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Kate Marvel

(RSCH AST, CLIMATE AND RADIATION STD)

Kate Marvel's Contact Card & Information.
Email: kate.marvel@nasa.gov
Org Code: 611
Address:
NASA/GISS
Mail Code 611
New York, NY 10025
Employer:
NASA

Brief Bio


Kate Marvel is a research physicist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Research Interests


Machine Learning and Bayesian Inference


Forcings and feedbacks


Attribution Science

Earth Science: Analysis

Positions/Employment


Senior Scientist

Project Drawdown - Remote

January 2023 - January 2024


Research Scientist

Columbia University - New York City

September 2014 - December 2022


Postdoctoral Researcher

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA

November 2011 - August 2014


Science Fellow

Stanford University - Stanford, CA

January 2009 - August 2011

Education


PhD, Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

BA, Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley

Selected Publications


Refereed

2022. "Using machine learning to identify novel hydroclimate states.", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 380 (2238): [10.1098/rsta.2021.0287] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Projected changes in early summer ridging and drought over the Central Plains.", Environmental Research Letters, 17 (10): 104020 [10.1088/1748-9326/ac8e1a] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Responses of compound daytime and nighttime warm-dry and warm-humid events to individual anthropogenic forcings.", Environmental Research Letters, 17 (8): 084015 [10.1088/1748-9326/ac80ce] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Climate simulations: recognize the ‘hot model’ problem.", Nature, 605 (7908): 26-29 [10.1038/d41586-022-01192-2] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Uncertainties, Limits, and Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation for Soil Moisture Drought in Southwestern North America.", Earth's Future, 9 (9): [10.1029/2021ef002014] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Projected Changes to Hydroclimate Seasonality in the Continental United States.", Earth's Future, 9 (9): [10.1029/2021ef002019] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Fingerprints of external forcings on Sahel rainfall: aerosols, greenhouse gases, and model-observation discrepancies.", Environmental Research Letters, 15 (8): 084023 [10.1088/1748-9326/ab858e] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence.", Reviews of Geophysics, [10.1029/2019rg000678] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity.", Nature Climate Change, 10 (8): 726-731 [10.1038/s41558-020-0821-1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios.", Earth's Future, 8 (6): [10.1029/2019ef001461] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Observational constraints on the effective climate sensitivity from the historical period.", Environmental Research Letters, 15 (3): 034043 [10.1088/1748-9326/ab738f] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Internal Variability and Disequilibrium Confound Estimates of Climate Sensitivity From Observations.", Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (3): 1595-1601 [10.1002/2017gl076468] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Implications for climate sensitivity from the response to individual forcings.", Nature Climate Change, 6 (4): 386–389 [10.1038/nclimate2888] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Quantifying the Sources of Inter-Model Spread in Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity.", J. Climate, 29 (2): 513-524 [10.1175/jcli-d-15-0352.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Do responses to different anthropogenic forcings add linearly in climate models?.", Environ. Res. Lett., 10 (10): 104010 [doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/10/104010] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Sensitivity to factors underlying the hiatus.", US CLIVAR Variations, 13 (3): 25-29 [Full Text] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "External influences on modeled and observed cloud trends.", J. Climate, 28 (12): 4820-4840 [doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00734.1] [Journal Article/Letter]