05/01/2006

12/20/2006

Crimmins, M. A., 2006: A Synoptic Climatological Analysis of Extreme Fire Weather Conditions Across the Southwest United States. International Journal of Climatology, 26, 1001-1016.

Bureau of Land Management - http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/wraws/) RAWS Data

A. Ruiz T.W. Sammis G.A. Picchioni J.G. Mexal 2005 Irrigation scheduling protocol for treated industrial effluent in the Chihuahua desert 2006 AWWA 98:2 page 123-132

Andales, Allen. J. Wang. T. W. Sammis J. G. Mexal. L.J. Simmons, D. R. Miller, V. P. Gutschick. 2006 A model of pecan tree growth for the management of pruning and irrigation. Agricultural Water Management 84:77-88

Andales, A., J. Wang, T. W. Sammis, J. G. Mexal, L. J. Simmons, and D. R. Miller, 2006. Pecan tree growth-irrigation- pruning management model. Agricultural Water Management. Volume 84, Issues 1-2 , Pages 77-88.

Wang, J., T.W. Sammis, C.A. Meier, L.J. Simmons, D.R. Miller, and Z. Samani. 2005. A modified SEBAL model for spatially estimating pecan consumptive water use for Las Cruces, New Mexico. 15th Conference on Applied Climatology. Hilton Savannah DeSoto, Savannah, Georgia. 20-24 June, 2005. Paper number 7.13.

Holmén, B., D. Miller, A. Hiscox, W. Yang, J. Wang, T. Sammis, and R. Bottoms. 2006. Aerosol Emissions from Agricultural Field Operations. 2006. Workshop on Agricultural Air Quality: State of the Science Bolger Center, Potomac, Maryland, near Washington DC. June 5  8, 2006.

Wang, J., T.W. Sammis, C.A. Meier, L.J. Simmons, D.R. Miller, and D. Bathke. 2005. Remote Sensing Vegetation Recovery after Forest Fires using Energy Balance. Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology Sponsored by American Meteorological Society Radisson Hotel Canmore, AB, Canada 2527 October, 2005. Paper number 7.6.

Wang, J., V.P. Gutschick, T.W. Sammis, and C.A. Meier. 2005. Estimating evapotranspiration over the Jornada with remote sensing using Surface Energy Balance. Fifteenth Annual Jornada Symposium. New Mexico State University. July 14, 2005.

Wang, J., T.W. Sammis, and V. P. Gutshcick, 2006. Inferring complex patterns of surface flux and atmospheric circulation via remote sensing. Flux Measurements in Difficult Conditions, a Specialist Workshop. Boulder, Colorado, USA, 26-28 January 2006.

Wang, J., T. W. Sammis, C. A. Meier, L. J. Simmons, D. R. Miller. 2006. Remote sensing evapotranspiration using energy balance algorithm and algorithm sensitivity analysis. Lineae Terrarum, International Borders Conference. El Paso, Texas, USA - Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. March 27 - 30, 2006.

Wang, J., Ted W. Sammis, and Scott L. Willimas. 2006. Review of satellite remote sensing use in forest health studies. Global Vegetation Workshop. August 8-10, 2006. University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.

Wang, J., T.W. Sammis, and J.G. Mexal. 2005. Vegetation recovery three years after los alamos forest fire estimated from ASTER satellite data. New Mexico section, American Society of Agricultural Engineers. Truth or Consequences, NM. March 4, 2005.

Wang, J., T.W. Sammis, 2005. Pecan tree water-nutrient management model. Agricultural Nutrient Management Session. 2005 Southern Region Water Quality Conference. Holiday Inn North, Lexington, Kentucky. October 23rd - 26th, 2005.

Wang, J., T.W. Sammis, 2005. A sensitivity analysis on remote sensing evapotranspiration algorithm-surface energy balance algorithm for land. American Geography Union Conference, San Francisco, CA, December, 2005.

Valentine, Beth, George H. Taylor, Jeffrey K. Stone and Richard R. Halse, 2006. Equine cutaneous fungal granuloma: a study of 44 lesions from 34 horses. European Society of Veterinary Dermatology. 17; 266272.

Natural Resources Conservation Service - Provide weekly snowpack and drought monitor updates (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/water/drought/wdr.pl)

NRCS soil narrative climatology: (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/soil-nar.pl)

NRCS Climate Conservation datasets by county - (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/climate/climate-map.html) and as described at: (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/climate/wets_doc.html)

NRCS - to publicize the utility of PRISM, several articles have been released on NRCS This Week on-line newsletter:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/061406/techtip06.14.06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/070506/techtip07.05.06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/071906/techtip07-19-06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/080906/techtip08.09.06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/083006/techtip08.30.06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/101806/techtip101806.html

AgriMet: An Irrigation Water Management Tool Palmer, P.L., 2006, Proceedings, Ground Water and Surface Water Under Stress, USCID Conference, Boise Idaho, October 25-27, 2006.

US Bureau of Reclamation - AgriMet websites:
US Bureau of Reclamation AgriMet websites - Pacific Northwest Region: http://www.usbr.gov/pn/agrimet; Great Plains Region:http://www.usbr.gov/gp/agrimet/index.cfm

Malek, E., Davis. T., Martin, R.S., and Silva, P.J. 2006. Meteorological and environmental aspects of one of the worst national air pollution episodes (January, 2004) in Logan, Cache Valley, Utah, U.S.A. Atmos. Research. 79: 108-122.

Gray, S.T., J.L. Betancourt, S.T. Jackson and R.G. Eddy. 2006. Roll of multidecadal climate variability in a range extension of pinyon pine. Ecology 87:1124-1130.

Pederson, G.T., S.T. Gray, D.B. Fagre and L.J. Graumlich. 2006. Long-duration drought variability and impacts on ecosystem services: A case study from Glacier National Park, Montana USA. Earth Interactions 10(4):1-28.

Woodhouse, C.A., S.T. Gray and D.M. Meko. 2006. Updated streamflow reconstructions for the Upper Colorado River Basin. Water Resources Research, 42:W05415, doi:10.1029/2005WR004455.

Wyoming Water Resources Data System and State Climate Office documents at:
http://www.wrds.uwyo.edu/wrds/wsc/dtf/drought.html
http://www.wrds.uwyo.edu/wrds/climatological.html

11/01/2007

ARIZONA

Crimmins, M. A., 2006: A Synoptic Climatological Analysis of Extreme Fire Weather Conditions Across the Southwest United States. International Journal of Climatology, 26, 1001-1016.

NEW MEXICO CLIMATE CENTER PROGRAM

Andales, A., J. Wang, T. W. Sammis, J. G. Mexal, L.J. Simmons, D. R. Miller, V. P. Gutschick., 2006: A model of pecan tree growth for the management of pruning and irrigation. Agricultural Water Management, 84, pp. 77-88.

DeMouche, L., D. Bathke, and N. Doesken, Master Gardeners Role in Encouraging Water Conservation Using a Rain Gauge Network, Journal of Extension, in press.

Kallestad, J.C., T. W. Sammis, J. G. Mexal, and J.White, 2006: Monitoring and Management of Pecan Orchard Irrigation: A Case Study. Hort Technology, 16(4), 1-7.

A. Ruiz, A., T.W. Sammis, G.A. Picchioni, and J.G. Mexal, 2005: Irrigation scheduling protocol for treated industrial effluent in the Chihuahua desert. 2006 AWWA, 98(2):2 , pp.age 123-132.

Andales, Allen. J. Wang. T. W. Sammis J. G. Mexal. L.J. Simmons, D. R. Miller, V. P. Gutschick. 2006: A model of pecan tree growth for the management of pruning and irrigation. Agricultural Water Management 84:77-88.

DeMouche, L., D. Bathke, and N. Doesken, Master Gardeners Role in Encouraging Water Conservation Using a Rain Gauge Network, Journal of Extension, in press.

Saucedo, T.W. Sammis, G.A. Picchioni, and J.G. Mexal, 2006: Wastewater application and water use of Larrea tridentate. Ag Water Management, 82(3), 343-353.

Simmons, L.J., J. Wang, T. W. Sammis, and D. R. Miller, 2007: An evaluation of two inexpensive energy balance techniques for measuring water use in flood-irrigated pecans. (Carya illinoinensis). Ag Water Management, 88, 181-191.

Wang, J., T. W. Sammis, A.A. Andales, L. J. Simmons, V. P. Gutschick, and D. R. Miller, 2007: Crop coefficients of open-canopy pecan orchards. Ag Water Management, 88, 253-262.

OREGON CLIMATE SERVICE and PRISM Group)

Valentine, Beth, George H. Taylor, Jeffrey K. Stone and Richard R. Halse, 2006. Equine cutaneous fungal granuloma: a study of 44 lesions from 34 horses. European Society of Veterinary Dermatology. 17; 266272.

NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE

New Weather Generator Technology (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/climate/gem.html) dataset and model (coding) has been released: ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/downloads/climate/gem/GEM_6_States

Adjusted wind data has been released: ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/support/climate/wind_daily
that contains the follow datasets: ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/support/climate/wind_daily/readme_first.txt

Provide weekly snowpack and drought monitor updates (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/water/drought/wdr.pl)

Provide soil narrative climatology: (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/soil-nar.pl)

Provide Climate Conservation datasets by county (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/climate/climate-map.html) and as described at: (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/climate/wets_doc.html)

In an effort to publicize the utility of PRISM, an article was released on NRCS This Week on-line newsletter:

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/122006/techtip11.20.06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/061406/techtip06.14.06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/070506/techtip07.05.06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/071906/techtip07-19-06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/080906/techtip08.09.06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/083006/techtip08.30.06.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/news/thisweek/2006/101806/techtip101806.html

US BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

AgriMet: An Irrigation Water Management Tool Palmer, P.L., 2006, Proceedings, Ground Water and Surface Water Under Stress, USCID Conference, Boise Idaho, October 25-27, 2006.

AgriMet websites:

Pacific Northwest Region: http://www.usbr.gov/pn/agrimet
Great Plains Region: http://www.usbr.gov/gp/agrimet/index.cfm

US FOREST SERVICE (Fujioka)

Chen, S.-C.; Preisler, H.; Benoit, J.; Fujioka, F. 2006. Projecting wildland fire severity using RSM simulations with a probability model. In: Proceedings, Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, 2006 October 18-20, Taipei, Taiwan.

Preisler, H.K.; Westerling, A.L. 2007. Statistical model for forecasting monthly large wildfire events in Western United States. J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology 46:1020-1030.

Roads, J.; Tripp, P.; Juang, H.; Wang, J.; Chen, S.; Fujioka, F. 2007. ECPC/NCEP March 2007 seasonal fire danger forecasts. Experimental long-lead forecasts bulletin 16:1-7.

Weise, D.R.; Fujioka, F.M.; Nelson, Jr., R.M. 2005. A comparison of three models of 1-h time lag fuel moisture in Hawaii. Ag. and For. Meteorol. 133:28-39.

Yang, Y.; Chen, Y.-L.; Fujioka, F.M. 2005. Numerical simulations of the island-induced circulations over the island of Hawaii during HaRP. Mon. Wea. Rev. 133:3693-3713.

UTAH CLIMATE OFFICE

Malek, E., Davis. T., Martin, R.S., and Silva, P.J. 2006. Meteorological and environmental aspects of one of the worst national air pollution episodes (January, 2004) in Logan, Cache Valley, Utah, U.S.A. Atmos. Research. 79: 108-122.

WESTERN REGION CLIMATE CENTER

Kunkel, K.E., K.G. Hubbard, D. Easterling, D. Robinson, and K.T. Redmond (in press). Issues with identification of trends in 20th Century U.S. snowfall. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. Expected 2007.

Redmond, K.T., (in revision, 2006). Historic climate variability in the Mojave Desert. In The Mojave Desert: Ecosystem Processes and Sustainability, eds. R.H. Webb, L.F. Fenstermaker, J.S. Heaton, D.L. Hughson, E.V. McDonald, and D.M. Miller, (submitted Dec 2005 to University of Arizona Press).

Redmond, K.T. (In press). Climate variability and change as a backdrop for western resource management. Revision submitted June 2005. USDA Pacific Northwest Research Station, Bringing Climate into Natural Resource Management, Conference, May 28-30, 2005, Portland Oregon.

Redmond, K.T. (In press). Evaporation and the Hydrologic Budget of Crater Lake, Oregon. Hydrobiologia, final version submitted September 2006, expected 2007.

WYOMING WATER RESOURCES DATA SYSTEM & WYOMING STATE CLIMATE OFFICE

Gray, S.T., L.J. Graumlich, and J.L. Betancourt. 2007. Annual precipitation in the Yellowstone National Park Region since A.D. 1173. Quaternary Research, 68:18-27.

McCabe, G.J., J.L. Betancourt, S.T. Gray, M.A. Palecki, H.G. Hidalgo. 2007. Associations of multi-decadal sea-surface temperature variability with US drought. Quaternary International, in press.

01/21/2009

AgACIS has been launched through the NRCS DataMart for USDA internal use. This is part of the ACIS (http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/current.html), xmACIS (http://www.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=ilx) (NWS NOWData) backbone. It is expected that these climate resources will be part of the NIDIS (http://www.westgov.org/wga/publicat/nidis.pdf) portal.

VIPER (New water supply forecasting tool) summarized at: (ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/downloads/centennial/article3220060925.pdf)

New Weather Generated Technology(http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/climate/gem.html) dataset and model (coding) has been released: ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/downloads/climate/gem/GEM_6_States

Adjusted wind data has been released: ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/support/climate/wind_daily
that contains the follow datasets: ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/support/climate/wind_daily/readme_first.txt - weekly snowpack and drought monitor updates (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/water/drought/wdr.pl); soil narrative climatology: (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/soil-nar.pl); Climate Conservation datasets by county (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/climate/climate-map.html) and as described at: (http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/climate/wets_doc.html)

Chen, S.-C.; Preisler, H.; Fujioka, F.; Benoit, J.; Roads, J. 2008. Seasonal prediction for wildland fire severity. Third International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: Common Problems and Approaches. April 29-May 2, 2008, Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Coen, J.L.; Fujioka, F.M.; Jones, C.; Riggan, P.J. 2007. The Esperanza Fire: comparison of coupled atmosphere-fire model simulation and FireMapper thermal imaging data. In: Proceedings, Seventh Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, 2007 October 23-25, Bar Harbor, Maine.
http://ams.confex.com/ams/7firenortheast/techprogram/paper_127443.htm

Esteban, M.A.; Chen, Y.-L. 2008. The impact of trade wind strength on precipitation over the windward side of the island of Hawaii. Monthly Weather Review 136: 913-928.

Lii, K.S.; Chen, S; Huang, S.; Fujioka, F.M.. 2007. Spatial/temporal characteristics of air quality prediction errors in the Bluesky modeling framework. In: Proceedings, Seventh Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, 2007 October 23-25, Bar Harbor, Maine. http://ams.confex.com/ams/7firenortheast/techprogram/paper_127384.htm

Preisler H.; Chen, S.-C.;.Benoit, J.; Fujioka, F.;.Westerling, A. 2008: Wildland fire probabilities estimated from weather model-deduced monthly mean fire danger indices. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17: 305-316

Roads, J.; Tripp, P.; Juang, H.M.H.; Wang, J.; Chen, S.; Fujioka, F. 2007. Fire danger applications of NCEP's downscaled CFS forecasts. In: Proceedings, Seventh Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, 2007 October 23-25, Bar Harbor, Maine.
http://ams.confex.com/ams/7firenortheast/techprogram/paper_124515.htm

Weise, D.R.; Chen, S.C.; Riggan, P.J.; Jones, C.; Butler, B.W.; Fujioka, F.M. 2007. Using high-resolution weather data to predict fire spread using the FARSITE simulator--a case study in Calilfornia chaparral. In: Proceedings, Seventh Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, 2007 October 23-25, Bar Harbor, Maine. http://ams.confex.com/ams/7firenortheast/techprogram/paper_126873.htm

Yang, Y.; Chen, Y.-L. 2008. Effects of terrain heights and sizes on island-scale circulations and rainfall for the island of Hawaii. Monthly Weather Review 136: 120-146.

McCabe, G.J., J.L. Betancourt, S.T. Gray, M.A. Palecki, H.G. Hidalgo. 2008. Associations of multi-decadal sea-surface temperature variability with US drought. Quaternary International, 188:31-40.

J. C. Kallestad, J. G. Mexal, T. W. Sammis and R. Heerema. 2008. Development of a Simple Irrigation Scheduling Calendar for Mesilla Valley Pecan Growers HortTechnology 18(4) 714-725.

Juming Wang, Ted W. Sammis, and D. R. Miller. 2008. Eddy covariance measurements of crop water uses: the energy closure problem and potential solutions. In. Agricultural Water Management Research Trends Nova Science Publishers Inc , NY. Pages 1-7

Holmén, B., D. Miller, A. Hiscox, W. Yang, J. Wang, T. Sammis and R.Bottoms. 2007. Near-source particulate emissions and plume dynamics from agricultural field operations. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry. 59 (2):117-134.

Wang, Junming, April L. Hiscox, David. R. Miller, and Ted W. Sammis. 2008.A Dynamic Lagrangian, Field-Scale Model of Dust Dispersion from Agriculture Tilling Operations. ASABE Transaction. Transactions of the ASABE 51(5) 1763-1774.

Moller, Alan and Gillies, Robert. 2008. Utah Climate  2nd Edition, Utah State University Publication Design and Production

12/17/2009

Kennedy, A. M., D. C. Garen, and R. W. Koch (2009). The association between climate teleconnection indices and Upper Klamath seasonal streamflow: Trans-Niño Index. Hydrological Processes, 23, 973-984.

Pagano, T. C., D. C. Garen, T. R. Perkins, and P. A. Pasteris (2009). Daily updating of operational statistical seasonal water supply forecasts for the western U.S. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 45(3), 767-778.

Perkins, T. R., T. C. Pagano, and D. C. Garen (2009). Innovative operational seasonal water supply forecasting technologies. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 64(1), 15A-17A.

Data Quality Control and Assurance Procedures for Reclamations AgriMet Weather Station Network. April, 2009, published in the proceedings of the Western Snow Conference, 2009.

AgriMet: Reclamations Pacific Northwest Evapotranspiration Network, Manuscript submitted and accepted for presentation and publication at the Irrigation Association 2009 Irrigation Show and conference proceedings.

Dolling, K., Chu, P.-S., and Fujioka, F. 2009: Natural variability of the Keetch-Byram Drought Index in the Hawaiian Islands. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 18:459-475.

Fujioka, F.M.; Gill, A.M.; Viegas, D.X.; Wotton, B.M. 2009: Fire danger and fire behavior modeling systems in Australia, Europe, and North America. Wildland Fires and Air Pollution, A. Bytnerowicz (ed.). Developments in environmental science, 8. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 469-497.

Yang, Y., Chen, Y.-L., and Fujioka, F.M., 2008: Effects of trade-wind strength and direction on the leeside circulations and rainfall of the island of Hawaii. Monthly Weather Review, 136:4799-4818.

Fujioka, F, 2008: Fire weather technology for fire agrometeorology operations. Proc., Management of natural and environmental resources for sustainable agricultural development, R. Stefanski and P. Pasteris (eds.), February 13-16, 2006, Portland, OR. World Meteorological Organization, WMO/TD No. 1428, Washington, D.C., 193-202.

De Melo-Abreu, J.P, Ahmed, D.M., Andrews, P.L., Bastos, T.X., DeGroot, W.J., Fleming, Richard, Fleming, Robert, Fujioka, F., Goldammer, J.G., Govind, A., Harrison, J., Keenan, T., Price, D., Statheropoulos, M., Stigter, K.,. and Wain, A., 2008: Applications of meteorology to forestry and non-forest trees. www.agrometeorology.org/fileadmin/insam/repository/gamp_chapt8.pdf, WMO/CAgM Guide to Agricultural Meteorology Practices, Chapter 8, 107 p.

Frakes, B., I. Aston, J. Burke, M. Britten, D. Pillmore, S. Ostermann-Kelm, R. Daly, C. Jean, M. Tercek, S. Gray, and T. Kittel. 2010. Rocky Moutain Climate Protocol: Climate Monitoring in the Greater Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain Inventory and Monitoring Networks. Natural Resource Report NPS/XXXX/NRR2010/XXX, National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado, In press.

Cleary, K., S.T. Gray and others. 2009. Assessment of Groundwater Resources in the Green River Basin, Wyoming. Wyoming Water Development Commission, Cheyenne, Wyoming. In Press.

Gray, S., C. Andersen, I. Burke. 2009. Assessing the Future of Wyomings Water Resources: Adding Climate Change to the Equation. William D. Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. 28 pp. In press.

Kittel, T., S. Ostermann-Kelm, B. Frakes, M. Tercek, S. Gray, and C. Daly. 2009. A Framework for Climate Analysis and Reporting for the Greater Yellowstone (GRYN) and Rocky Mountain (ROMN) Networks: A Report from the GRYN/ROMN Climate Data Analysis Workshop. Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/GRYN/NRR2009/XXX. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. In press.

Gray, S.T., C.M. Nicholson, and M.D. Ogden. 2009. Greater Yellowstone Network: Climate of 2008. Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/GRYN/NRR2009/XXX. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. In press.

Gray, S.T., C.M. Nicholson, T. Dietrich, and S. Laursen. 2009. Greater Yellowstone Network: Climate of 2007. Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/GRYN/NRR2009/076. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Aziz, O.A., G.A. Tootle, S.T. Gray and T.C. Piechota. 2010. Identification of Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature influences on Colorado River Basin snowpack. Water Resources Research, In press.

Barnett, F.A., T.A. Watson, G.A. Tootle and S.T. Gray. 2010. Upper Green River Basin (USA) streamflow reconstructions. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, In press.

Gray, S.T. and G.J. McCabe. 2009. Combined water balance and tree-ring approaches to understanding the potential hydrologic effects of climate change on the Yellowstone River. Water Resources Research, In press.

Jackson, S.T., J.L. Betancourt, R.K. Booth and S.T. Gray. 2009. Ecology and the ratchet of events: Climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.0901644106.

Jackson, S.T., S.T. Gray and B. Shuman. 2009. Paleoecology and resource management in a dynamic landscape: Case studies from the Rocky Mountain headwaters. The Paleontological Society Papers, 15:61-80.

Kelleners, T., V.B. Paige, S.T. Gray. 2009. Measurement of the dielectric properties of Wyoming soils using electromagnetic sensors. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 73:1626-1637, doi:10.2136/sssaj2008.0361.

Watson, T.A., F.A. Barnett, S.T. Gray and G.A. Tootle. 2009. Reconstructed stream flows for the headwaters of the Wind River, Wyoming, USA. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 45:224-236.

Wang, J., T. W. Sammis, V. P. Gutschick, M. Gebremichael, D. R. Miller. 2009. Sensitivity Analysis of the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL). ASABE Transactions. 52 (3):801-811.

Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, J. Jin, and L. E. Hipps, Recent rainfall cycle in the Intermountain Region as a quadrature amplitude modulation from the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol:36

Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, E. S. Takle, and W. J. Gutowski Jr.,, Evaluation of precipitation in the Intermountain Region simulated by the NARCCAP regional climate models, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol:36

Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, L. E. Hipps, and J. Jin, A transition-phase teleconnection of the Pacific quasi-decadal oscillation, Climate Dynamics, in press

Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, J. Jin, and L. E. Hipps, Coherence between the Great Salt Lake Level and the Pacific quasi-decadal oscillation, Journal of Climate, in press

Wang, S.-Y., L. E. Hipps, R. R. Gillies, X. Jiang, and A. L. Moller, Circumglobal teleconnection and early summer rainfall in the US Intermountain West, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, in press

Gillies, R. R. Estimated changes in the winter precipitation regime over Utah (August 24, 2009), Melbourne, Australia, 6th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle

Gillies, R. R. Linked Micromap Plots for Evaluating Trends in Multi-Pollutant Deposition (October 06, 2009), Saratoga Springs, NY, NADP 2009 Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium

Gillies, R. R. Evaluation of precipitation in the Intermountain Region simulated by the NARCCAP regional climate models (August 24, 2009), Melbourne, Australia, 6th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle

Gillies, R. R. Evaluation of precipitation in the Intermountain Region simulated by the NARCCAP regional climate models (March 03, 2009), Logan, Utah, Spring Runoff Conference

Gillies, R. R. Recent rainfall cycle in the Intermountain Region as a quadrature amplitude modulation from the Pacific decadal oscillation (March 03, 2009), Logan, Utah, Spring Runoff Conference

Gillies, R. R. The Pacific QDO as a natural predictor for the Great Salt Lake elevation. (November 23, 2009), Silver Springs, MD, Conference

Gillies, R. R. The mysterious coherence between the Great Salt Lake and the Pacific quasi-decadal oscillation. (October 26, 2009), , Monterey, CA, NOAA's 34th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop

Gillies, R. R. Coherence between the Great Salt Lake and the Pacific quasi-decadal oscillation. (October 09, 2009), Boulder, CO, 64th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Hydrologic Research Center, Boulder