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• Diffenbaugh, Noah S., M. Ashfaq, B. Shuman, J.W. Williams, P.J. Bartlein and L.C. Sloan, Summer precipitation in United States: Response to Mid Holocene changes in insolation, ocean mean-state, and ocean variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L22712, doi: 10.1029/2006GL028012, 2006.

• Diffenbaugh, Noah S., and M. Ashfaq, Response of California Current forcing to mid-Holocene changes in insolation and sea surface temperature, Paleoceanography, 22, PA3101, doi:10.1029/2006PA001382, 2007.

• Pal, Jeremy S., F. Giorgi, X. Bi, N. Elguindi, F. Solmon, X. Gao, Sara  A. Rauscher, R. Francisco, A. Zakey, J. Winter, M. Ashfaq, F.S. Syed, J.L. Bell, N.S. Diffenbaugh, J. Karmacharya, A. Konare, D. Martinez, R.P. da Rocha, L.C. Sloan and A. Steiner, Regional climate modeling for the developing world: The ICTP RegCM3 and RegCNET, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88(9), 1395-1409, 2007.

• Shuman B., John W Williams, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, M. Ashfaq, Patrick J Bartlein The Effects of Insolation and Soil-Moisture Behavior on Moisture Patterns and Variability in the Central United States during the Mid-Holocene, Quaternary Science Reviews, in revision.

• Harshvardha, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, M. Ashfaq, Ying Shi, Paul B. Shepson, Future Changes in Air Stagnation in the United States and South Asia, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, submitted, June 2008.

• Ashfaq, M., S. Ying, W.-w. Tung, R. J. Trapp, X. Gao, J. S. Pal, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Suppression of South Asian summer Monsoon precipitation in 21st century, Geophysical Research Letters, in revision.

• Ashfaq, M., L.C. Bowling, J. S. Pal, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Coupling of a hydrological Model (VIC) with a high resolution regional climate model (RegCM3) for climate change studies , in preparation.

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