Geog 3601 Principles of Climate Reading List, Spring 2014
Week 1: Definition of Climatology
Barry, RG. 2012. Short Communication: A brief history of the terms climate and climatology.
International Journal of Climatology, 32, DOI: 10.1002/joc.3504.
Week 2: The Solar Constant
Reid, GC. 2000. Solar variability and the Earth’s climate: Introduction and overview. Space Science
Reviews, 94, 1-11.
Week 3: The Solar Constant
Wild, M. 2009. Global dimming and brightening: A review, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114,
D00D16, DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011470
Week 4: Water Vapor
Hakkanen, J and Laitinen, PT. 2004. The many faces of water vapor. Vaisala News ,166, pp. 16-18.
DOI:http://www.vaisala.com/Vaisala%20Documents/Vaisala%20News%20Articles/VN166/VN166_The_
Many_Faces_of_Water_Vapor.pdf
Week 5: Evaporation
Shuttleworth, JW. 2007. Putting the ‘vap’ into evaporation. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 11(1),
210-244.
Week 6: Transpiration
Katul, GG et al., 2012. Evapotranspiration: A process driving mass transport and energy exchange in the
soil-plant-atmosphere-climate system. Reviews of Geophysics, 50, RG3002, DOI:10.1029/2011RG000366
Week 7: Precipitation
Rasmussen, R et al. 2012. How well are we measuring snow? Bulletin of the American Meteorological
Society, 93(6), 811-829, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00052.1.
Week 8: The Intermountain West Snowpack
Harpold, A et al. (2012), Changes in snowpack accumulation and ablation in the intermountain west,
Water Resources Research, 48, W11501, DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011949.
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Week 9: Connecting Precipitation and Evaporation
Wise, EK. 2012. Hydroclimatology of the US Intermountain West. Physical Geography, 36(4), 458-479.
DOI: 10.1177/0309133312446538
Week 10: Cloud Seeding
Bruintjes, RT. 1999. A review of cloud seeding experiments to enhance precipitation and some new
prospects. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 80(5), 805-820, DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<0805:AROCSE>2.0.CO;2
Week 11: Urban Climatology
Middel, A. et al., 2012. Daytime cooling efficiency and diurnal energy balance in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Climate Research, 53, 21-34, DOI: 10.3354/cr01103.
Week 12: Urban Climatology
Stewart, ID and Oke, TR. 2012. Local climate zones for urban temperature studies. Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society, 93(12), 1879-1900, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00019.1.
Week 13: Air Quality
Vedal, S et al., 2009. The Denver Aerosol Sources and Health (DASH) study: Overview and early findings.
Atmospheric Environment, 43(9), 1666-1673, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.12.017
Week 14: Air Quality
Jirak, IL and Cotton, WR. 2005. Effect of air pollution on precipitation along the Front Range of the Rocky
Mountains, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 45(1), 236-245.
Week 15: Climate Feedbacks
Lovelock, JE, and Margulis, L. 1973. Atmospheric homeostasis by and for the biosphere: the gaia
hypothesis. Tellus, 26(1-2), 2-10.
Week 16: Paleoclimate
Anderson, L. 2012. Rocky Mountain hydroclimate: Holocene variability and the role of insolation, ENSO,
and the North American Monsoon. Global and Planetary Change, 92-93 (2012), 198-208, DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.05.012
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