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Seasonal Cycles Unravel Mysteries of Missing Mountain Water

Principal Investigator: Jessica Lundquist
Status: active
Field: Hydrology
Research Areas: Atmospheric Science; Biogeochemistry; Climate change; Climate science; Hydrology; Meteorology; Microbiomes; Modeling; Snow Science
Items: 33 (18 publications, 7 datasets, 8 documents)

Publications (18)

Article

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

2024Geophysical Research LettersDOI: 10.1029/2024GL109826
Article

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyDOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0049.1
Publication

An Extreme Number of Sensors in One Spot

2022Mt. Views Chronicle
Article

Threatening the vigor of the Colorado River

2020ScienceDOI: 10.1126/science.abb3624
Article

Sublimation of Snow

2024Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyDOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0191.1
Article

Thermal infrared shadow-hiding in GOES-R ABI imagery: snow and forest temperature observations from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa field campaign

2024The CryosphereDOI: 10.5194/tc-18-2257-2024
Article

Distant seas might predict Colorado River droughts

2020ScienceDOI: 10.1126/science.abf3038
Student Paper

An alpine test of the river continuum concept

1984
Student Paper

Summer snowpatches as high alpine resource sources: assessing potential impacts of climate change

2003
Article

Water returns to arid Colorado River delta

2014NatureDOI: 10.1038/507286a
Article

Relationships between atmospheric circulation and snowpack in the Gunnison River basin, Colorado

1994Journal of HydrologyDOI: 10.1016/0022-1694(94)90103-1
Student Paper

Alpine aberrations in the river continuum concept

1984
Chapter

Global change and mountain regions

2005
Student Paper

An ecological description of a close group of glacial-formed and snow-fed mountain lakes

1958
Article

Ocean warming can predict drought on Colorado river

2020New ScientistDOI: 10.1016/s0262-4079(20)31913-8
Student Paper

A Rocky Mountain Test of the River Continuum Concept

1984
Student Paper

Long-term recovery of an irrigation ditch at high altitude

1987
Article

Colorado river back from the dead

2014New ScientistDOI: 10.1016/s0262-4079(14)60509-1

Datasets (7)

Dataset

Forrest_HOBO_data_May2013-Dec2016

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/10
Dataset

hydrokeira/Si_RandomForest: Si Random Forest Analysis Code

2024DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12667698
Dataset

SnowEx Meteorological Station Measurements from Grand Mesa, CO Raw, Version 1

2022DOI: 10.5067/5ln74usqrmtl
Dataset

Conifer water use patterns in the East River Watershed, Colorado US, based on stable water isotopes and cellulose isotopes

2020DOI: 10.15485/1596123
Dataset

Conifer water use patterns in the East River Watershed, Colorado US, based on stable water isotopes and cellulose isotopes

2020DOI: 10.15485/1596123
Dataset

SnowEx Meteorological Station Measurements from Grand Mesa, CO, Version 1

2022DOI: 10.5067/497nqvj0cbex
Dataset

SnowEx20 SnowEx Grand Mesa Automated Meteorological and Snow Station Observations 2016-2021, version 1

2021DOI: 10.5067/g24180ldpmp3

Documents (8)

Document

A New Hydrologic Perspective of How Beaver Ponds Function

Document

Riparian Restoration Using Hydrologic Manipulation and Physical Disturbance

Document

Hydrogeology 101

Document

Will drought force harsh restrictions on water use? We need courageous leaders to overcome resistance

Document

Charting the Future of the Colorado River’s Undeveloped Waters

Document

Coal-Bed Methane – Whose Water Is It?

Document

Gunnison River Basin Facts

Document

Planning for Drought