Summer Rupper

Dr. Summer Rupper
Geography
University of Utah
, UT
United States of America


E-mail: summer.rupper(at)geog.utah.edu
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of Summer Rupper (up to ten) :
Maurer, J., S. Rupper, 2015. Tapping into the Hexagon spy imagery database: a new automated workflow for geomorphic change detection. Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 108, 113-127.

Rupper, S., W. Christensen, B. Bickmore, L. Burgener, L. Koenig, M. Koutnik C. Miège, R. Forster, 2015. The effects of dating uncertainties on net accumulation estimates from ice cores. Journal of Glaciology, 61(225), 163-172.

Burgener, L., S. Rupper, L. Koenig, R. Forster, W. Christensen, J. Williams, M. Koutnik, C. Miege, E. Steig, D. Keeler, L. Riley, 2013. An observed negative trend in West Antarctic accumulation rates from 1975 to 2010: Evidence from new observed and simulated records. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 1-12.

Steig, E., Q. Ding, J. White, M. Kuttel, S. Rupper, T. Neumann, P. Neff, A. Gallant, P. Mayewski, K. Taylor, G. Hoffmann, D. Dixon, S. Schoenemann, B. Markle, D. Schneider, T. Fudge, A. Schauer, R. Teel, B. Vaughn, L. Burgener*, J. Williams*, E. Korotkikh, 2013. Recent climate and ice-sheet changes in West Antarctica compared with the past 2,000 years. Nature Geoscience, 6, 372-375.

Rupper, S., S. Schaefer, L. Burgener, L. Koenig, K. Tsering, E. Cook, 2012. Sensitivity and response of Bhutanese glaciers to atmospheric warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, 19, doi: 10.1029/2012GL053010.

Thomas*, A.L., S. Rupper, W. Christensen, 2011. Characterizing the statistical properties and interhemispheric distribution of Dansgaard-Oeschger events. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D03103.

Vizciano, M., S. Rupper, J. Chiang, 2010. Mechanisms of Glacial Onset 2.75 Ma. Paleoceanography, 25, PA2205.

Rupper, S., G.H. Roe, and A. Gillespie, 2009. Spatial patterns of glacier advance and retreat in Central Asia in the Holocene. Quaternary Research, 72(3): 337-346.

Rupper, S., and G.H. Roe, 2008. Glacier changes and regional climate – a mass and energy balance approach. Journal of Climate, 21(20): 5384-5401.

Rupper, S., E.J. Steig, and G.H. Roe, 2004. The relationship between snow accumulation at Mt. Logan, Yukon, and climate variability in the North Pacific. Journal of Climate, 17 (24): 4724-4739.


Expertise of Summer Rupper:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeExpert Type
Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic AtmosphereClimate
Topic CryosphereCryosphere
Glaciers
Polar Ice Sheets/ Sea Ice
Mountain Research InitiativeIntegrated model-based studies of environmental change in diff. mountain regions
Process studies along altitudinal gradients and in associated headwater basins

Last update: 10/28/15
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