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Corey Lesk
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 27
Citations - 2917
Corey Lesk is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Environmental science. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1755 citations. Previous affiliations of Corey Lesk include McGill University & Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production
TL;DR: It is shown that droughts and extreme heat significantly reduced national cereal production by 9–10%, whereas the analysis could not identify an effect from floods and extreme cold in the national data, which may help to guide agricultural priorities in international disaster risk reduction and adaptation efforts.
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A Review of Recent Advances in Research on Extreme Heat Events
Radley M. Horton,Radley M. Horton,Justin S. Mankin,Justin S. Mankin,Corey Lesk,Ethan Coffel,Colin Raymond +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report that changes in extreme heat event characteristics such as magnitude, frequency, and duration are highly sensitive to changes in mean global-scale warming, and they also explore risks associated with compound extreme events and nonlinear impacts associated with extreme heat.
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Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions
Kai Kornhuber,Kai Kornhuber,Dim Coumou,Dim Coumou,Elisabeth Vogel,Corey Lesk,Jonathan F. Donges,Jonathan F. Donges,Jascha Lehmann,Radley M. Horton +9 more
TL;DR: This article showed that Rossby waves with wavenumbers 5 and 7 have a preferred phase position and constitute recurrent atmospheric circulation patterns in summer, which can induce simultaneous heat extremes in specific regions.
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Threats to North American forests from southern pine beetle with warming winters
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present projections of the southern pine beetle expansion into pine forests of the northern United States and Canada under continued climate change, using a statistical bioclimatic range modeling approach and current-generation general circulation model (GCM) output.
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Future Hot and Dry Years Worsen Nile Basin Water Scarcity Despite Projected Precipitation Increases
Ethan Coffel,Bruce Keith,Corey Lesk,Corey Lesk,Radley M. Horton,Radley M. Horton,Erica Bower,Jonathan C. Lee,Justin S. Mankin,Justin S. Mankin +9 more
TL;DR: This article showed that despite projected increases in regional precipitation due to climate change, the frequency of hot and dry years is likely to also rise due to warming, and coupled with rapid population growth, they will exacerbate water scarcity across the Upper Nile Basin in the coming decades.