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Kelly Elder is a researcher affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States, focusing on environmental and earth sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including atmospheric science, ecology, water science and technology, global and planetary change, and management, monitoring, policy, and law. Their research is situated primarily within the broader domains of earth and planetary sciences as well as environmental science.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Indigenous studies and ecology
  • Hydrology and sediment transport processes

Kelly Elder has published in various academic venues with a frequency notably in The Cryosphere, Hydrological Processes, and Scientific Data. Other publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Arctic Science

Some recent papers by Kelly Elder include:

  • "A Lagrangian Snow-Evolution System for Sea-Ice Applications (SnowModel-LG): Part I-Model Description," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "Connecting understandings of weather and climate: steps towards co-production of knowledge and collaborative environmental management in Inuit Nunangat," 2020, Arctic Science
  • "Quantifying effects of snow depth on caribou winter range selection and movement in Arctic Alaska," 2021, Movement Ecology
  • "Within-Stand Boundary Effects on Snow Water Equivalent Distribution in Forested Areas," 2020, ScholarWorks (Boise State University)
  • "Collaborative wildlife-snow science: Integrating wildlife and snow expertise to improve research and management," 2022, Ecosphere

Kelly Elder frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including:

  • Hans-Peter Marshall
  • Glen E. Liston
  • Adele K. Reinking
  • Sourav Mukherjee
  • Devendra M. Amatya

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Snow accumulation and distribution in an Alpine Watershed

    Kelly Elder;Jeff Dozier;Joel Michaelsen

  • Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2)

    Nick Rutter;Richard Essery;John Pomeroy;Nuria Altimir

  • Spatial Snow Modeling of Wind-Redistributed Snow Using Terrain-Based Parameters

    Adam Winstral;Kelly Elder;Robert E. Davis

  • An Improved Snow Scheme for the ECMWF Land Surface Model: Description and Offline Validation

    Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Pedro Viterbo;Pedro M. A. Miranda

  • Comparison of spatial interpolation methods for estimating snow distribution in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

    Jennifer Erxleben;Kelly Elder;Robert Davis

  • Fractal Distribution of Snow Depth from Lidar Data

    Jeffrey S. Deems;Steven R. Fassnacht;Kelly J. Elder

  • SNOWMIP2: an evaluation of forest snow process simulations.

    Richard Essery;Nick Rutter;John Pomeroy;Robert Baxter

  • Estimating the spatial distribution of snow water equivalence in a montane watershed

    Kelly Elder;Walter Rosenthal;Robert E. Davis

  • Carbon limitation of soil respiration under winter snowpacks: potential feedbacks between growing season and winter carbon fluxes

    Paul D. Brooks;Diane McKnight;Kelly Elder

  • Topographic, meteorologic, and canopy controls on the scaling characteristics of the spatial distribution of snow depth fields

    Ernesto Trujillo;Jorge A. Ramírez;Kelly J. Elder

  • Combining binary decision tree and geostatistical methods to estimate snow distribution in a mountain watershed

    Benjamin Balk;Kelly Elder

  • Ecosystem Processes and Human Influences Regulate Streamflow Response to Climate Change at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites

    Julia A. Jones;Irena F. Creed;Kendra L. Hatcher;Robert J. Warren

  • Changing forest water yields in response to climate warming: results from long‐term experimental watershed sites across North America

    Irena F. Creed;Adam T. Spargo;Julia A. Jones;Jim M. Buttle

  • International snow science workshop

    Kelly Elder

  • A Lagrangian Snow-Evolution System for Sea-Ice Applications (SnowModel-LG): Part I—Model Description

    Glen E. Liston;Polona Itkin;Julienne Stroeve;Julienne Stroeve;Mark Tschudi

  • Changes in transpiration and foliage growth in lodgepole pine trees following mountain pine beetle attack and mechanical girdling

    Robert M. Hubbard;Charles C. Rhoades;Kelly Elder;Jose Negron

  • Interannual Consistency in Fractal Snow Depth Patterns at Two Colorado Mountain Sites

    Jeffrey S. Deems;Steven R. Fassnacht;Kelly J. Elder

  • Hydrologic characteristics and water balance of an Alpine Basin in the Sierra Nevada

    Richard Kattelmann;Kelly Elder

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Peter Marshall
Hans-Peter Marshall Boise State University
Charles C. Rhoades
Charles C. Rhoades US Forest Service
Glen E. Liston
Glen E. Liston Colorado State University
Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Robert M. Hubbard
Robert M. Hubbard US Forest Service
Ludovic Brucker
Ludovic Brucker National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
M. R. Adams
M. R. Adams University of Illinois at Chicago
Stephen D. Sebestyen
Stephen D. Sebestyen US Forest Service
Noah P. Molotch
Noah P. Molotch University of Colorado Boulder
Karl W. Birkeland
Karl W. Birkeland US Forest Service

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