| Warming and earlier spring increase western US forest wildfire activity AL Westerling, HG Hidalgo, DR Cayan, TW Swetnam science 313 (5789), 940-943, 2006 | 6524 | 2006 |
| Changes toward earlier streamflow timing across western North America IT Stewart, DR Cayan, MD Dettinger Journal of climate 18 (8), 1136-1155, 2005 | 1764 | 2005 |
| Human-induced changes in the hydrology of the western United States TP Barnett, DW Pierce, HG Hidalgo, C Bonfils, BD Santer, T Das, G Bala, ... science 319 (5866), 1080-1083, 2008 | 1571 | 2008 |
| Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California K Hayhoe, D Cayan, CB Field, PC Frumhoff, EP Maurer, NL Miller, ... Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 101 (34), 12422-12427, 2004 | 1321 | 2004 |
| Climate change impacts on US coastal and marine ecosystems D Scavia, JC Field, DF Boesch, RW Buddemeier, V Burkett, DR Cayan, ... Estuaries 25, 149-164, 2002 | 1225 | 2002 |
| Changes in the onset of spring in the western United States DR Cayan, SA Kammerdiener, MD Dettinger, JM Caprio, DH Peterson Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 82 (3), 399-416, 2001 | 1223 | 2001 |
| Trends in snowfall versus rainfall in the western United States N Knowles, MD Dettinger, DR Cayan Journal of Climate 19 (18), 4545-4559, 2006 | 1201 | 2006 |
| Changes in snowmelt runoff timing in western North America under abusiness as usual'climate change scenario IT Stewart, DR Cayan, MD Dettinger Climatic Change 62 (1), 217-232, 2004 | 1041 | 2004 |
| Atmospheric rivers, floods and the water resources of California MD Dettinger, FM Ralph, T Das, PJ Neiman, DR Cayan Water 3 (2), 445-478, 2011 | 973 | 2011 |
| Climate-ocean variability and ecosystem response in the Northeast Pacific JA McGowan, DR Cayan, LRM Dorman Science 281 (5374), 210-217, 1998 | 919 | 1998 |
| Climate change scenarios for the California region DR Cayan, EP Maurer, MD Dettinger, M Tyree, K Hayhoe Climatic change 87, 21-42, 2008 | 872 | 2008 |
| Latent and sensible heat flux anomalies over the northern oceans: Driving the sea surface temperature DR Cayan Journal of Physical Oceanography 22 (8), 859-881, 1992 | 869 | 1992 |
| ENSO and hydrologic extremes in the western United States DR Cayan, KT Redmond, LG Riddle Journal of climate 12 (9), 2881-2893, 1999 | 842 | 1999 |
| Flooding on California's Russian River: Role of atmospheric rivers FM Ralph, PJ Neiman, GA Wick, SI Gutman, MD Dettinger, DR Cayan, ... Geophysical Research Letters 33 (13), 2006 | 836 | 2006 |
| Future dryness in the southwest US and the hydrology of the early 21st century drought DR Cayan, T Das, DW Pierce, TP Barnett, M Tyree, A Gershunov Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (50), 21271-21276, 2010 | 795 | 2010 |
| North Pacific decadal climate variability since 1661 F Biondi, A Gershunov, DR Cayan Journal of climate 14 (1), 5-10, 2001 | 747 | 2001 |
| The 1976-77 climate shift of the Pacific Ocean AJ Miller, DR Cayan, TP Barnett, NE Graham, JM Oberhuber Oceanography 7 (1), 21-26, 1994 | 715 | 1994 |
| Latent and sensible heat flux anomalies over the northern oceans: The connection to monthly atmospheric circulation DR Cayan Journal of climate 5 (4), 354-369, 1992 | 669 | 1992 |
| Large-scale atmospheric forcing of recent trends toward early snowmelt runoff in California MD Dettinger, DR Cayan Journal of Climate 8 (3), 606-623, 1995 | 647 | 1995 |
| Observed climate variability and change N Nicholls, GV Gruza, J Jouzel, TR Karl, LA Ogallo, DE Parker, JR Christy, ... Climate change 1995-The science of climate change (IPCC), 137-192, 1996 | 637 | 1996 |
