| Global warming and 21st century drying BI Cook, JE Smerdon, R Seager, S Coats Climate dynamics 43, 2607-2627, 2014 | 1138 | 2014 |
| Projected drought risk in 1.5 C and 2 C warmer climates F Lehner, S Coats, TF Stocker, AG Pendergrass, BM Sanderson, ... Geophysical Research Letters 44 (14), 7419-7428, 2017 | 301 | 2017 |
| North American megadroughts in the Common Era: Reconstructions and simulations BI Cook, ER Cook, JE Smerdon, R Seager, AP Williams, S Coats, ... Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 7 (3), 411-432, 2016 | 165 | 2016 |
| Are simulated and observed twentieth century tropical Pacific sea surface temperature trends significant relative to internal variability? S Coats, KB Karnauskas Geophysical Research Letters 44 (19), 9928-9937, 2017 | 145 | 2017 |
| Human-driven greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions cause distinct regional impacts on extreme fire weather D Touma, S Stevenson, F Lehner, S Coats Nature communications 12 (1), 212, 2021 | 111 | 2021 |
| Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era PAGES Hydro2k Consortium Climate of the Past 13 (12), 1851-1900, 2017 | 110 | 2017 |
| Twenty-first century hydroclimate: A continually changing baseline, with more frequent extremes S Stevenson, S Coats, D Touma, J Cole, F Lehner, J Fasullo, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (12), e2108124119, 2022 | 104 | 2022 |
| Are glacials dry? Consequences for paleoclimatology and for greenhouse warming J Scheff, R Seager, H Liu, S Coats Journal of Climate 30 (17), 6593-6609, 2017 | 102 | 2017 |
| Are simulated megadroughts in the North American Southwest forced? S Coats, JE Smerdon, BI Cook, R Seager Journal of Climate 28 (1), 124-142, 2015 | 94 | 2015 |
| Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene BI Cook, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, AP Williams, KJ Anchukaitis, JS Mankin, ... Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3 (11), 741-757, 2022 | 89 | 2022 |
| Stationarity of the tropical pacific teleconnection to North America in CMIP5/PMIP3 model simulations S Coats, JE Smerdon, BI Cook, R Seager Geophysical Research Letters 40 (18), 4927-4932, 2013 | 87 | 2013 |
| Internal ocean‐atmosphere variability drives megadroughts in Western North America S Coats, JE Smerdon, BI Cook, R Seager, ER Cook, KJ Anchukaitis Geophysical research letters 43 (18), 9886-9894, 2016 | 78 | 2016 |
| The value of initial condition large ensembles to robust adaptation decision‐making JS Mankin, F Lehner, S Coats, KA McKinnon Earth's Future 8 (10), e2012EF001610, 2020 | 75 | 2020 |
| Stormquakes W Fan, JJ McGuire, CD de Groot‐Hedlin, MAH Hedlin, S Coats, ... Geophysical Research Letters 46 (22), 12909-12918, 2019 | 68 | 2019 |
| Exacerbation of the 2013–2016 pan‐Caribbean drought by anthropogenic warming DA Herrera, TR Ault, JT Fasullo, SJ Coats, CM Carrillo, BI Cook, ... Geophysical research letters 45 (19), 10,619-10,626, 2018 | 66 | 2018 |
| Megadroughts in southwestern North America in ECHO-G millennial simulations and their comparison to proxy drought reconstructions S Coats, JE Smerdon, R Seager, BI Cook, JF González-Rouco Journal of climate 26 (19), 7635-7649, 2013 | 66 | 2013 |
| A robust null hypothesis for the potential causes of megadrought in western North America TR Ault, SS George, JE Smerdon, S Coats, JS Mankin, CM Carrillo, ... Journal of Climate 31 (1), 3-24, 2018 | 64 | 2018 |
| Precipitation, temperature, and teleconnection signals across the combined North American, monsoon Asia, and old world drought atlases SH Baek, JE Smerdon, S Coats, AP Williams, BI Cook, ER Cook, ... Journal of climate 30 (18), 7141-7155, 2017 | 64 | 2017 |
| North American pancontinental droughts in model simulations of the last millennium S Coats, BI Cook, JE Smerdon, R Seager Journal of Climate 28 (5), 2025-2043, 2015 | 60 | 2015 |
| Climate variability, volcanic forcing, and last millennium hydroclimate extremes S Stevenson, JT Overpeck, J Fasullo, S Coats, L Parsons, B Otto-Bliesner, ... Journal of Climate 31 (11), 4309-4327, 2018 | 58 | 2018 |
