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 European Geosciences Union, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 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, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member of the International Water Academy. He is an author or co-author of over 200 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. He is the President-elect of the Hydrology Section of the American Geophysical Union. 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
Alcamo, J.M., C.J. Vorosmarty, R.J. Naiman, D.P. Lettenmaier, and C. Pahl-Wostl, 2008: A grand challenge for freshwater research: Understanding the global water system, Environ. Res. Lett 3, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/1/010202
Milly, P. C. D., J. Betancourt, M. Falkenmark, R.M. Hirsch, Z.W. Kundzewicz, D.P. Lettenmaier, and R.J. Stouffer, 2008: Stationarity is dead: Whither water management, Science 319, 573-574.
Saurral, R.I., V.R. Barros, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2008: Land use impact on the Uruguay River discharge, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L12401, doi:10.1029/2008GL033707.
Voisin, N., A.W. Wood and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2008: Evaluation of precipitation products for global hydrological prediction. J. of Hydrometeorology, 9 (3), 388-407.
Adam, J.C., I. Haddeland, F. Su, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2007: Simulation of reservoir influences on annual and seasonal streamflow changes for the Lena, Yenisei and Ob' Rivers, J. Geophys. Res. 112, D24114, doi:10.1029/2007JD008525
Andreadis, K. M., E. A. Clark, D. P. Lettenmaier, and D. E. Alsdorf, 2007: Prospects for river discharge and depth estimation through assimilation of swath-altimetry into a raster-based hydrodynamics model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L10403, doi:10.1029/2007GL029721.
Bohn, T.J., D.P. Lettenmaier, K. Sathulur, L.C. Bowling, E. Podest, K.C. McDonald, and T. Friborg, 2007: Methane emissions from western Siberian wetlands: heterogeneity and sensitivity to climate change, Environ. Res. Lett., 2, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/2/4/045015
Christensen N. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2007: A multimodel ensemble approach to assessment of climate change impacts on the hydrology and water resources of the Colorado River basin, Hydrol. Earth System Sci., 11, 1417-1434.
Haddeland, I., T. Skaugen, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2007: Hydrologic effects of land and water management in North America and Asia: 1700-1992, Hydrol.Earth Sys. Sci., 11(2), 1035-1045
Hamlet A.F., Lettenmaier D.P., 2007: Effects of 20th Century Warming and Climate Variability on Flood Risk in the Western U.S., Water Resour. Res., 43, W06427, doi:10.1029/2006WR005099
Zhu C.M., Cavazos T. and Lettenmaier D.P., 2007: Role of Antecedent Land Surface Conditions in Warm Season Precipitation over Northwestern Mexico, Journal of Climate, 20, 1774-1791.
Adam, J.C., E.A. Clark, D.P. Lettenmaier, and E.F. Wood, 2006: Correction of Global Precipitation Products for Orographic Effects, J. Clim., 19(1), 15-38.
Andreadis, K.M. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2006: Trends in 20th century drought over the continental United States, Geophys. Res. Lett. , 33, L10403, doi:10.1029/2006GL025711
Doten, C.O., L.C. Bowling, E.P. Maurer, J.S. Lanini, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2006: A spatially distributed model for the dynamic prediction of sediment erosion and transport in mountainous forested watersheds, Water Resour. Res., Vol. 42, No. 4, W0441710.1029/2004WR003829
Haddeland, I., D.P. Lettenmaier, and T. Skaugen, 2006: Effects of irrigation on the water and energy balances of the Colorado and Mekong River basins, J. Hydrol., 324(1-4), 210-223
Haddeland, I., T. Skaugen, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2006: Anthropogenic impacts on continental surface water fluxes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L08406, doi:10.1029/2006GL026047
Mcguire M., Wood A.W., Hamlet A.F., Lettenmaier D.P., 2006: Use of satellite data for streamflow and reservoir storage forecasts in the Snake River Basin, ID, J. Water Res. Planning and Mgt, ASCE, 132, 97-110.
Voisin, N., A. F. Hamlet, L. P. Graham, D. W. Pierce, T. P. Barnett, and D. P. Lettenmaier, 2006: The role of climate forecasts in western U.S. power planning, Journal of Applied Meteorology 45(5), 653-673.
Wood, A.W. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2006: A testbed for new seasonal hydrologic forecasting approaches in the western U.S., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87(12), 1699-1712, doi:10.1175/BAMS-87-12-1699.
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., P.W. Mote, M.P. Clark, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 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, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005: Detection time for plausible changes in annual precipitation, evapotranspiration, and streamflow in three Mississippi river sub-basin, Climatic Change, 72, 17-36.
Zhu C.M., D.P. Lettenmaier, and T. Cavazos, 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., A.F. Hamlet, M.P. Clark, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005: Declining mountain snowpack in western North America, BAMS 86, 39-49
Hamlet A.F., and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2005: Production of temporally consistent gridded precipitation and temperature fields for the continental U.S., J. of Hydrometeorology 6, 330-336.