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2012 Publications

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46 Publications

2012

Erosion of bulk and pyrogenic C from upland forested Sierra Nevada ecosystems (Invited). Berhe, A.A., Stacy, E.M., McClintock, M., Newman, A., Hart, S.C., Hunsaker, C.T., Johnson, D.W. (2012): Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract B34C-08.

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Insects, Fires, and Climate Change: Implications for Snow Cover, Water Resources and Ecosystem Recovery in Western North America . Brooks P.D., Harpold A.A., Biederman J.A., Litvak M.E., Broxton P.D., Gochis D., Molotch N.P., Troch P.A., Ewers B.E. (2012): Abstract B21I-02 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec (Talk). Cross-CZO

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Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs): Integrating measurements and models of Earth surface processes to improve prediction of landscape structure, function and evolution (Invited). Chorover J., Anderson S. P., Bales R. C., Duffy C., Scatena F. N., Sparks D. L., White T. (2012): Abstract GCS4A-05 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec (Talk) Cross-CZO National

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Hydrologic response to modeled snowmelt input in alpine catchments in the Southwestern United States . Driscoll J.M., Molotch N.P., Jepsen S.M., Meixner T., Williams M.W., Sickman J.O. (2012): Abstract H51B-1336 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec (Poster). Cross-CZO

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Evapotranspiration along an elevation gradient in the Sierra Nevada . Goulden, M.L., Anderson, R.G., Bales, R.C., Kelly, A.E., Meadows, M., and Winston, G.C. (2012): Journal of Geophysical Research 117 (G3).

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Critical Zone Observatory: Snowline Processes in the Southern Sierra Nevada. Hartsough, P.C., and Meadows, M.W. (2012): Mountain Research Initiative Newsletter no. 7, November 2012

2012

Paired tree and soil instrumentation: what can we learn from two instrumented sites across various gradients in a forested catchment. Hartsough, P.C., Roudneva, E., Malazian, A.I., Meadows, M.W., Bales, R.C., and Hopmans, J.W. (2012): Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract H31G-1211.

2012

Geophysics in the Critical Zone: constraints on deep weathering and water storage potential in the Southern Sierra CZO. Holbrook, W., Riebe, C.S., Hayes, J.L., Reeder, K., Harry, D.L., Malazian, A.I., Dosseto, A., Hartsough, P.C., and Hopmans, J.W. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract EP41I-03.

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Response to Comment on Soil moisture response to snowmelt and rainfall in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Hopmans, J.W., R.C. Bales, A.T. O'Geen, C.T. Hunsaker, D. Beaudette, P.C. Hartsough, A. Malazian, P. Kirchner, and Meadows, M. (2012): Vadose Zone Journal. 11

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Modeling of soil and tree water status dynamics in a mixed-conifer forest of the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory (Invited). Hopmans, J.W., Rings, J., Kamai, T., Mollaei Kandelous, M., Hartsough, P.C., and Vrugt, J.A. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract H52E-01.

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Sediment loads and erosion in forest headwater streams of the Sierra Nevada, California. Hunsaker, C.T., and D.G. Neary (2012): Proceedings of a Workshop held during the XXV IUGG General Assembly in Melbourne, 195-204

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Snowmelt Runoff and Water Yield Along Elevation and Temperature Gradients in California’s Southern Sierra Nevada . Hunsaker, C.T., Whitaker, T.W., and Bales, R.C. (2012): Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 2012. 1-12: p. 667-678.

2012

Common Critical Zone Observatory Infrastructure and Measurements. J. Chorover, F.N. Scatena, T. White, S. Anderson, A.K. Aufdenkampe, R.C. Bales, S.L. Brantley, G. Tucker. (2012): A Guide Prepared By CZO PIs, September 27, 2012 Cross-CZO National

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Interannual variability of snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, USA: Examples from two alpine watersheds. Jepsen, S.M., N. P. Molotch, M.W. Williams, K.E. Rittger, J.O. Sickman (2012): Water Resources Research 48 (2) Cross-CZO

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Three dimensional view of nutrient hotspots in a Sierra Nevada forest soil. Johnson, D.W., Meadows, M.W., Woodward, C. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract B43F-0468.

2012

Water and energy gradients produce resilience and thresholds in ecosystem function in the western Sierra Nevada Mountains. Kelly, A.E., Goulden, M., Bales, R.C., Meadows, M.W., and G. Winston (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract B51C-0559.

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A cyber-infrastructure for the measurement and estimation of large-scale hydrologic processes. Kerkez, B. (2012): University of California, Berkeley

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Design and Performance of a Wireless Sensor Network for Catchment-scale Snow and Soil Moisture Measurements. Kerkez, B., Glaser, S.D., Bales, R.C., and Meadows, M.W. (2012): Water Resources Research, 48 (9), W09515

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Sampling design and optimal sensor placement strategies for basin-scale SWE estimation. Kerkez, B., Welch, S.C., Bales, R.C., Glaser, S.D., Rittger, K.E., and R. Rice (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract C33C-0683.

2012

Connecting the snowpack to the internet of things: an IPv6 architecture for providing real-time measurements of hydrologic systems (Invited). Kerkez, B., Zhang, Z., Oroza, C., Glaser, S.D., and Bales, R.C. (2012): Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract C32B-07.

2012

Under-canopy snow accumulation and ablation measured with airborne scanning LiDAR altimetry and in-situ instrumental measurements, southern Sierra Nevada, California. Kirchner, P.B., Bales, R.C., Musselman, K.N., and Molotch, N.P. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract C14B-08.

2012

A New Method for Segmenting Individual Trees from the Lidar Point Cloud. Li, W., Guo, Q., Jakubowski, M., Kelly, M. (2012): Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 78: 75-84

2012

Controls of streamflow generation in small catchments across the snow-rain transition in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California . Liu, F., Hunsaker, C.T., and Bales, R.C. (2012): Hydrological Processes. 27 1959.

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Groundwater-surface water interactions in montane meadows of the Sierra Nevada, California. Lucas, R., Conklin, M. (2012): Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract H13D-1381.

2012

Controls of streamflow pathways in small catchments across the snow-rain transition in the Southern Sierra, California. Lui, F., Hunsaker, C.T., Bales, R.B. (2012): Hydrological Processes

2012

Moving beyond the average in cosmogenic nuclide studies of erosion and weathering. Lukens, C., Riebe, C.S., Sklar, L.S., and Shuster, D.L. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract EP41D-0822.

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Soil moisture dynamics in deep Southern Sierra Nevada Soils. Malazian, A.I., Hartsough, P.C., and Hopmans, J.W. (2012): Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract H11B-1176.

2012

Comparing methods for quantifying soil moisture in the southern Sierra Nevada, California. Meadows, M, Hartsough, P.C., Hopmans, J.W., Malazian, A., Kerkez, B., Bales, R., Kelly, A., Goulden, M. (2012): Joint Meeting of the Second International Soil Sensing Technology Conference, the Soil Physics Technical Committee Annual Meeting. January 3-7, 2012

2012

Integrating soil water measurements from plot to catchment scale in a snow-dominated, mixed-conifer forest of the southern Sierra Nevada. Meadows, M.W., Hartsough, P.C., Bales, R.C., Hopmans, J.W., and Malazian, A.I. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract H31G-1198.

2012

Elevation-dependent controls on snowmelt partitioning and vegetation response inferred from satellite observations (Invited). Molotch, N.P., Guan, B., and Trujillo, E. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract H21B-1179.

2012

Effects of forest structure on snow accumulation and melt derived from ecohydrological instrument clusters across the Western US (Invited). Molotch, N.P., Musselman, K.N., Kirchner, P.B., Bales, R.C., and Brooks, P.D. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract C33D-0684. Cross-CZO

2012

Estimating the spatial and temporal distribution of snow in mountainous terrain. Musselman, K.N. (2012): University of California

2012

Seasonal and inter-annual snowmelt patterns in the southern Sierra Nevada, California (Invited). Musselman, K.N., Molotch, N.P. and Margulis, S.A. (2012): Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract C32B-04.

2012

Integration of airborne LiDAR data and voxel-based ray tracing to determine high-resolution solar radiation dynamics at the forest floor: implications for improving stand-scale distributed snowmelt models. Musselman, K.N., Molotch, N.P., and Margulis, S.A. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2010. Abstract C14B-05.

2012

Influence of canopy structure and direct beam solar irradiance on snowmelt rates in a mixed conifer forest. Musselman, K.N., Molotch, N.P., Margulis, S.A., Kirchner, P.B., and Bales, R.C. (2012): Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 161: 46-56.

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Improved snowmelt simulations with a canopy model forced with photo-derived direct beam canopy transmissivity. Musselman, K.N., Molotch, N.P., Margulis, S.A., Lehning, M., Gustafsson, D. (2012): Water Resources Research, Vol. 48, No. 10, W10509

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Forest management effects on snow, runoff and evapotranspiration in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer headwater catchments. Ray, R.L., Saksa, P.C., Bales, R.C., and Conklin, M.H. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract GC51F-05.

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Strategic sampling of microclimate, soil moisture and sapflux for improving ecohydrological model estimates in the California Sierra. Son, K., and Tague, C. (2012): Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract H31G-1208.

2012

Fractures in the Critical Zone: Insights from GPR and seismic refraction surveys. St. Clair, J.T., Holbrook, W., Riebe, C.S. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract EP43B-0871.

2012

Lateral redistribution of dissolved vs complexed organic matter with soil. Stacy, E.M., Medding, S.M., Hart, S.C., Hunsaker, C.T., Johnson, D.W., Berhe, A.A. (2012): Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract B34C-07.

2012

The geography of forest drought vulnerability: Integrating modeling and measurements (Invited). Tague, C. (2012): Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, December 2012. Abstract GC51F-02.

2012

Elevation-dependent influence of snow accumulation on forest greening. Trujillo, E., Molotch, N.P., Goulden, M.L., Kelly, A.E., Bales, R.C. (2012): Nature Geoscience 5, 705-709