Publications

2024
Lead

A new approach to net solar radiation in a spatially distributed snow energy balance model to improve snowmelt timing
Response of Land Surface Albedo to Fire Disturbance in the Sierra Nevada Seasonal Snow Zone Over the MODIS Record

Contributing

Synoptic analysis and WRF‐Chem model simulation of dust events in the southwestern United States
Quantifying regional variability of machine-learning-based snow water equivalent estimates across the Western United States
A cold laboratory hyperspectral imaging system to map grain size and ice layer distributions in firn cores

2023
Lead

The shrinking Great Salt Lake contributes to record high dust-on-snow deposition in the Wasatch Mountains during the 2022 snowmelt season
UAV Hyperspectral Imaging for Multiscale Assessment of Landsat 9 Snow Grain Size and Albedo
Operational water forecast ability of the HRRR-iSnobal combination: an evaluation to adapt into production environments

Contributing

Bridging the gap between airborne and spaceborne imaging spectroscopy for mountain glacier surface property retrievals
Intra-seasonal variability in supraglacial stream sediment on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Exploring mission design for imaging spectroscopy retrievals for land and aquatic ecosystems
The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

2022
Lead

Mapping snow depth and volume at the alpine watershed scale from aerial imagery using Structure from Motion
Hourly Snow Energy and Mass Balance at Atwater Study Plot, Alta, Utah

Contributing

Evaluation and Optimization of Snow Albedo Scheme in Noah‐MP Land Surface Model Using In Situ Spectral Observations in the Colorado Rockies
Sensitivity of modeled snow grain size retrievals to solar geometry, snow particle asphericity, and snowpack impurities
Mapping liquid water content in snow at the millimeter scale: an intercomparison of mixed-phase optical property models using hyperspectral imaging and in situ measurements
Interpreting Sentinel-1 SAR backscatter signals of snowpack surface melt/freeze, warming, and ripening, through field measurements and physically-based SnowModel

2021
Lead

Trends in snow cover duration across river basins in high mountain Asia from daily gap-filled MODIS fractional snow covered area

Contributing

SNICAR-ADv3: a community tool for modeling spectral snow albedo
Mapping liquid water content in snow: An intercomparison of mixed-phase optical property models using hyperspectral imaging and in situ measurements
Biological albedo reduction on ice sheets, glaciers, and snowfields
The Wasatch Environmental Observatory: A mountain to urban research network in the semi‐arid western US
COVID-19 lockdowns show reduced pollution on snow and ice in the Indus River Basin
In situ effective snow grain size mapping using a compact hyperspectral imager

2020
Contributing

The post-wildfire impact of burn severity and age on black carbon snow deposition and implications for snow water resources, cascade range, Washington
Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet

2019
Lead

Toward understanding direct absorption and grain size feedbacks by dust radiative forcing in snow with coupled snow physical and radiative transfer modeling
Assessing the ability of structure from motion to map high‐resolution snow surface elevations in complex terrain: A case study from Senator Beck Basin, CO

Contributing

IPCC SROCC: Chapter 2, High mountain areas
An examination of snow albedo estimates from MODIS and their impact on snow water equivalent reconstruction
Radiative forcing by dust and black carbon on the Juneau Icefield, Alaska

2018
Lead

Radiative forcing by light-absorbing particles in snow
Implications of a shrinking Great Salt Lake for dust on snow deposition in the Wasatch Mountains, UT, as informed by a source to sink case study from the 13–14 April 2017 dust event
Assessment of radiative forcing by light-absorbing particles in snow from in situ observations with radiative transfer modeling

Contributing

What color should glacier algae be? An ecological role for red carbon in the cryosphere
Variation in rising limb of Colorado River snowmelt runoff hydrograph controlled by dust radiative forcing in snow

2017
Lead

Daily evolution in dust and black carbon content, snow grain size, and snow albedo during snowmelt, Rocky Mountains, Colorado
A method to retrieve the spectral complex refractive index and single scattering optical properties of dust deposited in mountain snow

Contributing

The spectral and chemical measurement of pollutants on snow near South Pole, Antarctica