel, W.J. Gutowski, Jr., J. Roads, I. Meinke, and R.W. Arritt, 2005: Transferability experiments for advancing the GEWEX agenda. 16th Conference on Hydrology. Amer. Meteor. Soc. San Diego, CA
  • Gutowski, W.J., R.W. Arritt, E.S. Takle, Z. Pan, C. Anderson, K. Kozak, F. Otieno, 2005:  Projected Changes in Precipitation Intensity in a Greenhouse Scenario Climate. Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), Beijing, China, 2-11 August 2005.

   

  • Arritt, R.W., Z. Pan, E.S. Takle, and W.J. Gutowski, 2005:  Influence of land-atmosphere coupling on development and persistence of a projected climate anomaly over the central U.S. Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), Beijing, China, 2-11 August 2005.

   

  • Gutowski, W.J., C. Anderson, R. W. Arritt, Z. Pan, and E. S. Takle, 2005:  Status of regional climate modeling.  Workshop on Research Needs and Directions of Regional Climate Modeling Using WRF and CCSM, NCAR CGD and MMM Divisions, Boulder, CO, 22-23 March 2005. (invited)

     

  • Arritt, R.W., Z. Pan, E.S. Takle, and W.J. Gutowski, 2005:  The role of atmosphere-land coupling in producing a climate anomaly over the central U.S. Fifth Conference, Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX), Costa Mesa, CA, June 2005.

     

  • Gutowski, W.J., R.W. Arritt, E.S. Takle, Z. Pan, C. Anderson, K. Kozak, F. Otieno, 2005: Challenges for Predicting Seasonal Precipitation on Annual and Longer Time Scales.  Fifth Conference, Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX), Costa Mesa, CA, June 2005.

     

  • Mearns, L.O., R. Arritt, G. Boer, D. Caya, P. Duffy, F. Giorgi, W. J. Gutowski, I. M. Held, R. Jones, R. Laprise, L. R. Leung, J. Pal, J. Roads, L. Sloan, R. Stouffer, G. Takle, and W. Washington, 2005:  NARCCAP, North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program, A Multiple AOGCM and RCM Climate Scenario Project over North America.  Fifth Conference, Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX), Costa Mesa, CA, June 2005.

     

  • Gutowski, W.J., L.O. Mearns, R. Arritt, G. Boer, D. Caya, P. Duffy, F. Giorgi, I. M. Held, R. Jones, R. Laprise, L. R. Leung, J. Pal, J. Roads, L. Sloan, R. Stouffer, G. Takle, and W. Washington, 2005:  The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP):  A Multiple AOGCM and RCM Climate Scenario Project over North America. Climate Science in Support of Decision Making, U.S. Climate Change Science Program workshop, Arlington, VA, 14-16 November 2005.

     

  • Gutowski, W.J., C. Anderson, R. W. Arritt, Z. Pan, and E. S. Takle, 2006:  Status of regional climate modeling Some recommendations for RegCNET. First ICTP West African Workshop on Regional Climate and Impacts, Accra, Ghana, 16-20 January 2006.  (invited)

     

  • Gutowski, W.J., C. Anderson, R. W. Arritt, Z. Pan, and E. S. Takle, 2005:  Status of regional climate modeling Some recommendations for RegCNET. Third ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models, Trieste, Italy, 29 May - 9 June 2006. (invited)

     

  • Takle, E. S., and Z. Pan, 2006:  Climate change impacts on agriculture.  Third ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models.  International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy 29 May – 9 June 2006.  [Invited].

     

  • Takle, E. S., B. Rockel, W. J. Gutowski, Jr., J. Roads, R. W. Arritt, I. Meinke, and C. Jones, 2006:  Transferability Working Group (TWG) of the GEWEX Hydrometeorology Panel.  Third ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models.  International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy 29 May – 9 June 2006.  [Invited].

     

  • Takle, E. S., 2006: Global education. Third ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models.  International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy 29 May – 9 June 2006.  [Invited].

     

  • Gutowski, W. J., R.W. Arritt, K. Kozak, J. Patton, and E. S. Takle, 2006:  A Possible Constraint on Precipitation Intensity Changes under Greenhouse Warming.  Earth System Science Partnership Conferene: Global Environmental Change - Regional Challenges, Beijing, China, 9 -12 November 2006.

     

  • R. Arritt, L O. Mearns, G. Boer, D. Caya, P. Duffy, F. Giorgi, W. J. Gutowski, I. M. Held, R. Jones, R. Laprise,, R.L. Leung, J. Pal, J. Roads, L. Sloan, R. Stouffer, G. Takle, and W. Washington, 2006: North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP): Producing Regional Climate Change Projections for Impacts Studies.  Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union,, San Francisco, CA.

     

  • Gutowski, W. J., S. S. Willis, J. C. Patton, B. R. Schwedler, R. W. Arritt, and E. S. Takle, 2007: Simulating the synoptic climatology of extreme precipitation events.  Bridging Studies of Weather and Climate” - Presidential Forum on Climate Variability and Change Manifested by Changes in Weather, at Annual Meeting, American Meteorological Society, San Antonio, TX, January 2007. [invited]

     

  • Takle, E. S., T.-C. Chen, and X. Wu, 2006:  The role of coastal forests and trees for protecting against wind and salt spray.  Workshop on Coastal Protection in the Aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami:  What Role for Forests and Trees?  United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (Rome).  Khao Lak Thailand 28-31 August 2006.  [Invited] [http://www.fao.org/forestry/site/coastalprotection/en/]

     

  • Takle, E. S., 2006: Designing shelterbelts for protection against wind and salt spray. National Central University, Taipei, Taiwan.2 September August 2006.  [Invited].

     

  • Takle, E. S., for the NARCCAP Team, 2007:  The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program.  Midwestern Climate Workshop, Indiana University, 15-17 October.

     

  • Takle, E. S., S. C. Pryor, R. Barthelmie, T. K. Andersen, J. Correia,, D. Flory, R. W. Arritt, and W. J. Gutowski, Jr., 2007:  Trends in US surface winds over the last quarter of the 20C:  Observations and model results. Regional Climate I: Modeling, Detection, and Attribution of Climate Change Posters.  Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union. San Francisco.

     

  • Takle, E. S., L. O. Mearns, and H. Campbell, 2008: Communicating Information for Decision-makers: Climate Change at the Regional Scale.  Breakout Session, 8th National Conference on Science Policy and the Environment. National Council for Science and the Environment.  16-18 January, Washington, DC.

Last Update: 01/14/2008