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Overview

Glen E. Liston is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. The scientist's research predominantly spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these fields, they have focused extensively on Atmospheric Science, with additional work in Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Liston's primary research topics include climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, marine animal studies overview, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Frequent co-authors of Glen E. Liston include Adele K. Reinking, Julienne Strœve, Polona Itkin, Natalie T. Boelman, and Vishnu Nandan. Collaboration with these researchers has contributed to a significant body of joint work in related scientific areas.

The scientist has published multiple papers in key venues such as The Cryosphere, Environmental Research Letters, Water Resources Research, Ecological Modelling, and Elementa Science of the Anthropocene.

Notable recent papers by Glen E. Liston include:

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice, 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • A Lagrangian Snow-Evolution System for Sea-Ice Applications (SnowModel-LG): Part I-Model Description, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Revisiting the Global Seasonal Snow Classification: An Updated Dataset for Earth System Applications, 2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • A Lagrangian Snow Evolution System for Sea Ice Applications (SnowModel-LG): Part II-Analyses, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Best Publications

  • RAMS 2001: Current status and future directions

    William R. Cotton;R. A. Pielke;R. L. Walko;G. E. Liston

  • Winter Biological Processes Could Help Convert Arctic Tundra to Shrubland

    Matthew Sturm;Josh Schimel;Gary Michaelson;Jeffrey M. Welker

  • A Seasonal Snow Cover Classification System for Local to Global Applications

    Matthew Sturm;Jon Holmgren;Glen E. Liston

  • Snow-Shrub Interactions in Arctic Tundra: A Hypothesis with Climatic Implications

    Matthew Sturm;Joseph P. Mcfadden;Glen E. Liston;F. Stuart Chapin

  • A meteorological distribution system for high-resolution terrestrial modeling (MicroMet)

    Glen E. Liston;Kelly Elder

  • A Distributed Snow-Evolution Modeling System (SnowModel)

    Glen E. Liston;Kelly Elder

  • Estimating Snow Water Equivalent Using Snow Depth Data and Climate Classes

    Matthew Sturm;Brian Taras;Glen E. Liston;Chris Derksen

  • A snow-transport model for complex terrain

    Glen E. Liston;Matthew Sturm

  • Land-atmosphere energy exchange in Arctic tundra and boreal forest: available data and feedbacks to climate.

    Werner Eugster;Wayne R Rouse;Roger A. Pielke Sr;Joseph P. Mcfadden

  • Representing Subgrid Snow Cover Heterogeneities in Regional and Global Models

    Glen E. Liston

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition

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  • The Changing Cryosphere: Pan-Arctic Snow Trends (1979–2009)

    Glen E. Liston;Christopher A. Hiemstra

  • Changing snow and shrub conditions affect albedo with global implications

    Matthew Sturm;Tom Douglas;Charles Racine;Glen E. Liston

  • Instruments and Methods Simulating complex snow distributions in windy environments using SnowTran-3D

    Glen E. Liston;Robert B. Haehnel;Matthew Sturm;Christopher A. Hiemstra

  • Interrelationships among Snow Distribution, Snowmelt, and Snow Cover Depletion: Implications for Atmospheric, Hydrologic, and Ecologic Modeling

    Glen E. Liston

  • Local Advection of Momentum, Heat, and Moisture during the Melt of Patchy Snow Covers

    Glen E. Liston

  • Modelled changes in arctic tundra snow, energy and moisture fluxes due to increased shrubs

    Glen E. Liston;Joseph P. Mcfadden;Matthew Sturm;Roger A. Pielke

  • The Influence of Anthropogenic Landscape Changes on Weather in South Florida

    R A Pielke Sr;R L Walko;L T Steyaert;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS): Description and initial results

    Eugene S. Takle;William J. Gutowski;Raymond W. Arritt;Zaitao Pan

  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Xavier Fettweis;Stefan Hofer;Stefan Hofer;Uta Krebs-Kanzow;Charles Amory

  • Winter Precipitation Patterns in Arctic Alaska Determined from a Blowing-Snow Model and Snow-Depth Observations

    Glen E. Liston;Matthew Sturm

  • Snow hydrology of a headwater Arctic basin: 1. Physical measurements and process studies

    Douglas L. Kane;Larry D. Hinzman;Carl S. Benson;Glen E. Liston

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian H. Mernild
Sebastian H. Mernild University of Southern Denmark
Matthew Sturm
Matthew Sturm University of Alaska Fairbanks
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Julienne Stroeve
Julienne Stroeve University of Manitoba
Bent Hasholt
Bent Hasholt University of Copenhagen
Kelly Elder
Kelly Elder US Forest Service
Konrad Steffen
Konrad Steffen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jan-Gunnar Winther
Jan-Gunnar Winther Norwegian Polar Institute
Sebastian Gerland
Sebastian Gerland Norwegian Polar Institute
Chris Derksen
Chris Derksen Environment and Climate Change Canada

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