Publications

Past and current lab members are in bold

Kaufman, Z., Feldl, N., Beaulieu, C. (2024) Warm Arctic-cold Eurasia pattern driven by atmospheric blocking in models and observations. Environmental Research: Climate, in press.

Lund, R.B., Beaulieu, C., Killick, R., Lu, Q., Shi, X. (2023) Good Practices and Common Pitfalls in Climate Time Series Changepoint Techniques: A review. Journal of Climate, 36, 8041-8057.

Prochaska, J.X., Giamalaki, A., Beaulieu, C. (2023) The rapid rise of severe marine heatwaves. Environmental research: Climate, 2, 021002.

Giamalaki, A., Beaulieu, C., Prochaska, J.X. (2022) Assessing Predictability of Marine Heatwaves With Random Forests. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099069.

Shi, X, Beaulieu, C., Killick, R., Lund, R. (2022) Changepoint Detection: An Analysis of the Central England Temperature Series. Journal of Climate, 35, 2729-2742.

Giamalaki, K., Beaulieu, C., Henson, S.A., Martin, A.P., Kassem, H., Faranda, D. (2021) Future intensification of extreme Aleutian low events and their climate impacts. Nature Scientific Reports, 11:18395.

Allen, S., Henson, S., Hickman, A., Beaulieu, C., Doncaster, P.C., Johns, D.G. (2020) Interrannual stability of phytoplankton community composition in the North-East Atlantic. Marine Ecology Press Series, 655, 43-57.

Lobelle, D. Beaulieu, C., Livina, V., Sévellec, F., Frajka-Williams, E. (2020) Detectability of an AMOC decline in current and projected climate changes. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, 20.

Hammond, M.L., Beaulieu, C., Henson, S.A., Sahu, S.K. (2020) Regional Surface Chlorophyll Trends and Uncertainties in the Global Ocean. Nature Scientific Reports, 10 (1), 1-9.

Moat, B.I., Smeed, D.A., Frajka-Williams, E., Desbruyères, D.G., Beaulieu, C., Johns, W. E., Rayner, D., Sanchez-Franks, A., Baringer, M.O., Volkov, D., and Bryden, H.L. (2020) Pending recovery in the strength of the meridional overturning circulation at 26° N, Ocean Science, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2019-134, accepted.

Beaulieu, C., Killick, R., Ireland, D., Norwood, B. (2020) Considering long‐memory when testing for changepoints in surface temperature: A classification approach based on the time‐varying spectrum. Environmetrics, Special issue in memory of Ian B. MacNeill:  Change-Point Methods for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 31, doi: 10.1002/env.2568.

Dutkiewicz, S., Hickman, A.E., Jahn, O., Henson, S.A., Beaulieu, C., Monier, E. (2019) Ocean colour signature of climate change. Nature Communications, 10, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08457.

Beaulieu, C., Killick, R. (2018) Distinguishing trends and shifts from memory in climate data. Journal of Climate, 31, 9519-9543, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0863.1.

Hammond, M.L., Beaulieu, C., Henson, S.A., Sahu, S.K. (2018) Assessing the effect of potential discontinuities in the ocean color satellite record on chlorophyll trends and their uncertainties. GRL, doi:10.1029/2017GL076928.

Giamalaki, A., Beaulieu, C., Faranda, D., Henson, S., Josey, S., Martin, A. (2018) Signatures of the 1976-77 regime shift in the North Pacific revealed by statistical analysis. JGR-Oceans, doi:10.1029/2017JC013718.

Smeed, D., Josey, S., Beaulieu, C., Johns, William, Moat, B., Frajka-Williams, E., Rayner, D., Meinen, C., Baringer, M., Bryden, H., McCarthy, G. (2018) The North Atlantic ocean is in a state of reduced overturning. GRL, 45, doi: 10.1002/2017GL076350.

Frajka-Williams, E., Beaulieu, C., Duchez, A. (2017) Emerging negative Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation index in spite of warm subtropics. Nature Scientific Reports, 7, 11224, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-11046-x.

Hammond, M.L., Beaulieu, C., Sahu, S.K., Henson, S.A. (2017) Assessing trends and uncertainties in satellite era ocean chlorophyll with space-time modeling. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31, doi: 10.1002/2016GB005600.

Henson, S.A., Beaulieu, C., Ilyina, T., John, J.G., Long, M., Séférian, R., Tjiputra, T., Sarmiento, J.L. (2017) Rapid emergence of climate change in environmental drivers of marine ecosystem stress. Nature Communications, 8, 14682, doi: 10.1038/ncomms14682.

Beaulieu, C., Cole, H., Henson, S., Yool, A., Anderson, T.R., De Mora, L., Buitenhuis, E.T., Butenschon, M., Allen, I. (2016) Marine regime shifts in ocean biogeochemical models: a case study in the Gulf of Alaska, Biogeosciences, 13, 4533-4553, doi: 10.5194/bg-13-4533-2016.

Buermann, W., Beaulieu, C., Parida, B., Medvigy, D., Collatz, G.J., Sheffield, J., Sarmiento, J.L. (2016) Climate-driven shifts in continental net primary production implicated as a driver of a recent abrupt increase in the land carbon sink, Biogeosciences, 13, 1597-1607, doi:10.5194/bg-13-1597-2016.

Henson, S.A., Beaulieu, C., Lampitt, R. (2016) Observing climate change trends in ocean biogeochemistry: when and where, Global Change Biology, 22, 1561-1571, doi: 10.1111/gcb.13152.

Anderegg, W.R.L., Ballantyne, A.P., Smith, W.K., Majkut, J., Rabin, S., Kauppi, P.E., Beaulieu, C., Birdsey, R., Dunne, J., Houghton, R.A., Myneni, R.A., Pan, Y., Sarmiento, J.L., Serota, N., Shevliakova, E., Tans, P., Pacala, S. (2015) Tropical nighttime warming as a dominant driver of variability in the terrestrial carbon sink, PNAS, 112, 15591-15596, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1521479112.

Drifjhout, S., Bathiany, S., Beaulieu, C., Brovkin, V., Claussen, M., Huntingford, C., Scheffer, M., Sgubin, G., Swingedouw, D. (2015) Catalogue of abrupt shifts in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate models, PNAS, 112, E5777-E5786, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1511451112.

Henson, S.A., Cole, H., Beaulieu, C., Yool, A. (2013) The impact of global warming on seasonality of ocean primary production, 10, 4357-4369, doi: 10.5194/bg-10-4357-2013.

Beaulieu, C., Henson, S.A., Sarmiento, J.L., Dunne, J.P., Doney, S.C., Rykaczewski, R.R., Bopp, L. (2013) Factors challenging our ability to detect long-term trends in ocean chlorophyll, Biogeosciences, 10, 2711-2724, doi:10.5194/bg-10-2711-2013.

Beaulieu, C., Chen, J., Sarmiento, J.L. (2012) Change point analysis as a tool to detect abrupt climate variations, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A special issue: Climate predictions: the influence of nonlinearity and randomness, 370, 1228-1249, doi:10.1098/rsta.2011.0383.

Beaulieu, C., Charron, C., Gharbi, S., Ouarda, T.B.M.J., Ben Aissia, M.A. (2012) An improved model of the deep-draft ship squat in shallow waterways using stepwise regression trees, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 138(2), 115-121, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460.0000112.

Beaulieu, C., Sarmiento, J.L., Mikaloff Fletcher, S., Chen, J., Medvigy, D. (2012) Identification and characterization of abrupt changes in the land uptake of carbon, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, GB1007, doi:10.1029/2010GB004024.

Medvigy, D., and Beaulieu, C. (2012) Trends in daily solar radiation and precipitation coefficients of variation since 1984, Journal of Climate, 25, 1330-1339, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2011JCLI4115.1.

Rodgers, K.B., Mikaloff-Fletcher, S.E., Bianchi, D., Beaulieu, C., Galbraith, E.D., Gnanadesikan, A., Hogg, A.G., Iudicone, D., Lintner, B., Naegler, T., Reimer, P.J., Sarmiento, J.L., Slater, R.D. (2011) Interhemispheric gradient of radiocarbon reveals natural variability of Southern Ocean winds, Climate of the Past, 7, 1123-1138, doi:10.5194/cp-7-1123-2011.

Beaulieu, C., Ouarda, T.B.M.J., Seidou, O. (2010) A Bayesian Normal Homogeneity Test for the detection of artificial discontinuities in climatic series, International Journal of Climatology, 30, 2342-2357, doi:10.1002/joc.2056.

Henson, S.A., Sarmiento, J.L., Dunne, J.P., Bopp, L., Lima, I., Doney, S.C., John, J., Beaulieu, C. (2010) Detection of anthropogenic climate change in satellite records of ocean chlorophyll and productivity, Biogeosciences, 7, 621-640, doi:10.5194/bg-7-621-2010.

Sarmiento, J.L., Gloor, M., Gruber, N., Beaulieu, C., Jacobson, A.R., Fletcher, S.M., Pacala, S., Rodgers, K. (2010) Trends and regional distributions of land and ocean carbon sinks, Biogeosciences, 7, 2351-2367, doi:10.5194/bg-7-2351-2010.

Beaulieu, C., Seidou, O., Ouarda, T.B.M.J., Zhang, X. (2009) Intercomparison of homogenization techniques for precipitation data continued: the comparison of two recent Bayesian changepoint models, Water Resources Research, 45, W08410, doi:10.1029/2008WR007501.

Beaulieu, C., Gharbi, S., Ouarda, T.B.M.J., Seidou, O. (2009) A statistical approach to model the deep draft ships squat in the St. Lawrence waterway, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 135(3), 80-90, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)WW.1943-5460.0000003.

Beaulieu, C., Seidou, O. Ouarda, T.B.M.J., Zhang, X., Boulet, G., Yagouti, A. (2008) Intercomparison of homogenization techniques for precipitation data, Water Resources Research, 44, W02425, doi:10.1029/2006WR005615.

Beaulieu, C., Ouarda, T.B.M.J., Seidou, O. (2007) A review of homogenization techniques for climate data and their applicability to precipitation series (in french), Hydrological Sciences Journal, 52(1), 18-37, doi:10.1623/hysj.52.1.18.

El Adlouni, S., Beaulieu, C., Ouarda, T.B.M.J., Gosselin, P., St-Hilaire, A. (2007) Effects of climate on West Nile Virus transmission risk for decision-making in Quebec, International Journal of Health Geographics, 6(40), doi:10.1186/1476-072X-6-40.