Liberal Arts and Sciences
Mullens Lab
Led by Esther Mullens · Geography
What we study
The Mullens Lab studies extreme weather events like droughts, floods, and freezing rain, using climate models and data analysis. They also work on improving heavy precipitation predictions and climate adaptation.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
PRES2iP project
Improving understanding and prediction of heavy precipitation at seasonal to sub-seasonal lead times.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Drought to Flood to Drought: A Review of Definitions of Precipitation Whiplash Events, What Causes Them and Their Impacts Over the Continental United States
2025 · International Journal of Climatology
Reviews definitions, causes, and impacts of precipitation whiplash events in the U.S.
- Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Freezing Rain Regimes over Eastern North America
2025 · Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Analyzes freezing rain events in eastern North America using climate data from 1979 to 2020.
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- The Role of Natural Climate Variability in Freezing Rain Occurrence across Central and Eastern North America
2025 · Journal of Climate
Examines natural climate variability’s role in freezing rain occurrence across North America.
- A Climatology of Atmospheric River Severity Using an Adjusted IVT Scaling across U.S. Subdomains
2025 · Journal of Climate
Adapts atmospheric river severity scales to different U.S. regions using IVT thresholds.
- A Weather Regime‐Based Analysis of Freezing Rain Trends in a Warmer Climate for Eastern North America
2025 · International Journal of Climatology
Analyzes freezing rain trends in eastern North America using weather regimes and climate models.
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How to reach out
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