Publications

Stevenson, S., Cobb, K., Merrifield, M., Powell, B., Sanchez, S., O'Connor, G., Atwood, A. "Contrasting central equatorial Pacific oxygen isotopic signatures of the 2014/15 and 2015/16 El Nino events." Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters. 

Capotondi, A., McGregor, S., McPhaden, M., Cravatte, S., Holbrook, N., Imada, Y., Sanchez, S., et al. "Mechanisms of Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability." Submitted to Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. 

Walter, Rachel M., Hussein R. Sayani, Thomas Felis, Kim M. Cobb, Nerilie J. Abram, Ariella K. Arzey, Alyssa R. Atwood et al. "The CoralHydro2k Database: a global, actively curated compilation of coral δ18O and Sr/Ca proxy records of tropical ocean hydrology and temperature for the Common Era." Earth System Science Data Discussions 2022 (2022): 1-56.

Maher, Nicola, Robert C. Jnglin Wills, Pedro DiNezio, Jeremy Klavans, Sebastian Milinski, Sara C. Sanchez, Samantha Stevenson, Malte F. Stuecker, and Xian Wu. "The future of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation: Using large ensembles to illuminate time-varying responses and inter-model differences." Earth System Dynamics Discussions 2022 (2022): 1-28.

DeLong, K. L., Alyssa Atwood, Andrea Moore, and Sara Sanchez. "Clues from the sea paint a picture of Earth's water cycle." Eos 103 (2022).

Sanchez, Sara C., and Kristopher B. Karnauskas. "Diversity in the persistence of El Niño events over the last millennium." Geophysical Research Letters 48, no. 18 (2021): e2021GL093698.

Gerald A. Meehl, Jadwiga H. Richter, Haiyan Teng, Antonietta Capotondi, Kim Cobb, Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Markus G. Donat, Matthew H. England, John C. Fyfe, Weiqing Han, Hyemi Kim, Ben P. Kirtman, Yochanan Kushnir, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Michael E. Mann, William J. Merryfield, Veronica Nieves, Kathy Pegion, Sara Sanchez, Adam Scaife, Doug Smith, Aneesh C. Subramanian, Lantao Sun, Diane Thompson, Caroline Ummenhofer, Shang-Ping Xie. "Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales." Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2, no. 5 (2021): 340-357. 

Parsons, Luke A., Daniel E. Amrhein, Sara C. Sanchez, Robert Tardif, M. Kathleen Brennan, and Gregory J. Hakim. "Do multi‐model ensembles improve reconstruction skill in paleoclimate data assimilation?." Earth and Space Science 8, no. 4 (2021):e2020EA001467.

S.C. Sanchez, G.J. Hakim, C.P. Saenger.  Climate model teleconnection patterns govern the tropical Pacific response to early 19th century volcanism in coral-based data assimilation reconstructions. Journal of Climate 34, no. 5 (2021): 1863-1880.

Sanchez, S. C., N. Westphal, G. H. Haug, H. Cheng, R. L. Edwards, T. Schneider, K. M. Cobb, and C. D. Charles. "A Continuous Record of Central Tropical Pacific Climate Since the Midnineteenth Century Reconstructed From Fanning and Palmyra Island Corals: A Case Study in Coral Data Reanalysis." Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35, no. 8 (2020): e2020PA003848.

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Sanchez, Sara C., Dillon J. Amaya, Arthur J. Miller, Shang-Ping Xie, and Christopher D. Charles. The Pacific Meridional Mode over the last millennium. Climate Dynamics (2019):1-14.

Sanchez, Sara C. Pacific climate variability: insights from coral records, Earth System Models, and novel geochemical tracers. PhD diss., UC San Diego, 2018.

Rafter, P. A., Sanchez, S. C., Ferguson, J., Carriquiry, J. D., Druffel, E. R., Villaescusa, J. A., & Southon, J. R. (2017). Eastern tropical North Pacific coral radiocarbon reveals North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) variability. Quaternary Science Reviews, 160, 108-115.

Sanchez, S. C., Charles, C. D., Carriquiry, J. D., & Villaescusa, J. A. (2016). Two centuries of coherent decadal climate variability across the Pacific North American region. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(17), 9208-9216.