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2017 Daly, C., Slater, M., Roberti, J.A., Laseter, S., and L. Swift. 2017. High-resolution precipitation mapping in a mountainous watershed: Ground truth for evaluating uncertainty in a national precipitation dataset. International Journal of Climatology. doi:10.1002/joc.4986.
2015 Daly, C., J.I. Smith, and K.V. Olson. 2015. Mapping atmospheric moisture climatologies across the conterminous United States. PloS ONE 10(10):e0141140. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141140.
2015 Stoklosa, J., C. Daly, S. Foster, M. Ashcroft, and D. Warton. 2015. A climate of uncertainty: accounting for error and spatial variability in climate variables for species distribution models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6, 412-423, doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12217.
2013 Grant, N., L. Saito, M. Weltz, M. Walker, C. Daly, K. Stewart, and C. Morris. 2013. Instrumenting wildlife water developments to collect hydrometerological data in remote western U.S. catchments. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 30, 1161-1170.
2012 Daly, C., M.P. Widrlechner, M.D. Halbleib, J.I. Smith, and W.P. Gibson. 2012. Development of a new USDA plant hardiness zone map for the United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 242-264.
2012 Widrlechner, M.P., C. Daly, M. Keller, and K. Kaplan. 2012. Horticultural applications of a newly revised USDA plant hardiness zone map. HortTechnology, 22: 6-19.
2011 Pepin, N., C. Daly, and J. Lundquist. 2011. The influence of surface/free-air decoupling on temperature trend patterns in the western U.S. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 116, D10109, doi:10.1029/2010JD014769.
2009 Daly, C., D.R. Conklin, and M.H. Unsworth. 2009. Local atmospheric decoupling in complex topography alters climate change impacts. International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.2007.
2008 DiLuzio, M., G.L. Johnson, C. Daly, J.K. Eischeid, and J.G. Arnold. 2008. Constructing retrospective gridded daily precipitation and temperature datasets for the conterminous United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47: 475-497
2008 Daly, C., Halbleib, M., Smith, J.I., Gibson, W.P., Doggett, M.K., Taylor, G.H., Curtis, J., and Pasteris, P.A. 2008. Physiographically-sensitive mapping of temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States. International Journal of Climatology, 28: 2031-2064.
2007 Daly, C., J.I. Smith, and R. McKane. 2007. High-resolution spatial modeling of daily weather elements for a catchment in the Oregon Cascade Mountains, United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 46:1565-1586.
2007 Daly, C., W.P. Gibson, G.H. Taylor, M.K. Doggett, and J.I. Smith. 2007. Observer bias in daily precipitation measurements at United States Cooperative network stations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88:899-912
2006 Nolin, A.W., and C. Daly. 2006. Mapping "at risk" snow in the Pacific Northwest. Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol 7: 1164-1171.
2006 Daly, C. 2006. Guidelines for assessing the suitability of spatial climate data sets. Int. J. Climatol. Vol 26: 707-721
2005 Daly C., K. Redmond, W. Gibson, M. Doggett, J. Smith, and G. Taylor, P. Pasteris and G. Johnson 2005. Opportunities for improvements in the quality control of climate observations. 15th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, Savannah, GA, June 20-23, 2005. Paper J3.9
2005 Hannaway, D.B., C. Daly, W. Cao, W. Luo, Y. Wie, W. Zhang, A. Xu, C. Lu, X. Shi, and X. Li. 2005. Forage species suitability mapping for China using topographic, climatic and soils spatial data and quantitative plant tolerances. Scientia Agricultura Sinica, Vol. 4: 660-667.
2005 Simpson, J.J., Hufford, G.L., Daly, C., Berg, J.S., and M.D. Fleming. 2005. Comparing maps of mean monthly surface temperature and precipitation for Alaska and adjacent areas of Canada produced by two different methods. ARCTIC, Vol. 58: 2(June 2005): 137-161
2004 Daly, C., Gibson, W.P., M. Doggett, J. Smith, and G. Taylor. 2004. Up-to-date monthly climate maps for the conterminous United States. 14th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, 84th AMS Annual Meeting Combined Preprints, Seattle, WA, January 13-16, Paper P5.1.
2004 Daly, C., Gibson, W.P., M. Doggett, J. Smith, and G. Taylor. 2004. A probabilistic-spatial approach to the quality control of climate observations. 14th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, 84th AMS Annual Meeting Combined Preprints, Seattle, WA, January 13-16, Paper 7.3.
2004 Gibson, W.P., C. Daly, M. Doggett, J. Smith, and G. Taylor. 2004. Application of a probabilistic spatial quality control system to daily temperature observations in Oregon. 14th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, 84th AMS Annual Meeting Combined Preprints, Seattle, WA, January 13-16, Paper 4.4.
2004 Doggett, M., C. Daly, J. Smith, W. Gibson, G. Taylor, G. Johnson, and P. Pasteris. 2004. High-resolution 1971-2000 mean monthly temperature maps for the western United States. 14th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, 84th AMS Annual Meeting Combined Preprints, Seattle, WA, January 13-16, Paper 4.3.
2004 Taylor, G.H., and C. Daly. 2004. Using PRISM climate grids and GIS for extreme precipitation mapping. 14th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, 84th AMS Annual Meeting Combined Preprints, Seattle, WA, January 13-16, Paper 4.1.
2003 Daly, C., E.H. Helmer, and M. Quinones. 2003. Mapping the climate of Puerto Rico, Vieques, and Culebra. International Journal of Climatology, 23: 1359-1381.
2002 Gibson, W.P., C. Daly, T. Kittel, D. Nychka, C. Johns, N. Rosenbloom, A. McNab, and G. Taylor. 2002. Development of a 103-year high-resolution climate data set for the conterminous United States. AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, Portland, OR, May 13-16, 181-183.
2002 Daly, C. 2002. Climate division normals derived from topographically-sensitive climate grids. 13th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, Portland, OR, May 13-16, 177-180.
2002 Daly, C., W. P. Gibson, G.H. Taylor, G. L. Johnson, P. Pasteris. 2002. A knowledge-based approach to the statistical mapping of climate. Climate Research, 22: 99-113.
2002 Daly, C. 2002. Variable influence of terrain on precipitation patterns: delineation and use of effective terrain height in PRISM. White Paper
2002 Daly. C. 2002. A new effort to update precipitation frequency maps for the United States. 13th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, Portland, OR, May 13-16, 197-198.
2002 Johnson, G., J.Marron, C. Daly, G. Taylor, S, Hollinger, and J. Angel. 2002. Mapping erosive potential across the United States. 13th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, Portland, OR, May 13-16, 199-204.
2002 Smith, J. 2002. Mapping the thermal climate of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon. M.S. Thesis, Oregon State University, 222 pp.
2001 Daly, C., G.H. Taylor, W. P. Gibson, T.W. Parzybok, G. L. Johnson, P. Pasteris. 2001. High-quality spatial climate data sets for the United States and beyond. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 43: 1957-1962.
2000 Daly, C., W.P. Gibson, D. Hannaway, and G. Taylor. 2000. Development of new climate and plant adaptation maps for China. 12th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, Asheville, NC, May 8-11, J62-65.
1997 Gibson, W., C. Daly, and G. Taylor. 1997. Derivation of facet grids for use with the PRISM model. 10th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, Reno, NV, 208-209.
1997 Daly, C., G. Taylor, and W. Gibson. 1997. The PRISM approach to mapping precipitation and temperature. 10th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, Reno, NV, 10-12.
1997 Johnson, G.L., Daly, C., G. Taylor, C. L. Hanson, and Y. Lu. 1997. GEM model temperature and precipitation parameter variability, and distribution using PRISM. 10th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, Reno, NV, 210-214.
1997 Kittel, T.G.F., et al. 1997. A gridded historical (1895-1993) bioclimate dataset for the conterminous United States. 10th AMS Conf. on Applied Climatology, Reno, NV, 219-222.
1994 Daly, C., R.P. Neilson, and D.L. Phillips. 1994. A statistical-topographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over mountainous terrain. J. Appl. Meteor., 33, 140-158.