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Richard Armstrong

Senior Research Scientist
Associate Director, Cryospheric and Polar Processes Division, CIRES
Associate Professor, Adjunct, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder

E-mail: rlax@nsidc.org
Office: RL-2, #214
Phone: 303-492-1828
Web: http://nsidc.org/research/bios/armstrong.html

Research Interests

Armstrong's research interests include: remote sensing of snow, ice, and frozen ground, snow cover and glacier mass extent as indicators of climate change, properties of avalanche snow, and data set and cryospheric product development.

Current Research Projects

Remote sensing of snow, ice, and frozen ground; Trends in snow cover and glacier mass/extent as indicators of climate change; Physical and mechanical properties of snow; Data set and cryospheric product development

Selected Publications

Fierz, C., Armstrong, R.L., Durand, Y., Etchevers, P., Greene, E., McClung, D.M., Nishimura, K., Satyawali, P.K. and Sokratov, S.A. 2009. The International Classification for Seasonal Snow on the Ground. To be published in the series of IHP Technical Documents in Hydrology by UNESCO-IHP, Paris.

Yang, D., Y. Zhao, R. Armstrong, D. Robinson, 2009. Yukon River Streamflow Response to Seasonal Snow Cover Changes. Hydrological Processes, 23:121-129.

Armstrong, R.L. and Brun E. (Eds.) 2008. Snow and Climate: Physical Processes, Surface Energy Exchange and Modelling, Cambridge University Press, 219 p.

Beedle, M.J., Dyurgerov, M., Tangborn, W., Khalsa, S.J.S., Helm, C., Raup, B., Armstrong, R.L., and Barry, R.G. 2008. Improving estimation of glacier volume change: a GLIMS case study of Bering Glacier System, Alaska. The Cryosphere, 2, 33-51.

Davis, R.E., Painter, T.H., Cline, D., Armstrong, R.L., Haran, T., McDonald, K., Forster R., and Elder K. 2007. NASA Cold Lands Processes Experiment: Spaceborne Remote Sensing, Journal of Hydrometeorology, December 2008, 1427-1433.

Armstrong, R.L. et al. 2007. UNEP Global Outlook for Ice and Snow, (primary author/contributor to chapters on mountain glaciers and seasonal snow cover) United Nations Environment Programme, USBN:978-92-807-2799-9, 235 p.