Publications

Model Development and Description

Liang, X., D.P. Lettenmaier, E.F. Wood, and S.J. Burges, 1994, A simple hydrologically based model of land surface water and energy fluxes for GSMs, J. Geophys. Res., 99(D7), 14,415-14,428.

Leopold, L.B., and T. Maddock, 1953, The hydraulic geometry of channels and some physiographic implications, U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper, 252.

Lohmann, D., R. Nolte-Holuber, and E. Raschke, 1996: A large-scale horizontal routing model to be coupled to land surface parameterization schemes, Tellus, 48(A), 708-721.

Mohseni, O., H.G. Stefan, and T.R. Erickson, 1998, A nonlinear regression model for weekly stream temperatures, Water Resour. Res., 34(10), 2685-2693, doi:10.1029/98WR01877

Sun, N., J. Yearsley, N. Voisin, and D.P. Lettenmaier (2015): A spatially distributed model for the assessment of land use impacts on stream temperature in small urban watersheds, Hydrological Processes. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10363.

Yearsley J. (2012): A grid-based approach for simulating stream temperature. Wat. Resour. Res., 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011WR011515.

Yearsley J. (2009): A semi-Lagrangian water temperature model for advection-dominated river systems, Wat. Resour. Res.,http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1029/2008WR007629.

Model Applications

Cao, Q. N. Sun, J. Yearsley, B. Nijssen, and D. P. Lettenmaier (2016): Climate and land cover effects on the temperature of Puget Sound streams, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10784.

van Vliet, M.T.H., W.H.P. Franssen, J. Yearsley, F. Ludwig, I. Haddeland, D. P. Lettenmaier, and P. Kabat (2013): Global river discharge and water temperature under climate change, Global Environmental Change,http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.11.002.

van Vliet, M.T.H., J. Yearsley, W.H.P. Franssen, F. Ludwig, I. Haddeland, D.P. Lettenmaier, and P. Kabat (2012): Coupled daily streamflow and water temperature modelling in large river basins, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 9, 8335-8374, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-4303-2012.

van Vliet, M.T.H., J. Yearsley, F. Ludwig, S. Vogele, D.P. Lettenmaier, and P. Kabat (2012): Vulnerability of US and European electricity supply to climate change, Nature Climate Change, http://dx.doi.10.1029/2008WR00762910.1038/nclimate1546.

Yearsley J. (2012): A grid-based approach for simulating stream temperature, Water Resour. Res., 48, W03506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011WR011515.

Yearsley J. (2009): A semi-Lagrangian water temperature model for advection-dominated river systems, Water Resour. Res., 45, W12405,http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008WR007629.

Connor, W.P., H.L. Burge, J.Yearsley and T.C. Bjornn (2003): Influence of flow and temperature on survival of wild subyearling Fall Chinook in the Snake River. North Amer. Journ. of Fisheries Management, 23(2):362-375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1577/1548-8675(2003)023%3C0362:IOFATO%3E2.0.CO;2.

Technical Reports

Yearsley J. (2003): A preliminary analysis of the thermal regime of Dworshak Reservoir, EPA 910-R-03-011.

Yearsley J. (2003): Columbia River Temperature Assessment: Simulation of the thermal regime of Lake Roosevelt, EPA 910-03-003.

Yearsley J. (2003): Developing a Temperature Total Maximum Daily Load for the Columbia and Snake Rivers: Simulation Methods, EPA 910-R-03-003.

Yearsley J. (2001): Application of a 1-D Temperature Model to the Columbia River System & Application of a 1-D Temperature Model to the Columbia River System - Appendix B Model Tests.

Yearsley J., and C.M. Falter (2002): Analysis of ecological risk in the mid-Snake River using simulation methods. Appendix D in Ecological risk assessment for the Middle Snake River, EPA/600/R-01/017.