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Member Since 1974
Dennis P Lettenmaier P. Lettenmaier
Professor, University of California Los Angeles
Professional Experience
University of California Los Angeles
Professor
Education
Other
1975
University of Washington Seattle
Doctorate
1975
Honors & Awards
Robert E. Horton Medal
Received 2018
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Walter Langbein Lecture
Received 2013
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Peter S. Eagleson Award
Received 2000
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Publications
Snowmelt‐Radiation Feedback Impact on Western U.S. Streamflow

Ongoing runoff declines in the Colorado River Basin have been shown to be predominately driven by decreasing albedo from warming‐driven snow&...

December 07, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Decelerating Runoff Response to Warming with Declining Snowpacks in the Montane Western U.S.
APPLICATIONS IN SNOW HYDROLOGY: LINKING SNOWPACK AND STREAMFLOW ACROSS SCALES II ORAL
hydrology | 15 december 2023
Zhaoxin Ban, Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Snow loss under climate warming has been a prominent hydrologic signature across the Western United States (WUS) in recent decades, posing a threat to...
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Changes in hydrometeorology in the headwaters of the Yellow River Basin
THE THIRD POLE ENVIRONMENT (TPE) UNDER GLOBAL CHANGES I POSTER
global environmental change | 14 december 2023
Shiqin Xu, Zhongbo Yu, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Tim ...
Our study domain is the headwaters of the Yellow River Basin (HYRB) (around 122 000 km2) which is in the north-east of the Tibetan Plateau, and experi...
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Do trends in global precipitation confirm acceleration of the global hydrological cycle?
THE GLOBAL WATER CYCLE: COUPLING AND EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE OCEAN, LAND, CRYOSPHERE, AND ATMOSPHERE I POSTER
global environmental change | 14 december 2023
Xiaoyu Ma, Dennis P. Lettenmaier
We investigate the hypothesis of acceleration in the global hydrological cycle by analyzing global gauge, satellite, reanalysis and gridded precipitat...
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Volunteer Experience
2013 - 2016
Member
Bowie Medal Committee
2013 - 2014
Immediate Past President
Hydrology Executive Committee
2013 - 2014
Standing Committee Chair
Hydrology Executive Committee
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