Publications


In preparation:


  1. • Burke, E.E., and G.H. Roe, 2010: The persistence of memory in the climatic forcing of glaciers, in preparation.


  1. • Headley, R., G.H. Roe, and B. Hallet, 2010: Comparing observed and modeled velocities in Seward throat: implications for erosion beneath fast-moving ice streams, in preparation.


  1. • Headley, R., and G.H. Roe, 2010: Analytical solution of glacier-bed profiles, and comparison with observations, in preparation.


  1. • Roe, G.H., and D.S. Battisti, 2010: Knowability and no ability in climate and earth sciences., in preparation.


  1. • Baker, M.B., and G.H. Roe, and K.C. Armour, 2010: How sensitive is climate sensitivity? In preparation. (pdf)


  1. • Minder, J.R., D.R. Durran, and G.H. Roe, 2010: Mesoscale controls on mountainside snowline. In preparation.



Submitted:


  1. • Roe, G.H., and Y. Bauman, 2010: Should the climate tail wag the policy dog? In preparation. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., 2010: What do glaciers tell us about climate variability and climate change? submitted. (pdf)


  1. • Armour, K., G.H. Roe, 2010: Climate commitment in an uncertain world, submitted.(pdf)


  1. • Pendergrass, A.G., G.J. Hakim, D.S. Battisti, and G.H. Roe, 2010: Coupled mixed-layer temperature predictability for climate reconstruction, submitted. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., 2010: Knowability and no ability in climate projections. Report prepared for the Environmental Protection Agency, submitted.


Published/in press (peer-reviewed):


  1. • Feldl, N., G.H. Roe, 2010: Synoptic patterns associated with intense La Nina precipitation in the southwestern United States, Geophys. Res. Lett., in press. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., and M.T. Brandon, 2010: Critical form and feedbacks in mountain belt dynamics: the role of rheology as a tectonic governor. J. Geophys. Res., in press. (pdf)


  1. • Feldl, N., and G.H. Roe, 2010: The shape of daily precipitation in the American West as a function of ENSO.  J. Climate, in press. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., and M.B. Baker, 2010: Notes on a catastrophe - a feedback analysis of snowball earth. J. Climate, 29, 4694-4703. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., and M.B. Baker, 2010: Comment on “Another look at climate sensitivity”. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, in press.


  1. • Dayem, K., P. Molnar, D.S. Battisti, and G.H. Roe, 2010: Lessons learned from the modern monsoon applied to the interpretation of paleoclimate records. Earth. Plan. Sci. Lett., 295, 219–230. (pdf)


  1. • Penny, S.M., G.H. Roe, and D.S. Battisti, 2010: The source of the midwinter suppression of the Pacific storm track. J. Climate, 23, 634-648. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H. and M.A. O’Neal, 2009: The response of glaciers to intrinsic climate variability: observations and models of late Holocene variations. J. Glaciology, 55, 839-854. (pdf)


  1. • Minder, J.R., G.H. Roe, and D.R. Montgomery, 2009: Spatial patterns of rainfall and landslide hazard, Water Resources Research, 45, W04419. (pdf)


  1. • Huybers, K.M., and G.H. Roe, 2009: Glacier response to regional patterns of climate variability. J. Climate, 22, 4606-4620. (pdf)


  1. • Baker, M.B., and G.H. Roe, 2009: The shape of things to come: why is climate change so predictable? J. Climate, 22, 4574-4589. (pdf)


  1. • Rupper, S.B., G.H. Roe, and A. Gillespie, 2009: Spatial patterns of glacier advance and retreat in Central Asia in the Holocene. Quat. Res., 72, 337-346. (pdf)


  1. • Minder, J.R. and G.H. Roe, 2009: Precipitation in mountainous terrain. To appear in the Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. Edited by U.K. Haritashya, V. Singh, and P. Singh, Springer Press. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., 2009: Feedbacks, time scales, and seeing red. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 37: 93-115. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., 2008: On the paleoclimate interpretation of Chinese loess. Quat. Res., 71, 150–161. (pdf)


  1. • Galewsky, J., and G.H. Roe, 2008: Climate over landscapes: The emerging links between geomorphology and the atmospheric sciences. White paper, submitted to the National Research Council. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., K.X. Whipple, J.K. Fletcher, 2008: Feedbacks between climate, erosion, and tectonics in a critical wedge orogen. Amer. J. Sci., 308, 815–842. (pdf)


  1. • Minder, J.R., D.R. Durran, and G.H. Roe, A.M. Anders, 2008: The climatology of small-scale orographic precipitation over the Olympic mountains: Patterns and processes. Quat. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 134, 817-839. (pdf)


  1. • Rennert, K., G.H. Roe, C.M. Bitz, J. Putkonen, and D. Fischer, 2008: Rain-on-snow in the circumpolar Arctic: climatology and impacts. J. Climate, 22, 2302-2315. (pdf)


  1. • Anders, A.M., and G.H. Roe, D.R. Montgomery, and B. Hallet, 2008: Coupled evolution of topography and orographic precipitation in varied climates. Geology, 36, 479-482. (pdf)


  1. • Rupper, S.B., and G.H. Roe, 2008: Glacier changes and regional climate – a mass and energy balance approach. J. Climate, 21, 5384- 5401. (pdf)


  1. • Owen, L.A., G. Thackray, R.S. Anderson, J. Briner, D. Kaufman, G.H. Roe, W. Pfeffer, and C. Yi, 2008: Integrated research on mountain glaciers: Current status, priorities and future prospects. Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.04.019. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., and M.B. Baker, 2007: Why is climate sensitivity so unpredictable? Science, 318, 629-632. (pdf)(supplementary)


  1. • Stolar, D.R., G.H. Roe, and S.D. Willett, 2007: Controls on the patterns of topography and erosion rate in a critical orogen at steady state, J. Geophys. Res., 112, F04002. (pdf)


  1. • Tomkin, J.T., and G.H. Roe, 2007: The response of a glaciated critical wedge orogen to changes in climate. Earth. Plan. Sci. Lett., 262, 385–397. (pdf)


  1. • Anders, A.M., G.H. Roe, D.R. Durran, and J.R. Minder, 2007: Small-scale spatial gradients in climatological precipitation on the Olympic Peninsula. J. Hydromet., 8, 1068-1081. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., 2006: In defense of Milankovitch. Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L24703, doi:10.1029/2006GL027817. (pdf) (auxiliary material)


  1. • Roe, G.H., D. Stolar, and S.D. Willett, 2006: The sensitivity of a critical wedge orogen to climatic and tectonic forcing. in: S.D. Willett, N. Hovius, M. Brandon, D.M. Fisher, (Eds), Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution: Geological Society of America Special Paper 398, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, 227-239. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., and M. Baker, 2006: Microphysical and geometrical controls on the pattern of orographic precipitation. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 861–880. (pdf)


  1. • Stolar, D., G.H. Roe, and S.D. Willett, 2006: Evolution of a critical orogen under various forcing scenarios: findings from a numerical sandbox. in: S.D. Willett, N. Hovius, M. Brandon, D.M. Fisher, (Eds), Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution: Geological Society of America Special Paper 398, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, 240-250. (pdf)


  1. • Anders, A.M., G.H. Roe, B. Hallet, D.R. Montgomery, N. Finnegan, and J. Putkonen, 2006: Spatial patterns of precipitation and topography in the Himalaya. in: S.D. Willett, N. Hovius, M. Brandon, D.M. Fisher, (Eds), Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution: Geological Society of America Special Paper 398, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, 39-53. (pdf)


  1. • Finnegan, N., G.H. Roe, D.R. Montgomery, B. Hallet, 2005: A scaling relationship for channel width in bedrock rivers. Geology, 33, 229-232. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., 2005: Orographic precipitation. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 33: 645-671. (pdf)


  1. • Anders, A.M, G.H. Roe, and D.R. Durran, 2004: Conference notebook Orographic precipitation and the form of mountain ranges. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 85, 498-499. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., and E. J. Steig, 2004: On the characterization of millennial-scale climate variability. J. Climate, 17, 1929-1944. (pdf)


  1. • Bitz, C.M., and G.H. Roe, 2004: A physical explanation for the high rate of sea-ice thinning in the Arctic Ocean. J. Climate, 17, 3623-3632. (pdf)


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


  1. • Roe, G.H., D.R. Montgomery, and B. Hallet, 2003: Orographic climate feedbacks on the relief of mountain ranges. J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi:10.1029/2001JB001521. (pdf)


  1. • Putkonen, J., and G.H. Roe, 2003: Rain-on-snow events, soil temperatures, and the sensitivity of ungulates to climate change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016326. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., 2002: Modeling orographic precipitation over ice sheets: an assessment over Greenland. J. Glaciology, 48, 70-80. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., D.R. Montgomery, and B. Hallet, 2002: Effects of orographic precipitation variations on the concavity of steady-state river profiles. Geology, 30,143-146. (pdf)


  1. • Risbey, J.S., P.J. Lamb, R.L. Miller, M.C. Morgan, and G.H. Roe, 2002: Elucidating the structure of regional climate scenarios by combining synoptic and dynamic guidance and GCM output. J. Climate, 15, 1036-1050. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., and R.S. Lindzen, 2001: The mutual interaction between continental-scale ice sheets and atmospheric stationary waves. J. Climate, 14, 1450-1465. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., and R.S. Lindzen, 2001: A one-dimensional model for the interaction between ice sheets and atmospheric stationary waves. Climate Dynamics, 17, 479-487. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., and M.R. Allen, 1999: Competing explanations for the 100,000-yr ice age cycle. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 2259-2262. (pdf)


  1. • Lindzen, R.S., and G.H. Roe, 1997: The effect of concentrated PV gradients on stationary waves: correction, J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 1815-1818. (pdf)


  1. • Roe, G.H., and R.S. Lindzen, 1996: Baroclinic adjustment in a two level model with barotropic shear, J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 2749-2754. (pdf)