Publications

David R. Rounce, Regine Hock, Fabien Maussion, Romain Hugonnet, William Kochtitzky, Matthias Huss, Etienne Berthier, Douglas Brinkerhoff, Loris Compagno, Luke Copland, Daniel Farinotti, Brian Menounos, Robert W. McNabb (2023). Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters. Science.

Danielle S. Grogan, Shan Zuidema, Alex Prusevich, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Stanley Glidden, Richard B. Lammers (2022). Water balance model (WBM) v.1.0.0: a scalable gridded global hydrologic model with water-tracking functionality. Geoscientific Model Development.

Enrico Zorzetto, Sergey Malyshev, Nathaniel Chaney, David Paynter, Raymond Menzel, Elena Shevliakova (2022). Effects of complex terrain on the shortwave radiative balance: A sub–grid scale parameterization for the GFDL Land Model version 4.2. EGUsphere.

Lynsie R. Warr, Matthew J. Heaton, William F. Christensen, Philip A. White, Summer B. Rupper (2022). Distributional Validation of Precipitation Data Products with Spatially Varying Mixture Models. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics.

Timbo Stillinger, Karl Rittger, Mark S. Raleigh, Alex Michell, Robert E. Davis, Edward H. Bair (2022). Landsat, MODIS, and VIIRS snow cover mapping algorithm performance as validated by airborne lidar datasets. The Cryosphere Discussions.

Fadji Z. Maina, Sujay V. Kumar, Ishrat Jahan Dollan, Viviana Maggioni (2022). Development and evaluation of ensemble consensus precipitation estimates over High Mountain Asia. Journal of Hydrometeorology.

Elias Charbel Massoud, Lauren Andrews, Rolf Reichle, Andrea Molod, Jongmin Park, Sophie Ruehr, Manuela Girotto (2022). Seasonal forecasting skill for the High Mountain Asia region in the Goddard Earth Observing System. EGUsphere.

Alton C. Byers, Dan H. Shugar, Mohan Bahadur Chand, Cesar Portocarrero, Milan Shrestha, David R. Rounce, Teiji Watanabe (2022). Three Recent and Lesser-Known Glacier-Related Flood Mechanisms in High Mountain Environments. Mountain Research and Development.

Jawairia A. Ahmad, Barton A. Forman, Sujay V. Kumar (2022). Soil moisture estimation in South Asia via assimilation of SMAP retrievals. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

Fadji Zaouna Maina, Sujay V. Kumar, Clement Albergel, Sarith P. Mahanama (2022). Warming, increase in precipitation, and irrigation enhance greening in High Mountain Asia. Communications Earth & Environment.

Caroline Jane Taylor, Joanne Rachel Carr, David Robert Rounce (2022). Spatiotemporal supraglacial pond and ice cliff changes in the Bhutan–Tibet border region from 2016 to 2018. Journal of Glaciology.

Chayan Roychoudhury, Cenlin He, Rajesh Kumar, John M. McKinnon, Avelino F. Arellano Jr. (2022). On the Relevance of Aerosols to Snow Cover Variability Over High Mountain Asia. Geophysical Research Letters.

Alexandra Giese, Summer Rupper, Durban Keeler, Eric Johnson, Richard Forster (2022). Indus River Basin Glacier Melt at the Subbasin Scale. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Maximillian Van Wyk de Vries, Shashank Bhushan, Mylène Jacquemart, César Deschamps-Berger, Etienne Berthier, Simon Gascoin, David E. Shean, Dan H. Shugar, Andreas Kääb (2021). Pre-collapse motion of the February 2021 Chamoli rock-ice avalanche, Indian Himalaya. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions.

Tamsin L. Edwards, Sophie Nowicki, Ben Marzeion, Regine Hock, Heiko Goelzer, Hélène Seroussi, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Donald A. Slater, Fiona E. Turner, Christopher J. Smith, Christine M. McKenna, Erika Simon, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Jonathan M. Gregory, Eric Larour, William H. Lipscomb, Antony J. Payne, Andrew Shepherd, Cécile Agosta, Patrick Alexander, Torsten Albrecht, Brian Anderson, Xylar Asay-Davis, Andy Aschwanden, Alice Barthel, Andrew Bliss, Reinhard Calov, Christopher Chambers, Nicolas Champollion, Youngmin Choi, Richard Cullather, Joshua Cuzzone, Christophe Dumas, Denis Felikson, Xavier Fettweis, Koji Fujita, Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi, Rupert Gladstone, Nicholas R. Golledge, Ralf Greve, Tore Hattermann, Matthew J. Hoffman, Angelika Humbert, Matthias Huss, Philippe Huybrechts, Walter Immerzeel, Thomas Kleiner, Philip Kraaijenbrink, Sébastien Le clec’h, Victoria Lee, Gunter R. Leguy, Christopher M. Little, Daniel P. Lowry, Jan-Hendrik Malles, Daniel F. Martin, Fabien Maussion, Mathieu Morlighem, James F. O’Neill, Isabel Nias, Frank Pattyn, Tyler Pelle, Stephen F. Price, Aurélien Quiquet, Valentina Radić, Ronja Reese, David R. Rounce, Martin Rückamp, Akiko Sakai, Courtney Shafer, Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel, Sarah Shannon, Robin S. Smith, Fiammetta Straneo, Sainan Sun, Lev Tarasov, Luke D. Trusel, Jonas Van Breedam, Roderik van de Wal, Michiel van den Broeke, Ricarda Winkelmann, Harry Zekollari, Chen Zhao, Tong Zhang, Thomas Zwinger (2021). Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise. Nature.

Edward Bair, Timbo Stillinger, Karl Rittger, McKenzie Skiles (2021). COVID-19 lockdowns show reduced pollution on snow and ice in the Indus River Basin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Collin Riley, Summer Rupper, James W. Steenburgh, Courtenay Strong, Adam K. Kochanski, Savanna Wolvin (2021). Characteristics of Historical Precipitation in High Mountain Asia Based on a 15-Year High Resolution Dynamical Downscaling. Atmosphere.

Fang Chen, Meimei Zhang, Huadong Guo, Simon Allen, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Umesh K. Haritashya, C. Scott Watson (2021). Annual 30 m dataset for glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017. Earth System Science Data.

Chelsea Ackroyd, S. McKenzie Skiles, Karl Rittger, Joachim Meyer (2021). Trends in Snow Cover Duration Across River Basins in High Mountain Asia From Daily Gap-Filled MODIS Fractional Snow Covered Area. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Jawairia A. Ahmad, Barton A. Forman, Edward H. Bair, Sujay V. Kumar (2021). Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature Assimilation to Improve Snow Mass Estimation Across Complex Terrain in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

Karl Rittger, Kat J. Bormann, Edward H. Bair, Jeff Dozier, Thomas H. Painter (2021). Evaluation of VIIRS and MODIS Snow Cover Fraction in High-Mountain Asia Using Landsat 8 OLI. Frontiers in Remote Sensing.

D. R. Rounce, R. Hock, R. W. McNabb, R. Millan, C. Sommer, M. H. Braun, P. Malz, F. Maussion, J. Mouginot, T. C. Seehaus, D. E. Shean (2021). Distributed Global Debris Thickness Estimates Reveal Debris Significantly Impacts Glacier Mass Balance. Geophysical Research Letters.

Yifan Zhou, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Sujay V. Kumar, Kristi R. Arsenault, Mir A. Matin, Faisal M. Qamer, Ryan A. Zamora, Kiran Shakya (2021). Developing a hydrological monitoring and sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting system for South and Southeast Asian river basins. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

Yara Mohajerani, David Shean, Anthony Arendt, Tyler C. Sutterley (2021). Automated Dynamic Mascon Generation for GRACE and GRACE-FO Harmonic Processing. Remote Sensing.

David P. S. Bekaert, Alexander L. Handwerger, Piyush Agram, Dalia B. Kirschbaum (2020). InSAR-based detection method for mapping and monitoring slow-moving landslides in remote regions with steep and mountainous terrain: An application to Nepal. Remote Sensing of Environment.

Dan H. Shugar, Aaron Burr, Umesh K. Haritashya, Jeffrey S. Kargel, C. Scott Watson, Maureen C. Kennedy, Alexandre R. Bevington, Richard A. Betts, Stephan Harrison, Katherine Strattman (2020). Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990. Nature Climate Change.

Jigjidsurengiin Batbaatar, Alan R. Gillespie, Michele Koppes, Douglas H. Clark, Oliver A. Chadwick, David Fink, Ari Matmon, Summer Rupper (2020). Glacier development in continental climate regions of central Asia.

J. M. Maurer, J. M. Schaefer, J. B. Russell, S. Rupper, N. Wangdi, A. E. Putnam, N. Young (2020). Seismic observations, numerical modeling, and geomorphic analysis of a glacier lake outburst flood in the Himalayas. Science Advances.

David R. Rounce, Tushar Khurana, Margaret B. Short, Regine Hock, David E. Shean, Douglas J. Brinkerhoff (2020). Quantifying parameter uncertainty in a large-scale glacier evolution model using Bayesian inference: application to High Mountain Asia. Journal of Glaciology.

Ghulam Hussain Dars, Courtenay Strong, Adam K. Kochanski, Kamran Ansari, Syed Hammad Ali (2020). The Spatiotemporal Variability of Temperature and Precipitation Over the Upper Indus Basin: An Evaluation of 15 Year WRF Simulations. Applied Sciences.

Ukkyo Jeong, Si-Chee Tsay, David M. Giles, Brent N. Holben, Robert J. Swap, Nader Abuhassan, Jay R. Herman (2020). The SMART-s Trace Gas and Aerosol Inversions: I. Algorithm Theoretical Basis for Column Property Retrievals. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Fanny Brun, Désirée Silvana Treichler, David Shean, Walter W. Immerzeel (2020). Limited Contribution of Glacier Mass Loss to the Recent Increase in Tibetan Plateau Lake Volume. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Alice F. Hill, Karl Rittger, Tshewang Dendup, Dendup Tshering, Thomas H. Painter (2020). How Important Is Meltwater to the Chamkhar Chhu Headwaters of the Brahmaputra River?. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Thomas Stanley, Dalia B. Kirschbaum, Salvatore Pascale, Sarah Kapnick (2020). Extreme Precipitation in the Himalayan Landslide Hotspot. Satellite Precipitation Measurement: Volume 2.

Stephanie C Herring, Nikolaos Christidis, Andrew Hoell, Martin P Hoerling, Peter A Stott, Andrew King, Thomas Knutson, John Nielsen-Gammon, Friederike Otto (2020). EXPLAINING EXTREME EVENTS OF 2018 FROM A CLIMATE PERSPECTIVE.

Anthony Arendt, Nir Krakauer, Sujay V. Kumar, David R. Rounce, Summer Rupper (2020). Editorial: Collaborative Research to Address Changes in the Climate, Hydrology and Cryosphere of High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Shruti K. Mishra, Thomas D. Veselka, Alexander A. Prusevich, Danielle S. Grogan, Richard B. Lammers, David R. Rounce, Syed H. Ali, Mark H. Christian (2020). Differential Impact of Climate Change on the Hydropower Economics of Two River Basins in High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Environmental Science.

Eric Johnson, Summer Rupper (2020). An Examination of Physical Processes That Trigger the Albedo-Feedback on Glacier Surfaces and Implications for Regional Glacier Mass Balance Across High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science.

David E. Shean, Shashank Bhushan, Paul Montesano, David R. Rounce, Anthony Arendt, Batuhan Osmanoglu (2020). A Systematic, Regional Assessment of High Mountain Asia Glacier Mass Balance. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Regine Hock, Andrew Bliss, Ben Marzeion, Rianne H. Giesen, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Matthias Huss, Valentina Radić, Aimée B. A. Slangen (2019). GlacierMIP – A model intercomparison of global-scale glacier mass-balance models and projections. Journal of Glaciology.

J. M. Maurer, J. M. Schaefer, S. Rupper, A. Corley (2019). Acceleration of ice loss across the Himalayas over the past 40 years. Science Advances.

Chandan (ORCID:0000000248505118) Sarangi, Yun Qian, Karl (ORCID:000000028733434X) Rittger, Kathryn J. Bormann, Ying Liu, Hailong Wang, Hui Wan, Guangxing Lin, Thomas H. (ORCID:0000000279635812) Painter (2019). Impact of light-absorbing particles on snow albedo darkening and associated radiative forcing over high-mountain Asia: high-resolution WRF-Chem modeling and new satellite observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Online).

Alton C. Byers, David R. Rounce, Dan H. Shugar, Jonathan M. Lala, Elizabeth A. Byers, Dhananjay Regmi (2019). A rockfall-induced glacial lake outburst flood, Upper Barun Valley, Nepal. Landslides.

Bryant D. Loomis, Alexandra S. Richey, Anthony A. Arendt, Ravi Appana, Y.-J. C. Deweese, Bart A. Forman, Sujay V. Kumar, Terence J. Sabaka, David E. Shean (2019). Water Storage Trends in High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Pukar Amatya, Dalia Kirschbaum, Thomas Stanley (2019). Use of Very High-Resolution Optical Data for Landslide Mapping and Susceptibility Analysis along the Karnali Highway, Nepal. Remote Sensing.

Dalia Kirschbaum, C. Scott Watson, David R. Rounce, Dan H. Shugar, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Umesh K. Haritashya, Pukar Amatya, David Shean, Eric R. Anderson, Minjeong Jo (2019). The State of Remote Sensing Capabilities of Cascading Hazards Over High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Matthew Olson, Summer Rupper, David E. Shean (2019). Terrain Induced Biases in Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation Due to Digital Elevation Model Resolution for Glaciers in Complex Terrain. Frontiers in Earth Science.

C. Scott Watson, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dhananjay Regmi, Summer Rupper, Joshua M. Maurer, Alina Karki (2019). Shrinkage of Nepal’s Second Largest Lake (Phewa Tal) Due to Watershed Degradation and Increased Sediment Influx. Remote Sensing.

C. Scott Watson, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dan H. Shugar, Umesh K. Haritashya, Enrico Schiassi, Roberto Furfaro (2019). Mass loss from calving in Himalayan proglacial lakes. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Jewell Lund, Richard Robert Forster, Summer B. Rupper, H. P. Marshall, Elias J. Deeb, Muhammad Zia Ur Rahman Hashmi (2019). Mapping snowmelt progression in the Upper Indus Basin with synthetic aperture radar. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Matthew Olson, Summer Rupper (2019). Impacts of topographic shading on direct solar radiation for valley glaciers in complex topography. The Cryosphere.

Enrico Schiassi, Roberto Furfaro, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Cameron Scott Watson, Dan H. Shugar, Umesh K. Haritashya (2019). GLAM Bio-Lith RT: A Tool for Remote Sensing Reflectance Simulation and Water Components Concentration Retrieval in Glacial Lakes. Frontiers in Earth Science.

David R. Rounce, Regine Hock, David Shean (2019). Glacier mass change in High Mountain Asia through 2100 using the open-source Python Glacier Evolution Model (PyGEM). Frontiers in Earth Science.

Yonghwan Kwon, Barton A. Forman, Jawairia A. Ahmad, Sujay V. Kumar, Yeosang Yoon (2019). Exploring the Utility of Machine Learning-Based Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature Data Assimilation over Terrestrial Snow in High Mountain Asia. Remote Sensing.

Yeosang Yoon, Sujay V. Kumar, Barton A. Forman, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Yonghwan Kwon, Yun Qian, Summer Rupper, Viviana Maggioni, Paul Houser, Dalia Kirschbaum, Alexandra Richey, Anthony Arendt, David Mocko, Jossy Jacob, Soumendra Bhanja, Abhijit Mukherjee (2019). Evaluating the Uncertainty of Terrestrial Water Budget Components Over High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Yufei Liu, Steven A. Margulis (2019). Deriving Bias and Uncertainty in MERRA-2 Snowfall Precipitation Over High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Michael F. Christensen, Matthew J. Heaton, Summer Rupper, C. Shane Reese, William F. Christensen (2019). Bayesian Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Precipitation in the Indus Watershed. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Yuan Xue, Paul R. Houser, Viviana Maggioni, Yiwen Mei, Sujay V. Kumar, Yeosang Yoon (2019). Assimilation of Satellite-Based Snow Cover and Freeze/Thaw Observations Over High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Jawairia A. Ahmad, Barton A. Forman, Yonghwan Kwon (2019). Analyzing Machine Learning Predictions of Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature Spectral Difference Over Snow-Covered Terrain in High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Adina E. Racoviteanu, Karl Rittger, Richard Armstrong (2019). An Automated Approach for Estimating Snowline Altitudes in the Karakoram and Eastern Himalaya From Remote Sensing. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Steven A. Margulis, Yufei Liu, Elisabeth Baldo (2019). A Joint Landsat- and MODIS-Based Reanalysis Approach for Midlatitude Montane Seasonal Snow Characterization. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Evan S. Miles, C. Scott Watson, Fanny Brun, Etienne Berthier, Michel Esteves, Duncan J. Quincey, Katie E. Miles, Bryn Hubbard, Patrick Wagnon (2018). Glacial and geomorphic effects of a supraglacial lake drainage and outburst event, Everest region, Nepal Himalaya. The Cryosphere.

S. McKenzie Skiles, Mark Flanner, Joseph M. Cook, Marie Dumont, Thomas H. Painter (2018). Radiative forcing by light-absorbing particles in snow. Nature Climate Change.

C. Scott Watson, Owen King, Evan S. Miles, Duncan J. Quincey (2018). Optimising NDWI supraglacial pond classification on Himalayan debris-covered glaciers. Remote Sensing of Environment.

William K. M. Lau, Kyu-Myong Kim (2018). Impact of Snow Darkening by Deposition of Light-Absorbing Aerosols on Snow Cover in the Himalayas–Tibetan Plateau and Influence on the Asian Summer Monsoon: A Possible Mechanism for the Blanford Hypothesis. Atmosphere.

Kat J. Bormann, Ross D. Brown, Chris Derksen, Thomas H. Painter (2018). Estimating snow-cover trends from space. Nature Climate Change.

Debjani Ghatak, Benjamin Zaitchik, Sujay Kumar, Mir A. Matin, Birendra Bajracharya, Christopher Hain, Martha Anderson (2018). Influence of Precipitation Forcing Uncertainty on Hydrological Simulations with the NASA South Asia Land Data Assimilation System. Hydrology.

Adrien Gilbert, Silvan Leinss, Jeffrey Kargel, Andreas Kääb, Simon Gascoin, Gregory Leonard, Etienne Berthier, Alina Karki, Tandong Yao (2018). Mechanisms leading to the 2016 giant twin glacier collapses, Aru Range, Tibet. The Cryosphere.

Shruti Khadka Mishra, John Hayse, Thomas Veselka, Eugene Yan, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha, Kirk LaGory, Kyle McDonald, Nicholas Steiner (2018). An integrated assessment approach for estimating the economic impacts of climate change on River systems: An application to hydropower and fisheries in a Himalayan River, Trishuli. Environmental Science & Policy.

David R. Rounce, Owen King, Michael McCarthy, David E. Shean, Franco Salerno (2018). Quantifying Debris Thickness of Debris-Covered Glaciers in the Everest Region of Nepal Through Inversion of a Subdebris Melt Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.

Umesh K. Haritashya, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dan H. Shugar, Gregory J. Leonard, Katherine Strattman, C. Scott Watson, David Shean, Stephan Harrison, Kyle T. Mandli, Dhananjay Regmi (2018). Evolution and Controls of Large Glacial Lakes in the Nepal Himalaya. Remote Sensing.

Stephan Harrison, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Christian Huggel, John Reynolds, Dan H. Shugar, Richard A. Betts, Adam Emmer, Neil Glasser, Umesh K. Haritashya, Jan Klimeš, Liam Reinhardt, Yvonne Schaub, Andy Wiltshire, Dhananjay Regmi, Vít Vilímek (2018). Climate change and the global pattern of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods. The Cryosphere.

Mohd Farooq Azam, Patrick Wagnon, Etienne Berthier, Christian Vincent, Koji Fujita, Jeffrey S. Kargel (2018). Review of the status and mass changes of Himalayan-Karakoram glaciers. Journal of Glaciology.

Ukkyo Jeong, Si-Chee Tsay, Peter Pantina, James J. Butler, Adrian M. Loftus, Nader Abuhassan, Jay R. Herman, Alexander Dimov, Brent N. Holben, Robert J. Swap (2018). Langley Calibration Analysis of Solar Spectroradiometric Measurements: Spectral Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrievals. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Chandan Sarangi, Yun Qian, Karl Rittger, Kat J. Bormann, Ying Liu, Hailong Wang, Hui Wan, Guangxing Lin, Thomas H. Painter (2018). Impact of light-absorbing particles on snow albedo darkening and associated radiative forcing over High Mountain Asia: High resolution WRF-Chem modeling and new satellite observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Rupal M. Brahmbhatt, I. M. Bahuguna, B. P. Rathore, Anil V. Kulkarni, Rajesh D. Shah, A. S. Rajawat, Jeffrey S. Kargel (2017). Significance of glacio-morphological factors in glacier retreat: a case study of part of Chenab basin, Himalaya. Journal of Mountain Science.

Enrico Schiassi, Roberto Furfaro, Domiziano Mostacci (2016). Bayesian inversion of coupled radiative and heat transfer models for asteroid regoliths and lakes. Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids.