CIRES Council of Fellows>

Roger G. Barry

Ph.D., University of Southampton, 1965
Distinguished Professor of Geography
Director, World Data Center for Glaciology (Boulder)

E-mail: rbarry@nsidc.colorado.edu
Office: RL-2 203
Phone: 303-492-5488
Web: http://nsidc.org/research/bios/barry.html, http://rogerbarry.info

Research

Barry received a Humboldt Research Fellowship to work at the Commission for Glaciology at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich from May through November 2009. He expects to write a new book on the cryosphere during this time.

Current Research

Working on IPY data management efforts; Preparing the 9th edition of Atmosphere, Weather and Climate; Studying changes in freeze/thaw cycle, permafrost dynamics, and hydrology in the Russian Arctic; Researching twentieth century sea ice in Eurasian Arctic from Russian and modern data sources.

Selected Publications

Mahoney, A.R., Barry, R.G., Smolyanitsky, V. and Fetterer, F. 2008. Observed sea ice extent in the Russian Arctic, 1933-2006. J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans)113: C11005, doi:10.1029/2008JC004830, 11 pp.

Beedle, M.J., Dyurgerov,M. Tangborn,W., Khalsa, J.S.J., Helm, C., Raup,B., Armstrong,R. and Barry, R.G. 2008. Improving estimation of glacier volume change: a GLIMS case study of Bering Glacier System, Alaska. The Cryosphere 2, 30-51.

Racoviteanu, A., Williams,, M.W. and Barry, R.G. 2008. Optical remote sensing of glacier characteristics: a review with focus on the Himalaya. Sensors 8: 3355-3383.

Zhang, T., Barry, R. G., Knowles, K., Heginbottom, J.A. and Brown, J. 2008. Statistics and characteristics of permafrost and ground-ice distribution in the Northern Hemisphere. Polar Geography 31; 47-68. [Citation classics- reflecting the highlights of Polar Geography in the International Year of Planet Earth]. (Originally published in Polar Geography 1999, 23:132-54).

Barry, R.G. 2008. 'Mountain weather and climate', 3rd edn., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 506 pp.

Barry, R.G. (Lead Author), R. Armstrong, T Callaghan, J Cherry, S Gearheard, A Nolin, D. Russell and C. Zaeckler. 2007. Snow, Chapter 4, Global Outlook for Ice and Snow, Earthprint, UNEP, Paris. pp.39-62.

Maslanik, J., S. Drobot, C. Fowler, W. Emery, and R. Barry (2007), On the Arctic climate paradox and the continuing role of atmospheric circulation in affecting sea ice conditions, Geophys. Res Lett., 34, L03711, doi:10.1029/2006GL028269.

Barry, RG, 2006: The status of research on glaciers and global glacier recession: a review. Prog. Phys. Geogr.: Vol. 30, 285-306.

Chudinova, SM; Frauenfeld, OW; Barry, RG; Zhang, TJ; Sorokovikov, VA, 2006: Relationship between air and soil temperature trends and periodicities in the permafrost regions of Russia. J. Geophys. Res.-Earth Surf.: Vol. 111.

Khromova, TE; Osipova, GB; Tsvetkov, DG; Dyurgerov, MB; Barry, RG, 2006: Changes in glacier extent in the eastern Pamir, Central Asia, determined from historical data and ASTER imagery. Remote Sens. Environ.: Vol. 102, 24-32.

Honors and Awards

• Founder's Medal—one of two gold medals awarded annually—by the Royal Geographical Society, London (2007)
• Distinguished Professor of Geography, University of Colorado (2004)
• Review Editor and Contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – which received the Nobel Peace Prize (2007)

Professor Barry is a CIRES Teaching Faculty.