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Balk, Ben, Kelly Elder, and Jill Baron. 1998. Estimating the spatial distribution of snow water equivalence in a mountain watershed using geostatistical methods. Pp. 100-111 in: C.R. Troendle, ed. Western Snow Conference Proceedings, Snowbird, UT. April 1998.

Balk, B. 1999. Statistical methods for spatial modeling of snow distirbution in a Colorado Front Range watershed M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Earth Resources, Colorado State University. 236 pp.

Balk, B.C., and K. Elder. 2000. Combining binary decision tree and geostatistical methods to estimate snow distribution in a mountain watershed. Water Resources Research 36:13-26.

Baron, J. and P.M. Walthall. 1985. The nature of precipitation, soil and surface water chemistry in a subalpine ecosystem. ch. 42, pp. 497-509 in: D.E. Caldwell, J.A. Brierly and C.L. Brierly, eds. PLANETARY ECOLOGY. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. New York.

Baron, J., D.R. Beeson, S.A. Zary, P.M. Walthall, W.L. Lindsay and D.M. Swift. 1985. Long-term research into the effects of atmospheric deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park; summary report 1980-1984. NPS Technical Report 84-ROMO-2. 43 pp.

Baron, J. ed. 1992. Biogeochemistry of a subalpine ecosystem: Loch Vale Watershed. Ecological Study Series #90. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Baron, J. and A. S. Denning. 1993. The influence of mountain meteorology on precipitation chemistry at low and high elevations of the Colorado Front Range, USA. Atmos. Environ. 27A:2337-2349.

Baron J., R.A. Pielke, W.J. Parton, D.S. Ojima, T.B. Kirchner, S.W. Running, and T.G.F. Kittel. 1992. Dynamic land surface/atmosphere parameterization for the South Platte River drainage. pp. 273-283 in: R.Herrmann, ed.: Am. Water Resour. Assoc. Symposium Proceedings: Managing Water Resources During Global Change.

Baron, Jill, Roger Pielke, Bill Parton, Larry Band, and Steve Running. 1994. Dynamic land surface/atmospheric parameterization at different spatial scales in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. pp. 34-36 in: P.H. Gleick, A. Rango, and K. Cooley, eds., Proceedings of a workshop on the use of hydrological models for evaluating the impacts of climate change in snowmelt water supply basins, Santa Fe, NM 1993. Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, CA 94612. 54 pp.

Baron, J.S., M.D. Hartman, L.E. Band, and R.L. Lammers. 1998. Sensitivity of high elevation Rocky Mountain watersheds to climate change. Pp. 269-273 in: Proceedings of the Fifth National Watershed Conference, Reno NV, May 1997.

Baron, J.S., Heather M. Rueth, Alexander M. Wolfe, Koren R. Nydick, Eric J. Allstott, J. Toby Minear, and Brenda Moraska.. 2000. Ecosystem Responses to Nitrogen Deposition in the Colorado Front Range. Ecosystems 3: 352-368.

Baron, J.S., K.R. Nydick, H.M. Rueth, B.M. Lafrancois, and A.P. Wolfe. 2003. High elevation ecosystem responses to atmospheric deposition of nitrogen in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. Global Change and Mountain Regions: A State of Knowledge Overview. Ulli M. Huber, Harald K.M. Bugmann, and M.A. Reasoner, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. In press.

Bigelow, D.S., A.S. Denning, and J. Baron. 1990. Differences between Nipher and Alter-shielded Universal Belfort precipitation gages at two Colorado deposition monitoring sites. Environ. Sci. and Technol. 24:758-760.

Burns, D.A. 2002. The effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Southern Wyoming - a synthesis and critical assessment of published results. Water-resources-investigations report 02-4066, U.S. Geological Survey, Troy New York.

Burns, D.A. 2003. The effects of atmospheric nitrogen depostion in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and southern Wyoming, USA-- a critical review. Environmental Pollution 127: 257-269, U.S. Geological Survey, Troy, New York.

Campbell, D.H., D.W.Clow, G.P. Ingersoll, M.A. Mast, N.E. Spahr, and J.T. Turk. 1995. Nitrogen deposition and release in alpine watersheds, Loch Vale, Colorado, USA. pp. 243-254 in: K.A. Tonnesson, M.W. Williams, and M. Tranter, eds. Biogeochemistry of seasonally snow-covered catchments. IASH Publication No 228: International Association of Hydrologic Sciences Press, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK.

Cline, D.W. 1994. Modeling the spatial distribution and temporal patterns of alpine and subalpine snowmelt. Proceedings of the 1993 Eastern/Western Snow Conference.

Cline, D. 1995. Snow surface energy exchanges and snowmelt at a continental alpine site. Biogeochemistry of Seasonally Snow-Covered Catchments, IAHS Publ. No. 228, pp. 157-166.

Cline, D.W., 1995. Studies supporting the development of spatially distributed, physically based snowmelt models for continental alpine areas. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado Department of Geography.

Cline, D.W. 1997. Effect of seasonality of snow accumulation and melt on snow surface energy exchanges at a contintental alpine site. J. Appl. Meteor. 36: 32-51.

Cline, D.W. 1997. Snow surface energy exchanges and snowmelt at a continental, midlatitude alpine site. Wat. Resour. Resear. 33: 689-701.

Clow, D.W. and M.A. Mast. 1995. Composition of precipitation, bulk deposition, and runoff at a granitic bedrock catchment in the Loch Vale Watershed. pp. 235-242 in: K.A. Tonnesson, M.W. Williams, and M. Tranter, eds. Biogeochemistry of seasonally snow-covered catchments. IAHS Publication No 228: International Association of Hydrologic Sciences Press, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK.

Clow, D.W., J.O. Sickman, R.G. Striegl, D.B. Krabbenhoft, J.G. Elliott, M. Dornblaser, D.A. Roth, D.H. Campbell. 2003. Changes in the chemistry of lakes and precipitation in high elevation national parks in the western United States, 1985-1999. Water Resources Research 39: 6: 1171, doi, 10.1029/2002wr001533.

Denning, A.S. Baron, J., M.A. Mast, and M.A. Arthur. 1991. Hydrologic pathways and chemical composition of runoff during snowmelt in Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado USA. Wat. Air, Soil, Pollut. 59:107-123.

Fenn, M.E., M. Poth, J.D. Aber, J.S. Baron, B.T. Bormann, D.W. Johnson, A.D. Lemly, S.G. McNulty, D.F. Ryan, and R. Stottlemyer. 1998. Nitrogen excess in North American ecosystems: a review of predisposing factors, geographic extent, ecosystem responses, and management strategies. Ecological Applications.8:706-733.

Fenn,M.E., R. Haeuber, G.S. Tonnesen, J.S. Baron, S Grossman-Clarke, D. Hope, D.A. Jaffe, S. Copeland, L. Geiser, H. M. Rueth, AND J.O. Sickman. 2003. Nitrogen Emissions, Deposition and Monitoring in the Western United States. BioScience 53:391-403.

Fenn, M.E. J.S. Baron, E.B. Allen, H. M. Rueth, K.R. Nydick, L. Geiser, W.D. Bowman, J. O. Sickman, T.Meixner, and D. W. Johnson. 2003, Ecological Effects of Nitrogen Deposition in the Western United States. BioScience 53:404-420.

Gibson, J.H. and J. Baron. 1984. Acidic deposition in the Rocky Mountain region. pp. 29-42 in: T.A.Colbert and R.L. Cuany, eds. Proceedings: High-Altitude Revegetation Workshop No. 6. Information Series No. 53. Colorado Water Resources Research Institute. Colorado State University.

Hartman, M.D., J. Baron, R.B. Lammers, D. Cline, L.E. Band, G.L. Liston, and C. Tague. 1999. Simulations of snow distribution and hydrology in a mountain basin. Water Resources Research 35:1587-1603.

Hartman, M.D., J.S. Baron, and D.S. Ojima. 1995. Simulations of snow distribution and hydrology in a mountain basin. GPAC workshop proceedings in computer applications in water management.

Heit, M., R. Klusek and J. Baron. 1984. Evidence of deposition of anthropogenic pollutants in remote Rocky Mountain lakes. Water, Air, Soil Poll. 22:403-416.

Ingersoll, G.P., D.H. Campbell, and N.E. Spahr. 1996. Snow depth variability in a small alpine watershed. Proceedings of the Western Snow Conference, 64th Annual Meeting, Bend, Oregon, April 15-18. Colorado State University. pp 159-162.

Ingersoll, G.P. 1995. Estimating snowmelt contribution to the seasonal water balance in a small alpine watershed. M.S. Thesis, University of Colorado Department of Geography.

Kendall, C., D.H. Campbell, D.A. Burns, J.B. Shanley, S.R. Silva, and C.C.Y.Chang. 1995. Tracing sources of nitrate in snowmelt runoff using the oxygen and nitrogen isotopic compositions of nitrate. pp. 339-348 in: K.A. Tonnesson, M.W. Williams, and M. Tranter, eds. Biogeochemistry of seasonally snow-covered catchments. IASH Publication No 228: International Association of Hydrologic Sciences Press, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK.

Kendall, C., Silva, S.R., Chang, C.C.Y, Burns, D.A., Campbell, D.H. and Shanley, J.B. 1995, Use of the d18O and d15N of nitrate to determine sources of nitrate in early spring runoff in forested catchments, in Isotopes in water resources management, proceedings of International Atomic Energy Agency Symposium, Vienna, Austria, March 20-24, 1995, IAEA-SM-336/29, pp.167-176.

Mast, M.A., J.T. Turk, G.P. Ingersoll, D.W. Clow, and C.L. Kester. 2001. Use of stable sulfur isotopes to identify sources of sulfate in Rocky Mountain snowpacks. Atmospheric Environment 35:3303-3313.

McLaughlin, P.W. 1988. The effect of storm trajectory on precipitation chemistry in Rocky Mountain National Park. M.S. Thesis. Colorado State University. 70 pp.

Michel, R.L, D.H. Campbell, D.W. Clow, and J.T. Turk. 2000. Timescales for migration of atmospherically-derived sulphate through an alpine watershed, Loch Vale, Colorado. Water Resources Research 36:2736.

Nanus, L., D.H. Campbell, G. P. Ingersoll, D.W. Clow, M.A. Mast. 2003. Atmospheric Deposition Maps for the Rocky Mountians. US Geological Survey, Denver, CO.

Turk, J.T., H.E. Taylor, G.P. Ingersoll, K.A. Tonnessen, D.W. Clow, M.A. Mast, D.H. Campbell, and J.M. Melack. 2001. Major-ion chemistry of the Rocky Mountain snowpack, USA. Atmos. Environ. 25:3957-3966.