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Richard Lee Armstrong

Richard Lee Armstrong

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Earth Science

D-Index
67
Citations
21905
World Ranking
1193
National Ranking
55

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard Lee Armstrong was affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focused on Environmental Science, with specific contributions in several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, General Energy, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist contributed to various topics within their field of study, including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Global Energy Security and Policy
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Russia and Soviet political economy
  • Water Resources and Management

Throughout their career, Armstrong published papers in several academic venues, notably:

  • Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Forests

Their recent academic papers included:

  • "Biofuel Burning Influences Refractory Black Carbon Concentrations in Seasonal Snow at Lower Elevations of the Dudh Koshi River Basin of Nepal," published in 2020 in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "CURRENT STATE OF THE FUEL AND ENERGY SECTOR AND PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN ENERGY IN CENTRAL ASIA," published in 2020 in Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories
  • "COMPARATIVE ESTIMATION OF RIVER RUNOFF FORMATION IN THE CLIMATIC ZONES OF GORN PAMIR," published in 2020 in Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories
  • "Assessing the Uncertainty of Traditional Sample-Based Forest Inventories in Mixed and Single Species Conifer Systems Using a Digital Forest Twin," published in 2025 in Forests

Frequent collaborators during Armstrong's career included:

  • I. Sh. Normatov
  • P. I. Normatov
  • Alia L. Khan
  • Karl Rittger
  • Peng Xian

Among the honors received, Armstrong was awarded the title of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1968.

Best Publications

  • The Physics of Glaciers

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  • Characteristics of the western United States snowpack from snowpack telemetry (SNOTEL) data

    Mark C. Serreze;Martyn P. Clark;Richard L. Armstrong;David A. McGinnis

  • Sevier Orogenic Belt in Nevada and Utah

    Richard Lee Armstrong

  • A model for the evolution of strontium and lead isotopes in a dynamic Earth

    Richard Lee Armstrong

  • Radiogenic isotopes: the case for crustal recycling on a near-steady-state no-continental-growth Earth

    R. L. Armstrong

  • The GLIMS geospatial glacier database: A new tool for studying glacier change ☆

    Bruce Raup;Adina E. Racoviteanu;Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa;Christopher Helm

  • Mesozoic and early Cenozoic magmatic evolution of the Canadian Cordillera

    Richard Lee Armstrong

  • Snow depth derived from passive microwave remote-sensing data in China

    Xin Li;Rui Jin;Richard Armstrong;Tingjun Zhang

  • K-Ar dating, Quaternary and Neogene volcanic rocks of the Snake River Plain, Idaho

    R. L. Armstrong;William P. Leeman;Harold E. Malde

  • Rb-Sr and K-Ar geochronometry of Mesozoic granitic rocks and their Sr isotopic composition, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho

    Richard Lee Armstrong;William H. Taubeneck;Peter O. Hales

  • The persistent myth of crustal growth

    R. L. Armstrong

  • Geochronology and thermal history of the Coast Plutonic Complex, near Prince Rupert, British Columbia

    T. Mark Harrison;Richard Lee Armstrong;C. W. Naeser;J. E. Harakal

  • CORDILLERAN METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES -From Arizona to Southern Canada

    Richard Lee Armstrong

  • Evolving Geographic Patterns of Cenozoic Magmatism in the North American Cordillera: The Temporal and Spatial Association of Magmatism and Metamorphic Core Complexes

    Richard Lee Armstrong;Peter Ward

  • Challenges and recommendations in mapping of glacier parameters from space: results of the 2008 Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) workshop, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    Adina E. Racoviteanu;Frank Paul;Bruce Raup;Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa

  • Cenozoic volcanic rocks of eastern China — secular and geographic trends in chemistry and strontium isotopic composition

    Xinghua Zhou;Richard Lee Armstrong

  • The Use of Strontium-87/Strontium-86 Ratios to Measure Atmospheric Transport into Forested Watersheds

    William C. Graustein;Richard L. Armstrong

  • Recent northern hemisphere snow extent: A comparison of data derived from visible and microwave satellite sensors

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  • Runoff from glacier ice and seasonal snow in High Asia: separating melt water sources in river flow

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  • Low-Angle (Denudation) Faults, Hinterland of the Sevier Orogenic Belt, Eastern Nevada and Western Utah

    Richard Lee Armstrong

  • Granitoids of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica; implications of chemical and isotopic variations to regional crustal structure and tectonics

    S. G. Borg;E. Stump;Bruce W. Chappell;M. T. McCulloch

  • Paricutin re-examined: a classic example of crustal assimilation in calc-alkaline magma

    A. R. McBirney;H. P. Taylor;R. L. Armstrong

  • Potassium-argon dating of Franciscan metamorphic rocks

    John Suppe;Richard Lee Armstrong

  • Petrochemistry and Sr, Pb, and Nd isotopic geochemistry of early precambrian rocks, Wutaishan and Taihangshan areas, China

    Min Sun;Richard Lee Armstrong;Richard St. J. Lambert

  • Snow depths and grain-size relationships with relevance for passive microwave studies

    Richard L. Armstrong;Alfred Chang;Albert Rango;Edward Josberger

  • Geochronology of Tertiary igneous rocks, eastern Basin and Range Province, western Utah, eastern Nevada, and vicinity, U.S.A.

    Richard Lee Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

John Suppe
John Suppe University of Houston
Richard M. Friedman
Richard M. Friedman University of British Columbia
Karl K. Turekian
Karl K. Turekian Yale University
T. Mark Harrison
T. Mark Harrison University of California, Los Angeles
Gavin P. Reynolds
Gavin P. Reynolds Sheffield Hallam University
Nick Mortimer
Nick Mortimer GNS Science
Edwin H. McKee
Edwin H. McKee United States Geological Survey
Randall R. Parrish
Randall R. Parrish University of Portsmouth
Henry J. B. Dick
Henry J. B. Dick Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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