Dennis P. Lettenmaier
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Professor, Hydrology University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2700 ph 206-543-2532 fx 206-616-6274 dennisl@u.washington.edu |
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Dennis Lettenmaier received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (summa cum laude) at the University of Washington in 1971, his M.S. in Civil, Mechanical, and Environmental Engineering at the George Washington University in 1973, and his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1975. He joined the University of Washington faculty in 1976. In addition to his service at the University of Washington, he spent a year as visiting scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, VA (1985-86) and was the Program Manager of NASA's Land Surface Hydrology Program at NASA Headquarters in 1997-98. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Water Resources Association, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was a recipient of ASCE's Huber Research Prize in 1990, and the American Geophysical Union’s Hydrology Section Award in 2000. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society, and is the author of over 100 journal articles. He was the first Chief Editor of the American Meteorological Society Journal of Hydrometeorology, and is currently an Associate Editor of Water Resources Research. His areas of research interest are large scale hydrology, hydrologic aspects of remote sensing, and hydrology-climate interactions.
EDUCATION
B.Sc., Summa cum laude, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 1970
M.S., Civil, Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, The George Washington University, 1972
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1975
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hydroclimatology
Surface Water Hydrology
GIS & Remote Sensing
Surface Water Hydrology Research Group
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Journal Publications
Barnett T.P., J.C. Adam, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005: Potential Impacts of a Warming Climate on Water Availability in Snow-Dominated Regions, Nature 438, 303-309.
Hamlet A.F.,Mote P.W, Clark M.P., Lettenmaier D.P., 2005: Effects of temperature and precipitation variability on snowpack trends in the western U.S., J. Climate 18 , 4545-4561.
Ziegler A.D., E.P. Maurer, J. Sheffield, B. Nijssen, E.F. Wood, D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005: Detection time for Plausible changes in annual precipitation, evapotranporation, and streamflow in three Mississippi river sub-basin, Climatic Change, 72, 17-36.
Zhu C.M., Lettenmaier D.P., Cavazos T.,2005: Role of antecedent land surface conditions on North American monsoon rainfall variability. J. Clim. 18, 3104-3121.
Su, F., J.C. Adam, L.C. Bowling, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005: Streamflow Simulations of the Terrestrial Arctic Domain , J. Geophys. Res., 110, D08112, doi:10.1029/2004JD005518.
Wood, A.W., A. Kumar and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005:A retrospective assessment of climate model-based ensemble hydrologic forecasting in the western U.S. J. Geophys. Res. 110, D04105, doi:10.1029/2004JD004508.
Mote P.W.,Hamlet A.F., Clark M.P., Lettenmaier D.P., 2005:Declining mountain snowpack in western North America, BAMS 86, 39-49
Hamlet A.F.,Lettenmaier D.P., 2005: Production of temporally consistent gridded precipitation and temperature fields for the continental U.S., J. of Hydrometeorology 6, 330-336.
Maurer, E.P. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004: Potential effects of long-lead hydrologic predictability on Missouri River main-stem reservoirs, J. Climate 17, 174-186.
Maurer E.P., D.P. Lettenmaier and N.J. Mantua, 2004: Variability and potential sources of predictability of North American runoff Water Resour. Res., 40, Art. No W09306.
Bowling, L.C., J.W. Pomeroy and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004: Parameterization of blowing snow sublimation in a macroscale hydrology model J. Hydromet. 5, 745-762, doi: 10.1175/1525-7541.
Mitchell, K E., Lohmann, D, Houser, P R., Wood, E F., Schaake, J C., Robock, A, Cosgrove, B A., Sheffield, J, Duan, Q, Luo, L, Higgins, R. W, Pinker, R. T., Tarpley, J. D., Lettenmaier, D. P., Marshall, C. H., Entin, J. K., Pan, M., Shi, W., Koren, V., Meng, J., Ramsay, B. H., Bailey, A. A., 2004: The multi-institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Utilizing multiple GCIP products and partners in a continental distributed hydrological modeling system. J. Geophys. Res., 109, Art. No. D07S9010.1029/2003JD003823.
Lettenmaier, D.P., 2004: The role of climate in water resources planning and management, pp. 247-266 in Water: Science, Policy, and Management, R. Lawford et al., editors, Water Resources Monograph No. 16, AGU Press.
Boone, A., F. Habets, J. Noilhan, E. Blyth, D. Clark, P. Dirmeyer, S. Fox, Y. Gusev, I. Haddeland, R. Koster, D. Lohmann, S. Mahanama, K. Mitchell, O. Nasanova, G.-Y. Niu, A. Pitman, J. Polcher, A.B. Shmakin, K. Tanaka, B. van den Hurk, S. Verant, D. Verseghy, P. Viterbo, and Z.-L. Yang, 2004: The Rhone-Aggregation Land Surface Scheme Intercomparison Project: An Overview, Journal of Climate 17, 187-208.
Christensen, N.S., Wood, A.W., Voisin, N., Lettenmaier, D.P. and R.N. Palmer, 2004: Effects of Climate Change on the Hydrology and Water Resources of the Colorado River Basin, Climatic Change 62, 337-363.
Nijssen, B. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004: Effect of precipitation sampling error on simulated hydrological fluxes and states: Anticipating the Global Precipitation Measurement satellites, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 109, Art. No. D02103, 0.1029/2003JD003497.
Payne, J.T., A.W. Wood, A.F. Hamlet, R.N. Palmer and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004: Mitigating the effects of climate change on the water resources of the Columbia River basin, Climatic Change 62, 233-256.
Sridhar,V., Sansone, A.L., Lamarche, J., Dubin, T. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004: Prediction of stream temperature in forested watersheds, J. Amer. Water Res. Assn., 40, 197-213.
Van Rheenen,N.T., A.W. Wood, R.N. Palmer and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004: Potential Implications of PCM Climate Change Scenarios for Sacramento - San Joaquin River Basin Hydrology and Water Resources, Climatic Change 62, 257-281.
Wood, A.W., L.R. Leung, V. Sridhar and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004: Hydrologic implications of dynamical and statistical approaches to downscaling climate model outputs, Climatic Change 62, 189-216.
Zhu,C., D.W. Pierce, T.P. Barnett, A.W. Wood, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004: Evaluation of Hydrologically Relevant PCM Climate Variables and Large-scale Variability over the Continental U.S., Climatic Change 62, 45-74.