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Publications
Peer-reviewed Publications

Lundquist, J. D. and B. Huggett. Evergreen trees as inexpensive radiation shields for temperature sensors. Water Resources Research, special issue on Measurement Methods, submitted March 2008.

Lundquist, J. D., B. Huggett, and H. Roop. Strategic use of stream stage recorders as proxy rain gauges in complex terrain. Water Resources Research, special issue on Measurement Methods, submitted March 2008. Online supplement with installation details.

Lundquist, J. D. Using inexpensive temperature sensors to monitor the duration and heterogeneity of snow-covered areas in complex terrain. Water Resources Research, special issue on Measurement Methods, submitted March 2008.

Lundquist, J.D. and J. Roche, 2008. Climate change and water supply in western national parks, Park Science, accepted.

Lundquist, J.D., N. Pepin, and C. Rochford, 2008. Automated algorithm for mapping regions of cold-air ponding in complex terrain, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.

Pepin, N. and J.D. Lundquist, 2008. Temperature trends at high elevations: Patterns across the globe. Geophysical Reserach Letters, accepted.

Lundquist, J. D., P. J. Neiman, B. Martner, A. B. White, D. J. Gottas, and F. M. Ralph, 2008. Rain versus Snow in the Sierra Nevada, California: Comparing radar and surface observations of melting level. J. Hydrometeorology, 9, 194-211.

Neiman, P. J., F. M. Ralph, G. A. Wick, J. D. Lundquist, and M. D. Dettinger, 2008. Meteorological characteristics and overland precipitation impacts of atmospheric rivers affecting the west coast of North America based on eight years of SSM/I satellite observations. J. Hydrometeorology, 9, 22-47.

Lundquist, J. D. and D. R. Cayan, 2007. Surface temperature patterns in complex terrain: daily variations and long-term change in the central Sierra Nevada, California. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D11124, doi:10.1029/2006JD007561.

Lundquist, J. and A. Flint, 2006. Onset of snowmelt and streamflow in 2004 in the Western United States: How shading may affect spring streamflow timing in a warmer world. J. Hydrometeorology, 7, 1199-1217.

Lundquist, J., M. Dettinger, and D. Cayan, 2005. Snow-fed streamflow timing at different basin scales: Case study of the Tuolumne River above Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite, California. Water Resour. Res., 41, W07005, doi:10.1029/2004WR003933.

Lundquist, J. and M. Dettinger, 2005. How snowpack heterogeneity affects diurnal streamflow timing. Water Resour. Res., 41, W05007, doi:10.1029/2004WR0003649.

Lundquist, J., D. Cayan, and M. Dettinger, 2004. Spring onset in the Sierra Nevada: When is snowmelt independent of elevation? J. Hydromet., 5, 325-340.** Paper selected to receive Wagner Memorial Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences, 2003.

Lundquist, J.D., D.R. Cayan and M.D. Dettinger, 2003. Meteorology and hydrology in Yosemite National Park: A sensor network application. In Information Processing in Sensor Networks, F. Zhao and L. Guibas (eds.): IPSN 2003, LNCS 2634, 518-528.

Lundquist, J. and D. Cayan, 2002. Seasonal and spatial patterns in diurnal cycles in streamflow in the Western United States. J. Hydromet., 3, 591-603.**** Featured as Paper of Note in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, January 2003.


Conference Proceedings
Lundquist J.D. and C. Rochford, 2007. Distributed temperatures in the snow zone: Spatial patterns and innovative measurement techniques, Proc. of the Western Snow Conference, April 16-19, 2007, Kailua-Kona, HI, 75th meeting, in press.

Book Chapter and Technical Reports (Peer-reviewed)

Book Chapters:

Lundquist, J. D., I. Stewart, M. D. Dettinger, and D. C. Cayan, 2007. Variability and trends in spring runoff in the western United States, Chapter 5 in Climate Warming in Western North America: Evidence and Environmental Effects, Ed: F. Wagner, University of Utah Press, in press.

Technical Reports

Cooper, D., J. Lundquist, J. King, A Flint, L. Flint, E. Wolf, F. Lott, 2006. Effects of the Tioga Road on hydrologic processes and Lodgepole Pine invasion into Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, Report prepared for Yosemite National Park. 146 pp.