Jeffrey Deems

Research Scientist I
PhD, Colorado State University, 2007

Specialties [top]

Snow properties; snow hydrology; snow depth mapping; climate change impacts on snow and water resources; LIDAR remote sensing; avalanche formation; hydrologic modeling

Current Projects [top]

Operation IceBridge

Activities [top]

Member, American Geophysical Union

Member, American Avalanche Association

Member, Association of American Geographers

Reviewer, Annals of Glaciology

Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Reviewer, Cold Regions Science and Technology

Reviewer, Hydrological Sciences Journal

Reviewer, Journal of Geophysical Research

Publications [top]

2012

Painter, T. H., S. M. Skiles, J. S. Deems, A. C. Bryant, and C. C. Landry. 2012. Dust radiative forcing in snow of the Upper Colorado River Basin: 1. A 6 year record of energy balance, radiation, and dust concentrations. Water Resources Research 48, W07521, doi:10.1029/2012WR011985.

Skiles, S. M., T. H. Painter, J. S. Deems, A. C. Bryant, and C. C. Landry. 2012. Dust radiative forcing in snow of the Upper Colorado River Basin: 2. Interannual variability in radiative forcing and snowmelt rates. Water Resources Research 48, W07522, doi:10.1029/2012WR011986.

2010

Elsner, M. M., L. Cuo, N. Voisin, J. S. Deems, A. F. Hamlet, J. A. Vano, K. E. B. Mickelson, S.-Y. Lee, and D. P. Lettenmaier. 2010. Implications of 21st century climate change for the hydrology of Washington State. Climatic Change 102: 225-260, doi:10.1007/s10584-010-9855-0.

Lowry, C. S., J. S. Deems, S. P. Loheide II, and J. D. Lundquist. 2010. Linking snowmelt-derived fluxes and groundwater flow in a high elevation meadow system, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. Hydrological Processes 24(20): 2,821-2,833, doi: 10.1002/hyp.7714.

Painter, T. H., J. S. Deems, J. Belnap, A. F. Hamlet, C. C. Landry, B. Udall, B. 2010. Response of Colorado River runoff to dust radiative forcing in snow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(40): 17,125-17,130, doi:10.1073/pnas.0913139107.

2009

Fassnacht, S. R., J. D. Stednick, J. S. Deems, and M. V. Corrao. 2009. Metrics for assessing snow surface roughness from digital imagery. Water Resources Research 45, W00D31, doi:10.1029/2008WR006986.

2008

Deems, J. S., S. R. Fassnacht, and K. J. Elder. 2008. Interannual consistency in fractal snow depth patterns at two Colorado mountain sites. Journal of Hydrometeorology 9(5): 977-988.

2006

Deems, J. S., S. R. Fassnacht, and K. J. Elder. 2006. Fractal distribution of snow depth from LiDAR data. Journal of Hydrometeorology 7(2): 285-297.

Fassnacht, S. R., and J. S. Deems. 2006. Measurement Sampling and Scaling for Deep Montane Snow Depth Data. Hydrological Processes 20: 829-838.

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Related Resources[top]

Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

Western Water Assessment