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Education

PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Interests

Climate Change, Biosphere-Atmosphere Feedbacks, Paleoclimatology, Earth System Modeling

Teaching Interests

Global Environmental Change, Ecological Climatology and Paleoclimatology

EAS 591A Writing Successful Science Proposal

Awards and Honors

James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award, Atmospheric Sciences Section, AGU, 2006

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, 2004 -

Postgraduate Research Earth Scientist, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003 - 2004

Sub-Daily Scale Extreme Precipitation in Future Climate-Change Scenarios: A Pilot Study, National Science Foundation, Award #0402054, February 1, 2006 to January 31, 2008, $275,075. (Trapp is P.I.)

Collaborative Research: Water Balance of western North America: Dynamics of the Miocene summer monsoon, National Science Foundation, Award #0450221, February 15, 2005 to January 31, 2008, $230,060. Co-PI: Huber.

Collaborative Research: Surface-Atmosphere Feedbacks and Holocene Climate Variations in Eastern North America: Linkages, Impacts, and Governing Mechanisms, National Science Foundation, Award #0315677. Subcontract with University of California, Santa Cruz, July 1, 2004 to September 30, 2007, $179,750.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Holocene Seasonality and Inter-annual variability along the California Current System , National Science Foundation, Award # 0402054, May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2007, P.I.: Diffenbaugh, $148,879.

Selected Publications

• Diffenbaugh, Noah S., M. Ashfaq, B. Shuman, J.W. Williams and P.J. Bartlein, Summer aridity in the United States: Response to mid-Holocene changes in insolation and sea surface temperature, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L22712, doi:10.1029/2006GL028012, 2006.

• White, M.A., N.S. Diffenbaugh, G.V. Jones, J.S. Pal and F. Giorgi, Extreme heat reduces and shifts United States premium wine production in the 21st century, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(30), 11217-11222, 2006.

• Diffenbaugh, N.S., J.L. Bell and L.C. Sloan, Simulated changes in extreme temperature and precipitation events at 6 ka, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 236(1-2), 151-168, 2006.

• Diffenbaugh, N.S., J.S. Pal, R.J. Trapp and F. Giorgi, Fine-scale processes regulate the response of extreme events to global climate change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(44), 15774-15778, 2005.

• Diffenbaugh, N.S., Response of large-scale eastern boundary current forcing in the 21st century, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L19718, doi:10.1029/2005GL023905, 2005.

• Diffenbaugh, Noah S., Sensitivity of extreme climate events to CO2-induced biophysical atmosphere-vegetation feedbacks in the western United States, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L07702, doi:10.1029/2004GL022184, 2005.

• Diffenbaugh, Noah S., Atmosphere-land cover feedbacks alter the response of surface temperature to CO2 forcing in the western United States, Climate Dynamics, 24(2-3), 237-251, 2005. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-004-0503-0.

• Diffenbaugh, Noah S. and L.C. Sloan, Mid-Holocene orbital forcing of regional-scale climate: a case study of western North America using a high-resolution RCM, Journal of Climate, 17(15), 2927-2937, 2004.

• Koch, Paul L., N.S. Diffenbaugh and K.A. Hoppe, The effect of Late Quaternary climate and p CO2 change on C4 plant abundance in the south-central United States, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 207(3-4), 331-357, 2004.

• Diffenbaugh, Noah S. , M.A. Snyder and L.C. Sloan, Could CO2-induced land cover feedbacks alter near-shore upwelling regimes?, PNAS 2004 101: 27-32; Published online before print December 22, 2003, 10.1073/pnas.0305746101

• Snyder, Mark A., Lisa C. Sloan, Noah S. Diffenbaugh , and Jason L. Bell, Future climate change and upwelling in the California Current, Geophysical Research Letters , 30 (15), 1823, 10.1029/2003GL017647, 2003.

• Noah S. Diffenbaugh , Lisa C. Sloan and Mark A. Snyder, Orbital suppression of wind driven upwelling in the California Current at 6ka, P aleoceanography, 18 (2), 1051, 10.1029/2002PA000865, 2003.

• Noah S. Diffenbaugh , Lisa C. Sloan, Mark A. Snyder, Jason L. Bell, Jed O. Kaplan, Sarah L. Shafer and Patrick J. Bartlein, Vegetation sensitivity to global anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions in a topographically complex region, Global Biogeochemical Cycles , 17 (2), 1067, 10.1029/200GB001974, 2003.

• Noah S. Diffenbaugh and Lisa C. Sloan, Global climate sensitivity to land surface change: The Mid Holocene revisited, Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (10), 1476, 10.1029/2002GL014880, 2002.