Precipitation Variability

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Cold-season precipitation sensitivity to microphysical parameterizations: hydrologic evaluations leveraging snow lidar datasets

2024Journal of Hydrometeorology

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Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world

2024Nature Water

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Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation

2024Geophysical Research Letters

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Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East River watershed, Colorado, USA

2024Quaternary Research

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A global assessment of environmental and climate influences on wetland macroinvertebrate community structure and function

2024Global Change Biology

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Supporting advancement in weather and water prediction in the upper Colorado River Basin: The SPLASH campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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Impact of Crosstalk on Reflectivity and Doppler Measurements for the WIVERN Polarization Diversity Doppler Radar

2023IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

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Evaluating 3 decades of precipitation in the Upper Colorado River basin from a high-resolution regional climate model

2023Geoscientific Model Development

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Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography

2023

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BASIN-3D: A brokering framework to integrate diverse environmental data

2022Computers & Geosciences

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Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions

2022Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

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Modeling Spatial Distribution of Snow Water Equivalent by Combining Meteorological and Satellite Data with Lidar Maps

2022Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems

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Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

2022Global Change Biology

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Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network

2022Ecology and Evolution

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Variability of Snow and Rainfall Partitioning Into Evapotranspiration and Summer Runoff Across Nine Mountainous Catchments

2022Geophysical Research Letters,

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Quantifying Subsurface Flow and Solute Transport in a Snowmelt-Recharged Hillslope With Multiyear Water Balance

2022Water Resources Research

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Future Colorado River Basin Drought and Surplus

2022Hydrology

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The effects of spatial and temporal resolution of gridded meteorological forcing on watershed hydrological responses

2022Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

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Variability in observed stable water isotopes in snowpack across a mountainous watershed in Colorado

2022Hydrological Processes

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Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008-2019) for East Taylor subbasin (western United States)

2022Earth System Science Data Discussions

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Climate and multiple dimensions of plant diversity regulate ecosystem carbon exchange along an elevational gradient

2021Ecosphere

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A hybrid data-model approach to map soil thickness in mountain hillslopes

2021Earth Surface Dynamics

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A deep learning hybrid predictive modeling (HPM) approach for estimating evapotranspiration and ecosystem respiration

2021Hydrology and Earth Systems Science

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The influence of orbital parameters on the North American Monsoon system during the Last Interglacial Period

2021Journal of Quaternary Science

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Remote Sensing-Informed Zonation for Understanding Snow, Plant and Soil Moisture Dynamics within a Mountain Ecosystem

2020Remote Sensing

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Streamflow partitioning and transit time distribution in snow-dominated basins as a function of climate

2019Journal of Hydrology

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Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019

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A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

2019Nature Ecology & Evolutiion

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Sensitivity analysis of hydraulic conductivity and Manning’s n parameters lead to new method to scale effective hydraulic conductivity across model resolutions.

2019Hydrological Processes

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Factors Controlling Seasonal Groundwater and Solute Flux from Snow-Dominated Basins

2018Hydrological Processes

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Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change

2017

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Differences in Evolutionary History and Ploidy Type Shape the Interactions of <i>Populus tremuloides</i> Michx. with Climate

2017

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Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

2016Nature

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Scaling from traits to ecosystems: Developing a general trait driver theory via integrating trait-based and metabolic scaling theories

2015Advances in Ecological Research

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Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

2014Journal of Vegetation Science

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The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change

2012

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Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

2012Nature Climate Change

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Patterns of natural avalanche activity associated with new snow water equivalence and upper atmospheric wind direction and speed in the mountains surrounding Gothic, Colorado

2010

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Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

2004Nature

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Environmental influences on the phenology and abundance of flowering by <i>Androsace septentrionalis</i> (Primulaceae)

2003American Journal of Botany

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Geology of part of the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico

1963

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Vegetation and environmental patterns in the Crested Butte area, Gunnison County, Colorado

1962Ecological Monographs

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A brief review of the geology of the San Juan region of southwestern Colorado

1935

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Molecular diversity of dissolved organic matter reflects macroecological patterns in river networks

Observations of surface energy fluxes and meteorology in the seasonally snow-covered high-elevation East River watershed during SPLASH, 2021–2023

Long-term measurements of ice nucleating particles at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) sites worldwide

Contrasting depth dependencies of plant root presence and mass across biomes underscore prolific root-regolith interactions

Seasonality and albedo dependence of cloud radiative forcing in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed

Measurement report: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variability in aerosols in the mountainous terrain of the upper Colorado River basin using SAIL-Net

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Baseline soil inventory Mount Emmons Project Gunnison, Colorado

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Buttes Gas & Oil Iron Hill – Powder Horn

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Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

Investigating KDP signatures inside and below the dendritic growth layer with W-band Doppler radar and in situ snowfall camera

Controls from above and below: Snow, soil, and steepness drive diverging trends of subsurface water and streamflow dynamics

Cold-season precipitation sensitivity to microphysical parameterizations: hydrologic evaluations leveraging snow lidar datasets

Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world

Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation

Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East River watershed, Colorado, USA

A global assessment of environmental and climate influences on wetland macroinvertebrate community structure and function

Supporting advancement in weather and water prediction in the upper Colorado River Basin: The SPLASH campaign

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

Impact of Crosstalk on Reflectivity and Doppler Measurements for the WIVERN Polarization Diversity Doppler Radar

Evaluating 3 decades of precipitation in the Upper Colorado River basin from a high-resolution regional climate model

Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography

BASIN-3D: A brokering framework to integrate diverse environmental data

Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions

Modeling Spatial Distribution of Snow Water Equivalent by Combining Meteorological and Satellite Data with Lidar Maps

Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network

Variability of Snow and Rainfall Partitioning Into Evapotranspiration and Summer Runoff Across Nine Mountainous Catchments

Quantifying Subsurface Flow and Solute Transport in a Snowmelt-Recharged Hillslope With Multiyear Water Balance

Future Colorado River Basin Drought and Surplus

The effects of spatial and temporal resolution of gridded meteorological forcing on watershed hydrological responses

Variability in observed stable water isotopes in snowpack across a mountainous watershed in Colorado

Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008-2019) for East Taylor subbasin (western United States)

Climate and multiple dimensions of plant diversity regulate ecosystem carbon exchange along an elevational gradient

A hybrid data-model approach to map soil thickness in mountain hillslopes

A deep learning hybrid predictive modeling (HPM) approach for estimating evapotranspiration and ecosystem respiration

The influence of orbital parameters on the North American Monsoon system during the Last Interglacial Period

Remote Sensing-Informed Zonation for Understanding Snow, Plant and Soil Moisture Dynamics within a Mountain Ecosystem

Streamflow partitioning and transit time distribution in snow-dominated basins as a function of climate

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

Sensitivity analysis of hydraulic conductivity and Manning’s n parameters lead to new method to scale effective hydraulic conductivity across model resolutions.

Factors Controlling Seasonal Groundwater and Solute Flux from Snow-Dominated Basins

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change

Differences in Evolutionary History and Ploidy Type Shape the Interactions of <i>Populus tremuloides</i> Michx. with Climate