I recently defended my PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University. My thesis is titled Climate controls on weather extremes: studies of heat, rain, and drought.
Scientific publications
Menemenlis, S., Vecchi, G.A., Yang, W. et al. (2025). Consequential differences in satellite-era sea surface temperature trends across datasets. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02362-6. View here.
Rush, W. D., Lora, J. M., Skinner, C. B., Menemenlis, S., Shields, C. A., & 20 others. (2025). Atmospheric river detection under changing seasonality and mean-state climate: ARTMIP tier 2 paleoclimate experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130, e2024JD042222. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042222.
Raghuraman, SP., Soden, B., Clement, A., Vecchi, G. A., Menemenlis, S., Yang, W. (2024). The 2023 global warming spike was driven by El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 24 (19), 11275-11283. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11275-2024, 2024.
Menemenlis, S., Vecchi, G. A., Gao, K., Smith, J. A., Cheng, K. (2024). Extreme rainfall risk in Hurricane Ida’s aftermath: an analysis with convection-permitting ensemble hindcasts. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 81, 1165–79. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0160.1.
Menemenlis, S., White, S. M., Ibarra, D. E., Lora, J. M. (2022). A proxy-model comparison for mid-Pliocene warm period hydroclimate in the Southwestern US. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 596, 117803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117803.
Menemenlis, S., Lora, J. M., Lofverstrom, M., Chandan, D. (2021). Influence of stationary waves on mid-Pliocene atmospheric rivers and hydroclimate. Global and Planetary Change 204, 103557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103557.