Andrew Barrett

Research Scientist

Specialties [top]

Arctic and mountain hydrology; glacier hydrology; hydrological modeling; western United States water resources

Recent Highlights and Upcoming Expeditions [top]

• Spring 2007: Barrett conducted fieldwork in the San Juan Mountain, Colorado, to investigate role of dust on snow on snowmelt and hydrology.

Current Research [top]

• Assessment of Arctic water and energy budgets
• Impact of dust on snow on river runoff
• Development of subglacial drainage systems

Current Projects [top]

Radiative Effects of Desert Dust Deposits in Alpine Snow: Hydrologic Aspects

Collaborative Research: A Heat Budget Analysis of the Arctic Climate System

Activities [top]

International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)

International Glaciological Society (IGS)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

British Hydrological Society

Publications [top]

2009

Serreze, M. C., A. P. Barrett, J. C. Stroeve, D. N. Kindig, and M. M. Holland. 2009. The emergence of surface-based Arctic amplification. The Cryosphere 3: 11–19.

Slater, A. G., M. P. Clark, A. P. Barrett. 2009. Comment on "Estimating the distribution of snow water equivalent using remotely sensed snow cover data and a spatially distributed snowmelt model: A multi-resolution, multi-sensor comparison" by Noah P. Molotch and Steven A. Margulis, in Advanced Water Resources 31:1503-1514. Advances in Water Resources 32(11): 1680-1684, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.09.001.

2008

Serreze, M. C., and A. P. Barrett. 2008. The summer cyclone maximum over the central Arctic Ocean. Journal of Climate 21(5): 1048-1065, doi:10.1175/2007JCLI1810.1.

Serreze, M. C., A. P. Barrett, and A. G. Slater. 2008. Chapter 13: Variability and change in the atmospheric branch of the Arctic hydrologic cycle. In Arctic-subarctic ocean fluxes, eds. R. R. Dickson, J. Meincke, and P. Rhines. New York: Springer.

Serreze, M. C., A. P. Barrett, J. C. Stroeve, D. N. Kindig, and M. M. Holland. 2008. The emergence of surface-based Arctic amplification. The Cryosphere Discussions 2: 601-622.

2007

Holland, M. M., J. Finnis, A. P. Barrett, and M. C. Serreze. 2007. Projected changes in Arctic Ocean freshwater budgets. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, G04S55, doi:10.1029/2006JG000354.

Painter, T. H., A. P. Barrett, C. Landry, J. Neff, M. P. Cassidy, C. Lawrence, K. E. McBride, and G. L. Farmer. 2007. Impact of disturbed desert soils on duration of mountain snow cover. Geophysical Research Letters 34(12), L12502, doi:10.1029/2007GL030284.

Serreze, M. C., A. P. Barrett, A. G. Slater, M. Steele, J. Zhang, and K. E. Trenberth. 2007. The large-scale energy budget of the Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, D11122, doi: 10.1029/2006JD008230.

2006

Clark, M. P., A. G. Slater, A. P. Barrett, L. E. Hay, G. J. McCabe, B. Rajagopalan, and G. H. Leavesley. 2006. Assimilation of snow covered area information into hydrologic and land-surface models. Advances in Water Resources 29(8): 1209-1221, doi:doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.10.001.

Serreze, M. C., A. P. Barrett, A. G. Slater, R. A. Woodgate, K. Aagaard, R. B. Lammers, M. Steele, R. Moritz, M. Meredith, and C. M. Lee. 2006. The large-scale freshwater cycle of the Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research 111, doi:10.1029/2005JC003424.

2005

Serreze, M. C., A. P. Barrett, and F. Lo. 2005. Northern high latitude precipitation as depicted by atmospheric reanalysis and satellite retrievals. Monthly Weather Review 133(12): 3,407-3,430, doi:10.1175/MWR3047.1.

2004

Clark, M. P., L. E. Hay, A. G. Slater, K. Werner, D. Brandon, A. Barrett, S. Gangopadhyay, and B. Rajagopalan. 2004. Ensemble streamflow forecasting in snowmelt dominate basins. GEWEX News 14(3): 5.

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Related Resources[top]

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

Western Water Assessment