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Roger G. Barry

Ph.D., University of Southampton, 1965
Distinguished Professor of Geography
Director, World Data Center for Glaciology (Boulder)
Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center [ About NSIDC ]

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

Roger G. Barry, Ph.D., University of Southampton,U.K., 1965, is Professor of Geography and Director, World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder/National Snow & Ice Data Center, rostered in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). WDC/NSIDC has 75 staff who manage and distribute snow and ice data and information (see http://nsidc.org/). Roger was appointed Distinguished Professor of Geography by the Board of Regents of the University of Colorado in March 2004. In June 2007, he was awarded the Founder's Medal—one of two gold medals awarded annually—by the Royal Geographical Society, London. In October 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was named to receive the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, along with former Vice President Al Gore. Barry was a review editor for two chapters in the most recent IPCC report, Climate Change 2007. In Volume 1, The Physical Science Basis, he reviewed "The cryosphere" and in Volume 2, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability he reviewed "The Polar Regions".

His major interests are in Arctic climate, cryosphere - climate interactions, mountain climate and climatic change. His work is supported by NASA, NSF and NOAA. Roger is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He serves as co-Vice Chair of the Scientific Steering Group for the World Climate Research Programme's project on Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) and is a member of the Terrestrial Observations Panel for Climate (TOPC). He also serves on the editorial boards of Physical Geography and Polar Geography.

Roger is fluent in French, German and Russian. He was a Fulbright Teaching Scholar at Moscow State University, Russia in spring 2000 and has held visiting appointments at ETH, Zurich, the Alfred Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research, Bremerhaven, the Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia, U.K., the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, the Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and the Department of Biogeography and Geomorphology, Australian National University, Canberra.

Selected Publications

• 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
• S Gearheard, Matumeak, W., Angutikjuak, I., Maslanik, J. Huntington, H.P.,Leavitt, J., Kagak, D.M., Tigullarak, G. and Barry, R.G., 2006: "It's not that simple": A collaborative comparison of sea ice environments, their uses, observed changes, and adaptations in Barrow, Alaska, USA, and Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada. Ambio: Vol. 35, 204-12
• Barry, R.G. 2005. Alpine climate change and cryospheric responses: An introduction. In de Jong, C., Collins, D. and Ranzi, R. (eds.) Climate and Hydrology in Mountain Areas. Wiley, London, pp. 1-4.
• Barry, R G., 2005: Synoptic climatology. World Encyclopedia of Climatology, J.E. Oliver, Springer, Dordrecht, NL., 700-4
• Serreze, M.C. and R.G. Barry, 2005: The Arctic Climate System. , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 385 pp.
• Zhang, TJ; Frauenfeld, OW; Serreze, MC; Etringer, A; Oelke, C; McCreight, J; Barry, RG; Gilichinsky, D; Yang, DQ; Ye, HC; Ling, F; Chudinova, S, 2005: Spatial and temporal variability in active layer thickness over the Russian Arctic drainage basin. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos.: Vol. 110
• Frauenfeld, OW; Zhang, TJ; Barry, RG; Gilichinsky, D, 2004: Interdecadal changes in seasonal freeze and thaw depths in Russia. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos.: Vol. 109
• Khalsa, SJS; Dyurgerov, MB; Khromova, T; Raup, BH; Barry, RG, 2004: Space-based mapping of glacier changes using ASTER and GIS tools. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing: Vol. 42, 2177-2183
• Barry, R.G. 2004. Climate: Research programs. In M. Nuttall (ed) "Encylopedia of the Arctic" Vol. 1, Routledge, New York.pp. 379-83.
• Bishop, M., Barry, R.G. and 15 others. 2004. Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS): Remote sensing and GIS investigations of the Earth's cryosphere. Geocarto International 19:57-84.
• Solomina, O; Barry, R; Bodnya, M, 2004: The retreat of tien shan glaciers (Kyrgyzstan) since the Little Ice Age estimated from aerial photographs, lichenometric and historical data. Geogr. Ann. Ser. A-Phys. Geogr.: Vol. 86A, 205-215
• Tsukernik, M; Chase, TN; Serreze, MC; Barry, RG; Pielke, R; Herman, B; Zeng, X, 2004: On the regulation of minimum mid-tropospheric temperatures in the Arctic. Geophys. Res. Lett.: Vol. 31
• Zhang, T., R. G. Barry, and R. L. Armstrong, 2004: Application of satellite remote sensing techniques to frozen ground studies. Polar Geogr.: Vol. 28(3), 163-196
• Atmosphere, Weather and Climate, 8th edn. 2003. R.G. Barry and R.J. Chorley. Routledge, London. 421 pp.
• Barry, RG, 2003: Mountain cryospheric studies and the WCRP climate and cryosphere (CliC) project. J. Hydrol.: Vol. 282, 177-181
• Chudinova, S., S. Bykhovets, V. Sorokovikov, R. Barry, T. Zhang, and D. Gilichinsky, 2003: Peculiarities in Soil Warming versus Recent Climate Warming in Russia. Earth Cryoshere (Krioshera Zemli) (in Russian): Vol. VII((3), 23-31
• Chudinova, S., S. Bykhovets, V. Sorokovikov, T. Zhang, R. Barry, and D. Gilichinsky, 2003: Regional Ground Response to Recent Air Warming in Russia. Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on “Earth Cryosphere as a Habitat and an Object for Nature Management": Vol. 1, 24-25
• Khromova, TE; Dyurgerov, MB; Barry, RG, 2003: Late-twentieth century changes in glacier extent in the Ak-shirak Range, Central Asia, determined from historical data and ASTER imagery. Geophys. Res. Lett.: Vol. 30
• Parsons, Mark A., Tingjun Zhang, Roger G. Barry, and Jerry Brown, 2003: Advances in the IPA Global Geocryological Data (GGD) system. 8th International Conference on Permafrost, July, 2003: Vol. Extended, 123-124
• Serreze, MC; Maslanik, JA; Scambos, TA; Fetterer, F; Stroeve, J; Knowles, K; Fowler, C; Drobot, S; Barry, RG; Haran, TM, 2003: A record minimum arctic sea ice extent and area in 2002. Geophys. Res. Lett.: Vol. 30
• Zhang, T., R. G. Barry, K. Knowles, F. Ling, R. L. Armstrong, 2003: Distribution of seasonally and perennially frozen ground in the Northern Hemisphere. Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Permafrost: Vol. 2, 1289-1294
• Zhang, T; Scambos, T; Haran, T; Hinzman, LD; Barry, RG; Kane, DL, 2003: Ground-based and satellite-derived measurements of surface albedo on the North slope of Alaska. J. Hydrometeorol.: Vol. 4, 77-91
• Barry, R.G. 2002. The Role of Snow and Ice in the Global Climate System: A Review. Polar Geography 24(3) pp. 235-246.
• Sokratov, SA; Barry, RG, 2002: Intraseasonal variation in the thermoinsulation effect of snow cover on soil temperatures and energy balance. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos.: Vol. 107
• Barry, R.G. and Carleton, A.M. 2001 Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology, Routledge, London, 620 pp.
• Barry, RG; Seimon, S., 2001: Research for mountain area development: Climatic fluctations in the mountains of the Americas and their significance (vol 29, pg 367, 2000). AMBIO: Vol. 30(1), 69-69
• Zhang, T; Barry, RG; Gilichinsky, D; Bykhovets, SS; Sorokovikov, VA; Ye, JP, 2001: An amplified signal of climatic change in soil temperatures during the last century at Irkutsk, Russia. Clim. Change: Vol. 49, 41-76
• Barry, R; Seimon, A, 2000: Research for mountain area development: Climatic fluctuations in the mountains of the Americas and their significance. Ambio: Vol. 29, 364-370
• Barry, R.G. and Serreze, M.C. 2000. Atmospheric components of the Arctic Ocean freshwater balance and their interannual variability. In E.L. Lewis et al. (eds.) "The Freshwater Budget of the Arctic Ocean". Kluwer, pp. 45-56.
• Haeberli, W; Cihlar, J; Barry, RG, 2000: Glacier monitoring within the Global Climate Observing System. ANN GLACIOL: Vol. 31, 241-246
• Magnuson, JJ; Robertson, DM; Benson, BJ; Wynne, RH; Livingstone, DM; Arai, T; Assel, RA; Barry, RG; Card, V; Kuusisto, E; Granin, NG; Prowse, TD; Stewart, KM; Vuglinski, VS., 2000: Historical trends in lake and river ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere. SCIENCE: Vol. 289(5485), 1743-1746
• Serreze, MC; Walsh, JE; Chapin, FS; Osterkamp, T; Dyurgerov, M; Romanovsky, V; Oechel, WC; Morison, J; Zhang, T; Barry, RG, 2000: Observational evidence of recent change in the northern high-latitude environment. Clim. Change: Vol. 46, 159-207

Barry is also one of the CIRES Faculty who teach at the University of Colorado at Boulder with teaching loads equivalent to those of CU faculty rostered solely in departments and programs.