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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Kristine M. Larson is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans several areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Geophysics.

The main topics of the scientist's work include:

  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • GNSS positioning and interference
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Kristine M. Larson has contributed to several research publications, some of which are as follows:

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Dynamic Sea Level Variation From GNSS: 2020 Shumagin Earthquake Tsunami Resonance and Hurricane Laura, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Measuring Coastal Absolute Sea-Level Changes Using GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • Novel Quantification of Shallow Sediment Compaction by GPS Interferometric Reflectometry and Implications for Flood Susceptibility, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Raspberry Pi Reflector (RPR): A Low-Cost Water-Level Monitoring System Based on GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry, 2022, Water Resources Research

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Larson include:

  • Makan A. Karegar
  • Fernando Jaramillo
  • Saeid Aminjafari
  • Pascal Castellazzi
  • Ayan Santos Fleischmann

Kristine M. Larson has published regularly in prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Remote Sensing
  • The Cryosphere
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

The scientist has been recognized by major scientific organizations, including election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 and being named Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Present-Day Crustal Deformation in China Constrained by Global Positioning System Measurements

    Qi Wang;Pei-Zhen Zhang;Jeffrey T. Freymueller;Roger Bilham

  • Surface melt-induced acceleration of Greenland ice-sheet flow

    H. Jay Zwally;Waleed Abdalati;Tom Herring;Kristine Larson

  • GPS measurements of present-day convergence across the Nepal Himalaya

    Roger Bilham;Kristine Larson;Jeffrey Freymueller

  • State of the Art in Large‐Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring

    Tyson E. Ochsner;Michael Harold Cosh;Richard H. Cuenca;Wouter Dorigo

  • Use of GPS receivers as a soil moisture network for water cycle studies

    Kristine M. Larson;Eric E. Small;Ethan D. Gutmann;Andria L. Bilich

  • Kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision zone from GPS measurements

    Kristine M. Larson;Roland Bürgmann;Roger Bilham;Jeffrey T. Freymueller

  • Crustal displacements due to continental water loading

    T. van Dam;J. Wahr;P. C. D. Milly;P. C. D. Milly;A. B. Shmakin

  • Can we measure snow depth with GPS receivers

    Kristine M. Larson;Ethan D. Gutmann;Valery U. Zavorotny;John J. Braun

  • Using 1-Hz GPS data to measure deformations caused by the denali fault earthquake

    Kristine M. Larson;Kristine M. Larson;Kristine M. Larson;Paul Bodin;Paul Bodin;Paul Bodin;Joan Gomberg;Joan Gomberg;Joan Gomberg

  • Using GPS multipath to measure soil moisture fluctuations: initial results

    Kristine M. Larson;Eric E. Small;Ethan Gutmann;Andria Bilich

  • Global Plate Velocities from the Global Positioning System

    Kristine M. Larson;Jeffrey T. Freymueller;Steven Philipsen

  • Space geodetic measurement of crustal deformation in central and southern California, 1984–1992

    Kurt L. Feigl;Duncan C. Agnew;Yehuda Bock;Danan Dong

  • Modified sidereal filtering: Implications for high‐rate GPS positioning

    Kyuhong Choi;Andria Bilich;Kristine M. Larson;Penina Axelrad

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • Geodetic evidence for a low slip rate in the Altyn Tagh fault system

    Rebecca Bendick;Roger Bilham;Roger Bilham;Jeffrey Freymueller;Kristine Larson

  • GPS Multipath and Its Relation to Near-Surface Soil Moisture Content

    K.M. Larson;J.J. Braun;E.E. Small;V.U. Zavorotny

  • The motion and active deformation of India

    J. Paul;R. Bürgmann;V. K. Gaur;R. Bilham

  • Coastal sea level measurements using a single geodetic GPS receiver

    Kristine M. Larson;Johan S. Löfgren;Rüdiger Haas

  • A large silent earthquake in the Guerrero seismic gap, Mexico

    Vladimir Kostoglodov;Shri Krishna Singh;Jose Antonio Santiago;Sara Ivonne Franco

  • A Physical Model for GPS Multipath Caused by Land Reflections: Toward Bare Soil Moisture Retrievals

    V.U. Zavorotny;K.M. Larson;J.J. Braun;E.E. Small

  • Finding the repeat times of the GPS constellation

    Duncan Carr Agnew;Kristine M. Larson

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric E. Small
Eric E. Small University of Colorado Boulder
John Wahr
John Wahr University of Colorado Boulder
Roger Bilham
Roger Bilham University of Colorado Boulder
Vladimir Kostoglodov
Vladimir Kostoglodov National Autonomous University of Mexico
Jeffrey T. Freymueller
Jeffrey T. Freymueller Michigan State University
Ethan Gutmann
Ethan Gutmann National Center for Atmospheric Research
Tonie van Dam
Tonie van Dam University of Utah
Geoffrey Blewitt
Geoffrey Blewitt University of Nevada Reno
Nicholas Pedatella
Nicholas Pedatella National Center for Atmospheric Research

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