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sensible heat flux — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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sensible heat flux

Scope: climate

Papers: 21 | Mentions: 37

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Knowledge graph centered on sensible heat flux with 76 nodes and 213 connections. Top connected: Spruce, Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting, climate change, snowpack persistence, groundwater storage dynamics.

Publications (22)

The short life of upvalley wind in a high-altitude valley in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2025Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheresmeasured variable

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

2025Earth System Science Datameasured variable

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

2025Earth System Science Dataprimary focus

Hydrological control of rock carbon fluxes from shale weathering

2024Nature Watermeasured variable

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

2024Journal of Hydrometeorologymeasured variable

Mineralogical, magnetic and geochemical data constrain the pathways and extent of weathering of mineralized sedimentary rocks

2023Geochimica et Cosmochimica Actameasured variable

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Related Concepts (10)

snowpack persistence

process22 shared papers

radiative transfer modeling

model type19 shared papers

groundwater storage dynamics

process18 shared papers

leaf water content

measurement16 shared papers

streamflow

process14 shared papers

evapotranspiration

process14 shared papers

carbon cycling

process12 shared papers

weathering

process12 shared papers

CO2 flux

measurement12 shared papers

biogeochemical reactions

process11 shared papers

Frequently Associated Species

Spruce

Picea engelmannii

Pinaceae3 papers

Atriplex canescens

not mentioned3 papers

Meridion

Fragilariaceae3 papers

Engelmann spruce

subalpine fir

Sphagnum

Sphagnaceae2 papers

Bacteria

Populus tremuloides

Salicaceae2 papers

Abies lasiocarpa

Pinaceae2 papers

measured variable

Understanding the Hydrogeochemical Response of a Mountainous Watershed Using Integrated Surface-Subsurface Flow and Reactive Transport Modeling

2022Water Resources Researchmeasured variable

Improving predictions of stream CO2 concentrations and fluxes using a stream network model: A case study in the East River watershed, CO, USA

2021Global Biogeochemical Cyclesmeasured variable

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

2021Earth Surface Dynamicscontext

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From tree to tap: The impacts of climate change on biogeochemical processes during conifer needle distribution and broader implications for water quality in Colorado

2021measured variable

Modeling the Impact of Riparian Hollows on River Corridor Nitrogen Exports

2021Frontiers in Watercontext

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

2021Journal of Quaternary Sciencemeasured variable

The East River Community Observatory Data Collection: Diverse, multiscale data from a mountainous watershed in the East River, Colorado

2020Authoreameasured variable

Differential C-Q Analysis: A New Approach to Inferring Lateral Transport and Hydrologic Transients Within Multiple Reaches of a Mountainous Headwater Catchment

2020Frontiers in Watermeasured variable

Baseflow Age Distributions and Depth of Active Groundwater Flow in a Snow Dominated Mountain Headwater Basin

2020Water Resource Research doi 10.1029/2020WR028161measured variable

Challenges in Building an End-to-End System for Acquisition, Management, and Integration of Diverse Data From Sensor Networks in Watersheds: Lessons From a Mountainous Community Observatory in East River, Colorado

2019IEEE Accessmeasured variable

Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting Concentration-Discharge Patterns

2019Water Resources Researchcontext

Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and Efflux from Permanent, Semi-Permanent, and Temporary Subalpine Ponds

2019Wetlandsmeasured variable

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

2019Hydrological Processescontext

Ecological Feedbacks to Global Warming: Extending Results from Plot to Landscape Scale

1998measured variable

Terrestrial ecosytem feedbacks to global climate change

1997Annual Review Energy Environmentmeasured variable